ODDLY ENOUGH

ODDLY ENOUGH

Left behind: Thieves raid Va. store of right-foot shoes

ROANOKE, Va.

Try walking a mile in these shoes.

The Roanoke Times reports a Virginia shoe store lost mostly shoes designed for the right foot over the course of two break-ins this summer.

Clean Soles operator Rob Wickham says his 2-year-old sneaker store was raided by two people July 20 and by one person Aug. 25. Taken together, he lost shirts, hoodies, a jacket, one complete sneaker pair – and 13 right shoes.

Wickham says he typically keeps right shoes on display, while their other halves rest behind the counter. Accordingly, Wickham says the looters were “pretty much risking their freedom for nothing.”

Roanoke County police spokeswoman Amy Whittaker says one 17-year-old has been charged in the July burglary. Police have also released video of the Aug. 25 burglary.

Conn. man faces charges after shooting at ‘ghost’

TOLLAND, Conn.

A Connecticut man who told police he was a paranormal investigator faces several charges after firing shots in his house at what he told police may have been a ghost.

Twenty-five-year-old Christain Devaux of Tolland was due in court this week on charges including the illegal discharge of a firearm, making a false statement to police, second-degree reckless endangerment, misusing an emergency call, and disorderly conduct.

Police say Devaux put two bullet holes in his wall July 26, initially reporting the incident as an attempted break in.

He later told police he believes the intruder was actually a spirit.

Devaux, who is free on $5,000 bond, did not immediately return a telephone call seeking comment. State police told the Journal Inquirer of Manchester that Devaux had made a similar report back in 2011.

Thief in Mexico tries to steal hearse, with body inside

MEXICO CITY

Police in central Mexico they’ve caught a man who made off with a hearse – complete with a body inside.

The Tlaquepaque police department says on its Facebook page that the hearse had been readied to take the body of an 80-year-old man from a hospital in neighboring Guadalajara to a funeral home.

Police say a 40-year-old man has admitted seeing the keys left in the vehicle and deciding to take it late Aug. 31.

Officers were alerted and they soon spotted the hearse along a highway and detained the suspect, whose name was given only as Annibal Saul N. Police said he’s been turned over to prosecutors.

Both the hearse and the body were recovered.

Associated Press