ODDLY ENOUGH

ODDLY ENOUGH

Maine lobstermen catch 2 albino lobsters in a week

OWLS HEAD, Maine

It’s no white lie: Two lobstermen in Maine caught a pair of rare albino lobsters within a week.

The Portland Press Herald reports that Bret Philbrick caught the curious crustacean off of Owls Head on Thursday and Joe Bates caught one off the Rockland breakwater days earlier. Albino lobsters are believed to be about one in 100 million.

The lobsters are in a crate at Owls Head Lobster Co. One will go to the Maine State Aquarium in Boothbay Harbor and the other to Brooks Trap Mill in Thomaston. The lobsters are under legal size and would normally have to be returned to the ocean but the Marine Patrol made an exception.

Bates also caught a one-in-30 million yellow lobster Monday.

Seeing double: Utah teacher has 4 sets of twins in class

KAYSVILLE, Utah

A northern Utah third-grade teacher is starting the new school year with a surprise: four sets of twins in her class.

Teacher Andrea Wood at Columbia Elementary School in Kaysville says the twins all like being in the same class together with their siblings, and she won’t split them up.

But while she has the siblings all sitting next to each other as the class becomes acquainted, she’ll probably separate them inside the classroom eventually.

Wood told KSL the distinction might make things easier for parent-teacher conferences because she’ll have just one parent to talk to for each set of twins and their parents will have just one teacher to consult.

Her class has one pair of identical twins, as does another third-grade class at the same school.

Motorcyclist brags to cops that he hit 185 mph in chase

CONCORD, N.H.

New Hampshire police say a motorcyclist clocked at 127 mph bragged after being arrested that he had reached 185 mph during the chase.

State police say 31-year-old David J. Fries, of Manchester, was spotted by a trooper on Interstate 93 in Bow at 2:45 a.m. in late August.

The first trooper eventually ended the chase, but another trooper saw Fries crash into a guardrail after he exited Interstate 393.

Police say Fries then led officers on an hourlong foot chase in Concord. He was subdued with help from a police dog.

Fries was treated for injuries from the crash and from the dog.

He faces a variety of charges and is being held on $30,000 bail.

Associated Press