ODDLY ENOUGH

ODDLY ENOUGH

Maine police investigating screams find happy pig

CHINA, Maine

Police responding to reports of screaming coming from a home in Maine didn’t find a victim of domestic violence as they feared. Instead, they found an amorous pig.

State police say a woman called recently after hearing what she believed to be a fight coming from a neighbor’s home in the town of China. The caller said she heard screaming and thought there was a domestic assault.

The Morning Sentinel reported that four state troopers responded and talked to the neighbor. The neighbor explained that she raises pigs and the screaming was coming from an overjoyed male pig that had been placed in a pen with five sows in heat.

Police say there was no assault and no disturbance “other than the screaming male pig.”

2 Tampa Bay women get lost wedding dresses back

ST. PETERSBURG, FLA.

Two Tampa Bay area women are now back in possession of their own wedding dresses nine years after a mix-up got them switched.

The Tampa Bay Times reported Wednesday that Marie Keeney was planning a ceremony to renew her vows with her husband of nine years. Her 8-year-old son, Braden, had asked them to do it so he could be part of the ceremony.

But the planning came to a halt last year when she took the wedding dress out of the storage box and realized it wasn’t hers. She was devastated and canceled the ceremony.

“It made me cry,” she said. “And I never cry.”

But Keeney, 45, began investigating.

She contacted the dry cleaners that did the preservation and was told the task had been outsourced to a New York company, Wedding Gown Preservation.

She felt her dress was lost but wanted to get the dress she had back to its proper owner. She posted photos on Facebook and contacted the media, in hopes that the owner would learn about the dress. No one came forward.

Then Wedding Gown Preservation found Keeney’s dress and shipped it back to the dry cleaners.

“I think it’s a miracle,” Keeney said.

An invoice that was also found showed that the other dress belonged to a Katherine Stephenson. The Times tracked down Stephenson living three miles from Keeney. Stephenson had long accepted that her dress had been lost. She picked it up last week.

“Several people at that wedding are not with us anymore,” Stephenson said of the 2001 ceremony. “It will be really nice to have something special from a time when they were all in our lives.”

Meanwhile, Keeney has rescheduled her renewal ceremony for her 10th anniversary in November. And the dress still fits.

Associated Press