ODDLY ENOUGH

ODDLY ENOUGH

Pranksters plant tree at Ohio park – in baseball infield

FRANKLIN, Ohio

Suspected pranksters have caused a stir by planting a tree at a southwest Ohio park in a particularly inconvenient spot: in the baseball field, smack between home plate and the pitcher’s mound.

The Dayton Daily News reported the tree was discovered May 9 at Franklin Community Park when Franklin High School players showed up for a doubleheader.

A photo taken then by a player has circulated on social media.

Officials with Franklin City Schools are trying to determine who’s responsible for the prank. Superintendent Michael Sander says vandalism or criminal damaging won’t be condoned or tolerated.

Sander says the city about 20 miles south of Dayton paid to remove the tree and repair the damage.

But he says anyone found responsible for the tree will get the bill.

Mich. couple name son No. 13; decision was a challenge

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.

The 13th son of a Michigan couple now has a name.

Forty-year-old Jay Schwandt told The Associated Press in a text message that the couple decided Friday morning to name their newborn Francisco Matthew Schwandt.

The father said earlier it was a challenge for him and his wife, Kateri, to agree on a name.

The latest addition was born Wednesday at Mercy Health Saint Mary’s Hospital in Grand Rapids. The baby and 40-year-old mother have been doing well.

The family lives in Rockford, north of Grand Rapids. They don’t have any daughters.

Student asks girlfriend to prom while jumping out of a plane

POMFRET, Conn.

A Connecticut boarding school student videotaped himself asking his girlfriend to go to prom with him while jumping out of an airplane.

WVIT-TV reported that Pomfret School student Eddie Staten saw people skydiving on his way back from Easter vacation and decided that’s how he would ask his girlfriend of about two years to prom.

Staten jumped out of the plane this month, giving the camera a thumbs-up in one hand and holding the sign asking Talia Guilino to prom in the other. He said she agreed to go.

The Skydive Danielson company says this was the second skydiving promposal it has helped with this year. The video was posted online May 3.

Associated Press