oddly enough

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Chicken, beer a bad recipe for home burglar who fell asleep

LAKE WORTH, Fla.

Chicken and beer make for a bad burglary.

A Florida family tells police they came home to chicken bones and empty beer bottles scattered about their kitchen floor and a would-be robber passed out on their couch.

The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office reports that deputies found 22-year-old Jacob Miller still asleep when they responded last Monday to the Lake Worth home in South Florida. After taking Miller into custody, deputies found numerous items of jewelry on the man that belonged to the family.

The Palm Beach Post reports that Miller told deputies he went into the home because he needed a place to stay but refused to answer any other questions.

Miller was charged with burglary and theft. Records also showed an open warrant in Texas for burglary.

Subway sandwich artists set world record in Las Vegas

LAS VEGAS

Subway’s “sandwich artists” cranked out a record number of their lunchmeat masterpieces in Las Vegas recently.

Franchisees and employees from around the world set a Guinness World Record for the “most people making sandwiches simultaneously” when 1,481 people built subs at the same time during the brand’s annual convention in Las Vegas.

All of the sandwiches were donated to the Salvation Army.

The previous record was set in February 2014, when 1,363 people sponsored by the dining discount company TangoTab made sandwiches at the same time in Dallas.

Skunk saved by Detroit-area police officer – sans spray

ROCHESTER, Mich.

A hungry skunk whose head was stuck in a yogurt container has a hero: a suburban Detroit police officer.

Rochester Officer Merlin Taylor’s encounter Sunday was recorded from his police car. The video shows Taylor putting on a rubber glove and cautiously approaching the skunk, which was running in circles.

Taylor removed the yogurt container and ran when it appeared the skunk might spray.

Sgt. Mark Lyon doubts that Taylor will get an award, but the sergeant is impressed with the officer’s quick moves. Lyon tells The Detroit News: “We all had a good laugh.”

It’s not the first time Taylor has come to an animal’s rescue. The department posted a picture on its Facebook page of him rescuing baby ducks from a storm drain.

Associated Press