Oddly enough

Oddly enough

‘Trail of macaroni salad’ leads to burglary arrests

MOUNT MORRIS, N.Y.

Authorities said a trail of macaroni salad leading away from a western New York restaurant helped police track down three burglary suspects.

The Democrat and Chronicle of Rochester reported that the owners of Build-A-Burger told the Livingston County Sheriff’s Office that their surveillance system and cash register had been stolen early Sunday.

Deputies checked out a nearby hiking and biking path, where they found cash register parts, surveillance-system parts, rubber gloves, loose change and “a steady trail of macaroni salad.”

Police said they later learned that three men had stolen a large bowl of the salad and took turns eating it while making their getaway.

The suspects were in custody by Sunday afternoon. All three are charged with burglary, criminal mischief and grand larceny.

Elderly man with prostitute under bed loses housing subsidy

NORRISTOWN, Pa.

Authorities say a man living in a suburban Philadelphia assisted-living facility has lost his housing subsidy after officials found a prostitute underneath his bed.

Uri Monson told The Intelligencer in Doylestown that the man, believed to be in his 70s, paid prostitutes using profits earned from peddling alcohol to fellow residents.

Monson said the man was a “more-mobile gentleman” who went on booze runs for his neighbors.

The incident was reported Thursday after county commissioners authorized contract extensions with private facilities housing former residents of the closed county-owned assisted-living facility.

The county paid more than $1 million to subsidize assisted-living care for 21 seniors last year.

Consumer culture gone wild: Boar visits Hong Kong mall

HONG KONG

Talk about a consumer culture gone wild. A Hong Kong shopping mall received a visit from a ham-fisted customer Sunday when a wild boar wandered in and got trapped inside a children’s clothing store.

Video showed the boar, which apparently had climbed up a ladder in the shop’s back room, punching a hole through the showroom’s false ceiling with a hoof.

News reports said the animal was a 55-pound, 3-foot-long juvenile female.

A crowd of shoppers, watching from behind a line of police, squealed in amazement as the boar clambered down onto the top of a display case, jumped to the floor and skittered around the shop, knocking over mannequins and signs.

The boar eventually was tranquilized by a veterinarian and taken to an animal rehab center, the South China Morning Post reported.

Associated Press