oddly enough

oddly enough

Homemade, cardboard license plate lands NY woman in jail

BUFFALO, N.Y.

Authorities said putting a homemade, cardboard New York state license plate on a car has landed a woman in jail.

The Erie County sheriff’s office said a deputy pulled over a car after noticing it didn’t have a front license plate.

Police said the vehicle’s rear plate was actually a piece of cardboard painted to resemble the yellow and blue version of the New York license plate. The bogus plate had three letters and four numbers, with the words “New York” written on top and “Empire State” on the bottom.

The charges against the 28-year-old woman from the town of Sardinia include possessing a forged instrument and operating a vehicle with a suspend registration.

She was held in the county jail on $400 bail.

Dog pops up in driver’s seat when semi crashes in Minn.

MANKATO, Minn.

One dog apparently has learned a new trick: how to drive a semi-truck.

Customers at a Minnesota gas station saw a golden Labrador retriever appear to drive the semi across a road Friday.

Mankato police said the idling truck apparently was put into gear, then went through a parking lot, across the street and over a curb.

The Free Press of Mankato reported that a passer-by discovered the dog sitting in the driver’s seat when he jumped into the truck to stop it.

David Stegora was at the store when he heard the truck smash into a tree and a parked car. He couldn’t see the driver but saw the dog climb up near the driver’s side.

Police said the truck was taken off the road. The driver had left the unoccupied truck running in a nearby parking lot.

Norwegian police trawl for goldfish’s owner

HELSINKI

For one goldfish in Norway, it’s almost like being a fish out of water.

The goldfish in question is being held at a police station in the northwestern town of Bodo while officers try to track down its owner, according to Norwegian news agency NTB.

NTB said officers found the goldfish in a jam jar at the Nordlandshall indoor soccer stadium and decided to take it back to the police station because they couldn’t find the owner.

Ina Selfors, spokeswoman for the Nordland police district, told NTB that somebody likely had bought the goldfish and taken it to the stadium and forgot it there.

Selfors said she hopes the owner will contact them, adding that until then, the fish “will stay in the jam jar and keep us company.”

Associated Press