ODDLY ENOUGH

ODDLY ENOUGH

Ohio man: Rescued cow is a regular passenger

DAYTON

An Ohio man driving home from work recently says he did a double-take before firing up his cellphone to record a cow poking her head out the back window of a pickup truck.

WKEF-TV reports the video posted by Tipp City’s JD Blair on Facebook has gone viral.

The pickup truck’s driver, Cory Morris, of Ludlow Falls, says 18-month-old Annie has been part of his life since her mother rejected her at birth. He says the 800-pound Annie regularly climbs into the back seat of his truck.

Morris says when people ask about Annie’s road tripping habits, he replies, “Where else would I put her?”

People can follow Annie’s life and adventures on her new Facebook page. MOVED 10/05

Lottery ticket leads FBI to bank robbery suspect

PALATINE, Ill.

Authorities say a dropped lottery ticket led investigators to the man who robbed a suburban Chicago bank.

Court documents say an FBI agent found an Illinois lottery scratch-off ticket that surveillance video showed falling from the man’s pocket during the Sept. 28 robbery of a Chase Bank branch in Palatine.

Agents tracked the ticket to where it was sold at a gas station in the nearby community of Rolling Meadows. They used store video to match the buyer as the man who redeemed some winning tickets at another gas station and identify his car. Local police stopped the car Oct. 2 in Arlington Heights.

Federal prosecutors charged 38-year-old Dexter Riley with robbing about $8,200 from the bank. Court records didn’t list a defense attorney for Riley.

NM man sues store after slipping on chile pod

SANTA FE, N.M.

A New Mexico man suing a supermarket chain after he says he slipped and fell on a green chile pod.

The Albuquerque Journal reports a lawyer for Richard Berman filed a lawsuit Oct. 4 in Santa Fe District Court two years after the chile purportedly swept Berman off his feet.

Berman is seeking damages from Sprouts Farmers Markets for injuries he suffered to his neck, shoulder, back and left knee. The lawsuit claims Berman continues to suffer from headaches and other pains.

The lawsuit says Sprouts “knew or should have known that the floor of the store, where the green chile was located, was subject to routine heavy foot traffic.”

The Phoenix-based Sprouts Farmers Markets declined to comment.

Associated Press