ODDLY ENOUGH
ODDLY ENOUGH
Couple travel across the world to marry at a Rotary lunch
PHILADELPHIA
A Japanese couple traveled more than 6,000 miles to get married in Philadelphia with some help from the organization that first brought the groom to the city six years ago.
Philly.com reported that 33-year-old Yusuke Yoda and 35-year-old Kazuko Inoue tied the knot recently during the Rotary Club’s weekly luncheon.
The linguistics lecturers at Tokyo University tried to arrange their wedding from across the Pacific, but didn’t know any caterers, photographers, reception halls or even a judge to marry them.
That’s when they remembered the Rotary Club. The organization had sponsored a scholarship to bring Yoda to the University of Pennsylvania for graduate school.
The Rotarians found a judge, a photographer and a cake. They toasted the newlyweds who traveled across the world to get married at a Rotary lunch.
Police: Upon finding Taco Bell closed, angry man smashes car
PITTSFIELD, Mass.
Police in Massachusetts have charged a man they say got so angry when he found out that Taco Bell was closed that he sped off in his car, crashed into a free-standing ATM building, and knocked himself unconscious.
Police say Derrick LaForest pulled up to the drive-thru in Pittsfield at 1:30 a.m. on a recent morning and when no one came to serve him, honked his horn for two minutes.
The Berkshire Eagle reported that after a worker told him the restaurant was closed, he tore away at high speed, struck a curb, lost control and smashed into the building. He refused medical attention.
LaForest told police he didn’t remember hitting the building.
He has been released on $500 bail after pleading not guilty to reckless operation and vandalism.
Dead cat voting? Flier leads to some confusion in Florida
SANFORD, Fla.
A Florida election official is working to help confused voters after one person reported that a registration flier had been sent home for her dead cat.
Seminole County Supervisor of Elections Michael Ertel said Thursday that he has set up a website to vet election mailings. He says he was motivated by the cat incident, in which a voter told him a Washington-based advocacy group had sent the mailing.
Ertel says the website will educate voters about which fliers are legitimate and which aren’t.
The elections supervisor says some of the out-of-state fliers from interest groups can confuse voters.
Associated Press