Odd news
Derek Stroop
Issue date: 3/27/09 Section: News
Compiled by Derek Stroop
Chili peppers help drivers stay awake
Chinese police are serving up a new way to help drivers stay more alert on the road.
Police in southern China have started offering chili peppers to drivers at highway rest stops in a bid to help the drivers stay awake on the road. This new policy is specific to the provinces of Hunan and Yunnan, where chilies are natively grown, according to Reuters.
"It's really good to have some hot peppers when you are tired from driving," driver Chen Jun said in a Reuters article.
This is not a recent issue in China, considering that Chinese roads are some of the most dangerous roadways in the world.
Couple finds cat in used sofa
A 9-year-old cat surfaced out of a recently bought couch in Spokane, Wash.
When Spokane local, Vickie Mendenhall, and her boyfriend, Chris Lund, bought a $27 used couch from a local store, they were not expecting a cat to be living inside. When Lund was watching TV, he felt the cat moving inside and quickly pulled the couch away from the wall, where he found a small calico cat, according to the Associated Press.
Mendenhall contacted the store, Value Village, to try to establish who had donated the couch, to no avail. She later took the cat to the local animal shelter to recover and contacted the local media.
The owner, Bob Killion, was reunited with his cat, Callie, after his friend notified him of the news story.
KFC icon raised from Japanese river
Colonel Sanders, a KFC icon, had his smiling face raised from a polluted Osaka river March 11.
The Hanshin Tigers tossed the Kentucky Fried Chicken icon into the Dotonbori River in 1985 when they won the Central League game. Suffice it to say, they were underdogs.
An American on the team, Randy Bass, jumped into the river with the icon, of which he bore a resemblance to, after beating off a massive losing streak in the Japanese Baseball League. They later went on to win the Japanese World Series, according to Reuters.
Recently, a diver checking for unexploded bombs in the polluted river came across the icon and prompted a rescue mission to raise the fallen statue.
"It's only a statue, but I felt as if I was rescuing someone," a worker said in a Reuters article.
Dummy caught not wearing seat belt
A man, from Bellevue, Wash., was trying to get away with driving in the High Occupancy Vehicle lane near Seattle with a dummy in his front seat. He had hoped to pass it off as a man, but when a police patrol officer saw a dangling seat belt on the passenger side, he pulled the gentleman over, according to the Associated Press.
The man admitted to trying to get away with using the lane illegally and the officer issued a $124 ticket and took the dummy away.
He created the dummy by placing a jacket on a piece of piping and putting a Gandalf mask and baseball cap on top.
Chili peppers help drivers stay awake
Chinese police are serving up a new way to help drivers stay more alert on the road.
Police in southern China have started offering chili peppers to drivers at highway rest stops in a bid to help the drivers stay awake on the road. This new policy is specific to the provinces of Hunan and Yunnan, where chilies are natively grown, according to Reuters.
"It's really good to have some hot peppers when you are tired from driving," driver Chen Jun said in a Reuters article.
This is not a recent issue in China, considering that Chinese roads are some of the most dangerous roadways in the world.
Couple finds cat in used sofa
A 9-year-old cat surfaced out of a recently bought couch in Spokane, Wash.
When Spokane local, Vickie Mendenhall, and her boyfriend, Chris Lund, bought a $27 used couch from a local store, they were not expecting a cat to be living inside. When Lund was watching TV, he felt the cat moving inside and quickly pulled the couch away from the wall, where he found a small calico cat, according to the Associated Press.
Mendenhall contacted the store, Value Village, to try to establish who had donated the couch, to no avail. She later took the cat to the local animal shelter to recover and contacted the local media.
The owner, Bob Killion, was reunited with his cat, Callie, after his friend notified him of the news story.
KFC icon raised from Japanese river
Colonel Sanders, a KFC icon, had his smiling face raised from a polluted Osaka river March 11.
The Hanshin Tigers tossed the Kentucky Fried Chicken icon into the Dotonbori River in 1985 when they won the Central League game. Suffice it to say, they were underdogs.
An American on the team, Randy Bass, jumped into the river with the icon, of which he bore a resemblance to, after beating off a massive losing streak in the Japanese Baseball League. They later went on to win the Japanese World Series, according to Reuters.
Recently, a diver checking for unexploded bombs in the polluted river came across the icon and prompted a rescue mission to raise the fallen statue.
"It's only a statue, but I felt as if I was rescuing someone," a worker said in a Reuters article.
Dummy caught not wearing seat belt
A man, from Bellevue, Wash., was trying to get away with driving in the High Occupancy Vehicle lane near Seattle with a dummy in his front seat. He had hoped to pass it off as a man, but when a police patrol officer saw a dangling seat belt on the passenger side, he pulled the gentleman over, according to the Associated Press.
The man admitted to trying to get away with using the lane illegally and the officer issued a $124 ticket and took the dummy away.
He created the dummy by placing a jacket on a piece of piping and putting a Gandalf mask and baseball cap on top.
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