A Florida wife winged a knife at her hubby, stabbing him in the right leg, when he refused to prepare for Hurricane Isabel, cops say.
Joan Harris, 70, allegedly went berserk when 71-year-old spouse Robert wouldn’t stop watching football on TV in their Port St. Lucie home.
“He refused and said that he’d get to it at halftime,” said Officer Kacey Donnell.
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An ice-cream loving ballerina has been fired from Moscow’s Bolshoi Theater – for being too heavy for her dance partners to lift.
Anastasia Volochkova, one of Russia’s most famous dancers, is unrepentant, insisting she cannot imagine living without one of her favorite foods.
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The reviews are in on Canada’s first batch of government-approved marijuana for seriously ill patients – it’s “disgusting.”
“It’s totally unsuitable for human consumption,” raged Jim Wakeford, a 58-year-old AIDS patient from British Columbia.
Wakeford is so angry at the bad high, he’s demanding his money back – $195 plus taxes for two bags.
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A Pennsylvania food market is getting even with folks who pass bad checks – by plastering their names on a huge marquee outside the store.
“Your name only goes up there if you ignore me,” said Vic Ricci, owner of the Park Avenue Market in Easton.
“People ask me if it’s legal. I say, ‘I don’t care.’ If you can’t pay a $25 check, how can you pay a lawyer? If someone wants to take me to court, I’ll go.”
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A Cincinnati artist has carved a 7,000-pound pig out of 26,666 bars of Ivory soap.
“People say it’s a dirty job, but somebody’s got to do it,” said artist Bev Kirk, who named her creation “Sudsie,” in honor of Proctor & Gamble – which makes Ivory – and several pork manufacturers in Cincinnati.
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A dentist is offering a $100 reward for the return of his toothbrush.
The 14-foot, 100-pound red wooden toothbrush was stolen from Dr. Ruhl Warden’s office in Lima, Ohio.
“Everybody sort of identified my office with it,” said Warden, 74. “Everybody’s seen the big red toothbrush.”