ODDLY ENOUGH

ODDLY ENOUGH

Surf but no turf for goats

PISMO BEACH, Calif.

Pismo Beach is on board with surfing goats. But grazing goats can be a bummer.

Three goats — Grover, Pismo and Goatee — have become celebrities in the city on California’s Central Coast and on YouTube after owner Dana McGregor taught them to surf.

But McGregor has gotten pricey tickets recently for letting them graze within city limits, and he is violating codes by keeping them at all. Goats are allowed on larger lots and for temporary clearing of plants, which is why McGregor got a goat in the first place.

The San Luis Obispo Tribune reported last week that the city is considering allowing up to three goats on smaller lots and allowing them in parks on leashes.

They remain legal and welcome at the beach.

Pennsylvania church reports 500-pound bell stolen — again

HOOKSTOWN, Pa.

A tiny western Pennsylvania church says its 500-pound brass bell is missing, and police suspect someone has stolen it for scrap — the same thing that happened to the same bell two years ago.

The bell at the Frankfort Presbyterian Church in Hookstown, Beaver County, wasn’t rung or kept in the church’s steeple. Rather, it sat beneath the church’s sign on its front lawn.

Two years ago, police called scrap dealers in that area and arrested three men as they tried to sell the bell to a metal recycler across the border in East Liverpool, Ohio.

After that, the church welded the bell to a metal stand, which was then attached to a concrete pad buried under the ground. Despite that, someone managed to take the bell after cutting the welds in mid-May.

Associated Press