Weird News: Hundred Thousand Eggs Stolen
The Neighbours
In Seminole County, Florida, Alan Davis, 69, is famous for all the wrong reasons, ClickOrlando reported. Davis’ unsightly property has been the bane of his neighbors’ existence for 25 years, and this year, as he celebrates the anniversary of his first county code violation, he’s added another element: a 6-foot-tall fiberglass representation of a human butt. Also in his yard: stacks of scrap metal, steel drums, rusted appliances, tarps, junked vehicles and towering weeds. Davis calls the yard a “political protest” against the county government. “I pile it up intentionally to aggravate them,” he said. As of mid-January, Davis owed the county $5.4 million in fines, with more accruing every day. “I’m not going to pay it,” Davis said. “I do what I want on my property.” Twice, the county has paid to haul away thousands of pounds of junk, but Davis just starts collecting again. “Freedom has a look. This is what it looks like,” he said.
Unexpected Guest
On Feb. 4, a guest at the Boulevard 17 hotel in Vlissingen, The Netherlands, returned to her room after taking her dog for a walk and found a gray seal taking a nap on the floor, NL Times reported. “Fortunately, she didn’t try to touch it,” said Valentijn Damen of the hotel ownership group Pier 7. “She walked up to the restaurant to get help.” The Zeeland Animal Welfare Foundation responded, and with assistance from the Sea Animal Rescue Team Netherlands RTZ, they put the seal in a basket and removed it to the beach. Officials said gray seals “look for a place to rest and sometimes lie in the middle of the terrace or on the road.”
Smooth Reaction
Things got heated at a Wingstop restaurant in Port St. Lucie, Florida, on Jan. 28, The Smoking Gun reported. Carnael Irene, 19, who worked at the location, told police that two customers -one a minor -became “loud and disruptive,” and one of them pushed a container of straws off the counter. Irene responded by throwing ranch dressing at them before she went to the kitchen and returned with a bucket of hot grease, which she also threw at the victims. She was charged with aggravated battery and aggravated child abuse, both felonies.
Sign of the Times
Pennsylvania State Police are working to track down the perpetrator of a crime that’s no yolk ... or joke. The Associated Press reported that on Feb. 1, 100,000 eggs were stolen from the back of a trailer in Antrim Township, and no leads have come in. “In my career, I’ve never heard of a hundred thousand eggs being stolen,” said Trooper Megan Frazer. But then, egg prices have rarely been so high. “We’re hoping that somebody knows something,” Frazer said. That would be eggs-cellent.