ODDLY ENOUGH

ODDLY ENOUGH

Hockey stick used to bash truck over road-salt beef

SOUTHAMPTON, Pa.

Police in a southeastern Pennsylvania township are investigating a hockey-stick attack on a public works truck, apparently by someone upset that their street wasn’t getting road salt after recent snows.

The Bucks County Courier Times reports the Northampton Township truck’s window was found smashed last week by someone who left a note saying, “Developments need salt.”

Township public works director Gary Crossland says the municipality is struggling with a shortage of road salt after a string of storms. He called the attack on the truck “ridiculous” and asked, “Why would I waste salt on developments when we’re so stretched for it?”

Police are trying to figure out who smashed the truck window.

School picks ‘prom-munism,’ a communism-themed dance

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.

Seniors at a New Mexico high school have voted to have a prom with a communism theme, which they’ve dubbed “prom-munism.”

KRQE-TV in Albuquerque reported that Cottonwood Classical Preparatory School students voted online recently for the theme.

Senior Sarah Zachary says many of her classmates are jokesters and they wanted the prom to be funny. But she says lots of students also are intense about politics.

Cottonwood executive director Sam Obenshain says the school’s students are in the International Baccalaureate program and are very academically focused.

Obenshain says he plans to talk to students to make sure that the communism theme is something they want to embrace.

The prom is scheduled at the Albuquerque Aquarium on April 25.

Free groceries for shoppers after cash registers crash

RALEIGH, N.C.

Shoppers at a Harris Teeter supermarket in North Carolina’s capital city have gotten a big break on their bills.

WRAL in Raleigh reported that the cash registers at the chain’s Cameron Village store crashed Friday. The station quoted a store manager as saying his team tried for 15 minutes to reboot the system at the checkout lines. When their efforts failed, the manager decided the shoppers had waited long enough and allowed them to get their orders free of charge. Anyone already standing in line was allowed to leave without paying. It’s not known how many shoppers enjoyed the windfall.

Harris Teeter spokeswoman Danna Jones said she had no details on what caused the outage.

Associated Press