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oddly enough

Dream beach house built on wrong lot

HAMMOCK DUNES, Fla.

A dream beach house in Florida has turned into a nightmare for a Missouri couple.

Six months after the custom house was built along the Atlantic Ocean near Palm Coast, Mark and Brenda Voss learned it’s on the wrong lot in the gated Ocean Hammock community.

Mark Voss tells the Daytona Beach News Journal they’re in “total disbelief.” The couple own 18 other residential lots in the community. They bought the lot in question in 2012 and hired Keystone Homes to build a three-story, 5,000-square-foot vacation rental. But instead it was built on the lot next door, which is owned by a North Carolina couple.

The Vosses hired a lawyer, and Keystone vice president Robbie Richmond says the company is trying to negotiate a settlement between the lot owners and other parties.

Emu corralled in California after jaunt through traffic

TUSTIN, Calif.

It’s not every day you see a 6-foot-tall bird running in traffic.

But Tustin police say that was the report Tuesday morning when an emu got loose from a backyard pen.

The Orange County Register says officers were called to a quiet residential area shortly before 11:30 a.m.

By the time they got there, neighbors had safely corralled the big bird and returned it to a pen it shares with two other emus.

A police statement says there was no threat to public safety.

The emu is a flightless Australian bird that resembles an ostrich. It’s the second-largest bird in the world after the ostrich and can sprint at up to 30 mph.

Authorities say it’s legal to own emus in Orange County with the proper zoning.

Tenn. woman sent to jail over overgrown yard

LENOIR CITY, Tenn.

A Tennessee woman who fell behind on her yard work was cited by code enforcers and has served a stint in jail over her overgrown yard.

Karen Holloway tells WVLT that the issue started in the summer, when the city sent a citation. She admits she didn’t properly maintain her yard in Lenoir City in East Tennessee and says it had overgrown trees and bushes, but she says she didn’t deserve jail time. She says she fell behind because of personal family issues.

The station reports that Judge Terry Vann heard the case last week and handed down a five-day jail sentence but amended it Tuesday to six hours.

Holloway turned herself in Tuesday at the jail.

WVLT says neither Vann nor police Chief Don White could be reached to comment.

Associated Press