oddly enough


oddly enough

Alaska fishermen snag nearly 400-pound halibut

PETERSBURG, Alaska

It wasn’t a record breaker, but it was still a helluva halibut.

Petersburg radio station KFSK reported that fishermen Brian Mattson and Doug Corl hauled in the catch of a lifetime Sunday with a 396-pound halibut in southeast Alaska. The fish was nearly 8 feet long.

They used a winch to bring the fish up onto their vessel, the Day Spring, and Mattson said it “just kept coming and coming, and then we knew it was big.”

A large crowd came down to the dock to see the fish when they delivered the halibut for processing at Petersburg Fisheries Inc. Even Levy Boiter with the International Pacific Halibut Commission went to get a gander.

Boiter said, “This is definitely not the average fish.”

Hidden monkey on flight causes stir

LAS VEGAS

Airline officials said they called for help after a passenger was found stowing a monkey in his shirt during a Las Vegas-bound flight.

Frontier Airlines spokesman Richard Oliver said the incident happened Tuesday night on a flight from Columbus to Las Vegas.

Oliver said the passenger broke policy by not informing the airline that he was bringing a service animal onboard, and then refused to turn over documents verifying the monkey’s status.

McCarran International Airport spokeswoman Christine Crews said law-enforcement officials met up with the plane and determined that the monkey was a certified service animal.

Handcuffs instead of rings for brides and grooms

VIENNA

Two couples looking to get married left an Austrian registry office wearing handcuffs instead of rings.

State broadcaster ORF reported that the registrar in the town of Moedling, south of Vienna, became suspicious because neither of the pairs – a Romanian woman with a Nepalese man and a Hungarian woman with a Tunisian man – could understand each other.

Police determined that the four were seeking bogus marriages that would have given the men a better chance of settling in the EU through wives who come from EU-member nations.

ORF said Wednesday that one of the men was sought by police, but gave no details. None of the four was identified in keeping with Austrian privacy laws.

Associated Press

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