ODDLY ENOUGH

ODDLY ENOUGH

Selfies taken with stolen Kindle show up in cloud

LOS ANGELES

Los Angeles police say a photo they circulated of two people taken with a stolen Kindle has led to its return.

Police released the photo Thursday that had uploaded automatically to the owner’s cloud account. It showed a photo of a man and a woman who apparently visited church on Ash Wednesday because she had a smudge of ash on her forehead.

Police say a few hours later the 26-year-old man in the picture returned the Kindle, and it has been returned to the owner. The woman in the photo was the man’s mother, who police say had nothing to do with the theft.

Police Capt. Paul Vernon says there was family pressure on the man to return the tablet because his mother was in the picture.

Police say they’ll seek a misdemeanor charge for the man.

Pumpkin-flinging contest eyes return to Delmarva in 2016

GEORGETOWN, Del.

After a two-year absence, a pumpkin-flinging contest could be coming back to the Delmarva Peninsula this year.

Organizers of the World Championship Punkin Chunkin hope to have the event in Delaware’s Sussex County but are considering locations across Delmarva, including Maryland’s Worcester and Dorchester counties. The event began in Lewes in 1986.

Punkin Chunkin Association President Frank Payton says a location for the contest could be picked by the end of March. The competition, in which contestants launch pumpkins with a variety of homemade contraptions, is expected to take place from Nov. 4-6.

The Punkin Chunkin began in Sussex County in 1986, but it has not taken place since 2013 because of insurance and liability issues.

Payton says organizers have secured insurance for this year’s event.

Postal Service apologizes for delivering blood-stained mail

OLEAN, N.Y.

The U.S. Postal Service has apologized to residents along an upstate New York mail route who received mail stained with blood.

A Postal Service spokeswoman for the agency’s western New York district tells the Olean Times Herald that the blood was from a mail carrier whose finger was cut after a vehicle accident Tuesday.

The official says the carrier’s vehicle was sideswiped, damaging the side mirror. The worker cut his finger when he tried to adjust the mirror.

The official says the carrier believed the bleeding had stopped and wasn’t aware blood was smudging the mail he was dropping off along a delivery route near the city of Olean, 60 miles south of Buffalo.

Associated Press