ODDLY ENOUGH

ODDLY ENOUGH

Norway TV on tenterhooks over impending rockslide

HELSINKI

Norway, which provided TV viewers with five hours of knitting live, showing a fire burning itself out and minute-by-minute salmon fishing, has found a new attraction — a rockslide on a mountain.

But no one knows when it will happen.

For days, media have focused webcams on the isolated, rubbly mountainside of Mannen in western Norway. National broadcaster NRK is streaming it live on its website.

Last week, 11 people were evacuated from the area, now declared a no-go zone.

Webcams cannot guarantee a good show. It might happen at night, and daytime viewing could be hampered by thick rain and mist. As darkness fell Tuesday, a tiny rockslide lasting 15 seconds was the big news of the day.

‘Hello Kitty’ arrested on drunken-driving charge

GORHAM, Maine

Police say a Maine woman who was pulled over while wearing a Hello Kitty costume was arrested on a drunken driving charge.

Gorham police say officers stopped 37-year-old Carrie Gipson, of Westbrook, about 2 a.m. Sunday because she driving in the wrong lane.

They say she refused to take a breath test and was arrested and charged with operating under the influence. She was taken to the Cumberland County jail.

Her police mugshot shows her wearing a red and white Hello Kitty costume, minus the doll’s mammoth head.

There was no immediate response to a phone message left by The Associated Press at a residence believed to be Gipson’s.

Associated Press