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Man charged with posing as officer to cut into fast-food line

ODESSA, Texas

A West Texas man has been charged with impersonating an officer by using sirens and flashing lights to skip to the head of the drive-thru line at a fast-food restaurant.

Odessa police said Michael Chico was arrested after an off-duty officer spotted a truck with law-enforcement trappings. Cpl. Steve LeSueur said Chico’s vehicle looked like an unmarked police vehicle.

The officer who saw the truck cut in line Saturday thought the driver, who was wearing a uniform, was a volunteer firefighter and followed Chico to some apartments.

LeSueur said that when confronted, Chico said he wasn’t an officer and also used the lights and sirens to get through traffic lights.

Chico was freed Sunday on $15,000 bond. Online jail records don’t list an attorney for him.

10-foot, 300-pound metal rooster stolen in Georgia

ATHENS, Ga.

Police are searching for whoever made off with Rocket the Rusty Rooster, a 10-foot-tall, 300-pound metal sculpture stolen from its perch outside an Athens business.

Lexington Vintage owner Bonnie Harris told CBS 46 that she’s saddened by the crime, believed to have happened Friday night or Saturday morning.

Harris said the rooster attracted attention to the store, which opened in November.

Athens-Clarke County police said the estimated value of the Bunyanesque artwork is $3,000, meaning that whoever stole it could face a felony.

Harris told The Athens Banner-Herald that the rooster’s installation two weeks ago involved anchoring the big bird in the ground with rebar stakes. She said her husband thinks some type of tool was used to cut Rusty away because part of one foot was left in the ground.

Member of university’s rodeo team captures escaped steer

LEXINGTON, Ky.

A roving steer lost its bid for freedom because it turns out the University of Kentucky has a rodeo team.

The Lexington Herald-Leader reported that the steer roamed on and near campus for more than an hour Tuesday before rodeo team member Adam Menker deployed his lasso training.

The Animal and Food Sciences Department chairman said the animal had been on its way to be slaughtered when it hit a gate with a faulty latch and escaped. But Menker, who is from Ohio, lassoed the animal, and handlers held onto it.

Meanwhile, students came out to see the commotion, a truck driver stopped for a video, and #UKsteer and @lexingtoncow took off on Twitter.

The university’s rodeo team is a student organization under the College of Agriculture, Food and Environment.

Associated Press