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• At a convenience store in Farmington, PA., a man who bought a pack of cigarettes and then, once the cash drawer was open, demanded all the money inside, was arrested when he refused to leave until he also got the correct change for his cigarettes.
• In Mequon, Wis., a couple building a $140,000, 2,200-square foot house is being sued by other subdivision homeowners for building a home deemed too small and inexpensive for the subdivision.
• In Newark, N.J., a county prosecutor had his car stolen from a church parking lot while giving a speech on the evils of automobile theft.
• On the way to a New York rally to fight a state law mandating motorcycle helmet use, two cyclists died from head injuries after they ran into each other on the highway and were thrown from their bikes.
• In Inglewood, Calif. , the driver of a big-wheeled "monster" truck avoided a drug arrest by driving over the police car.
• At a bank in Los Angeles , a robbery escape was thwarted when two robbers tried to speed away from the curb but were apprehended when they got behind an elderly male driver who was driving only about 15 mph.
• In Salem, Ore. , a couple who left crime-plagued Orange County, Calif., and moved up the coast for safer living had all of their belongings, including the rental truck, stolen the first night there.
• Just outside Santa Barbara, Calif., a young condor died when it flew into a utility pole after officials had moved the bird from the city to more rural environs so it would stand better odds of living.
• A judge in Radnor, Pa., admonished police for pretending a Xerox copy machine was a lie detector, placing a metal colander on the head of a suspect, attaching it to the copier with fake wires and pressing "START" on the copier each time the suspect answered a question so a paper would emerge with- "HE'S LYING"- printed across it.
• In Morgantown, W. Va. , a 911 operator who'd grown accustomed to taking calls about plumbing emergencies, admitted to superiors he was not paying full attention when a woman called to ask what to do now that her water had broken, and he asked if she knew the location of the shutoff valve.
• At a motel near Miami's international airport, a woman's complaint of an odour in her room was traced to the body under her bed, believed to have been there for three weeks.
• In Fort Wayne, Ind., the body of a pedestrian hit by a hit-and-run driver sailed into the bed of a passing pickup truck whose driver was so startled, he veered into another lane and sideswiped a vehicle whose driver was intoxicated and then charged with drunken driving.
• In Artesia, NM, a family's dog, believed dead after being hit by a car and buried in a nearby field, surprised family members the next day when he apparently dug his way out of his grave and was waiting for them on the front porch as they arrived home from work.
• A pair of 25-year-old identical twins from Vancouver, Wash. , are contending it was the other twin who impregnated a 14-year-old Vancouver girl and should not be liable for paternity. Because they are twins, genetic testing will not resolve the case.
• In Germany , officials at Heidelberg University came under fire when, in a cost-saving measure, the university began using real human cadavers instead of costly crash dummies for car crash-testing purposes.
• Near Chicago , a small group of butterfly enthusiasts spotted five incredibly rare Karner blues butterflies - not seen in Illinois since the 1890s - so they killed them to prove they'd really seen them.
• In Fort Lauderdale, Fla., a 23-year-old German-speaking foreign exchange student who meant to say to a stewardess his bladder was about to explode but instead used the English word "airplane," was released from jail after serving a nine-month term for making a false bomb threat.
• In Hollywood, Calif. , a man angered over his bill at a jewellery store was arrested for sneaking into the back of the store and, unaware to store officials, placing-"Free, Take One"-signs above a set of rings that retailed for $10,000 each.
• In New York City , three University of South Dakota students had a suitcase stolen. The suitcase that contained all their clothes and tickets to a Mets game, so they staked out the game to find three men in their seats also wearing their clothes. Police then arrested them.
• In Willington, Conn. , an 8-year-old who walked onto a railroad trestle, fell between the tracks and momentarily passed out as a 12-car train roared over her, miraculously escaped injury and jumped up to scream to her brothers: "Don't tell Mom!"
• In the former Soviet state of Georgia, a welcoming speech by the republic's leader for a new Coca-Cola bottling plant fizzled a bit when he took a sip of Coke and remarked: "Great! It tastes just like Pepsi!"
• In San Diego , a woman described by police as "having used too much hairspray," was listed in guarded condition after she burst into flames trying to light a cigarette.
• In El Paso, Texas , a man was so worried by the peculiar actions of his pet rabbits that he flagged down police, and admitted a reason might be because he accidentally fed them some of his marijuana.
• In St. Paul, Minn., a woman driving a neighbour to the hospital to have a baby was forced to pull over on the side of the road to unexpectedly give birth to her own child, the procedure being aided by the woman who was being driven to the hospital to have a baby.
• In San Jose, Calif. , a German tourist who spoke no English spent an entire day driving in taxi cabs looking for the street of his daughter's home, only to realise it was San Jose, Costa Rica - and not California - where his daughter lives.
• In Philadelphia, a woman claimed it was simply ironic she happened to find a nearly year-old $10.2 million lottery ticket in a junk drawer the day after her divorce was finalised.
• In Atlanta, Ga., a man desiring a fuller rear end died when a friend administered an injection using silicone purchased at a nearby auto parts store.
• At a wedding reception in San Antonio, Texas, a groom was shot to death in a scuffle with his bride after she questioned his hesitation during recitation of the passage, "until death do us part."
• In San Francisco , a mother and son who used a toilet plunger to revive a man whose heart had stopped decided to patent their discovery and develop a new heart-resuscitating, multi-purpose suction device.
• Miami authorities charged a 326-pound woman with shoplifting after she passed out while attempting to smuggle two 15-pound frozen turkeys from a convenience store by placing them inside her brassiere.
• In Kansas City, Mo. , afternoon rush-hour traffic was tied up for more than three miles after a box containing 2,000 pornographic magazines fell from a truck and motorists began stopping to look at them.
• In Taylorville, IL , a man sustained severe cuts and a haunted house attraction was temporarily closed when operators used a real chain saw as a prop to scare patrons because they didn't have the tools to take the chain off the saw.
• In Philadelphia , pro basketball player Charles Barkley told reporters he could not answer questions pertaining to his just-published autobiography because he had not read it yet.
• Near Columbus, Ohio , a 38-year-old man riding in the back of an RV going 65 mph sustained injuries when he opened what he thought was the bathroom door but instead stepped out onto Interstate 70.
• In Canberra, Australia , former President Bush gave the V-for-victory sign as his armoured limousine drove past demonstrators, unaware in Australia it carries the same meaning as a middle-finger salute in the U.S.
• A Tampa, Fla. , court has ruled the wife of a brain-dead man must decide whether she wants him declared dead so she can collect his life insurance or alive so she can collect his medical insurance.
• In Evansville, Ind., two men smoking marijuana in their motel room were arrested after not realising the wing next to them was rented to police for a training seminar on drug detection.
• In Memphis, Tenn., several visitors to a zoo exhibit called "Dinosaurs Live!" demanded refunds after discovering the exhibit did not include real dinosaurs which, as explained by apologising officials, ceased to roam the earth 65 million years ago.