The California city of Garden Grove has conjured up the ghost of Joe McCarthy by declaring itself a “no communist” zone.
The unusual resolution was passed by the city because its large Vietnamese refugee population gets angry whenever officials of the Vietnamese Communist Party government come to town.
So now it’s official – commies stay out!
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An elderly octopus who’s snubbed all female attention for years at an Alaska aquarium has finally found love with a fetching younger mate.
The 5-year-old, 52-pound creature named J-1 has fallen tentacles over heels for a comely eight-armed beauty named Aurora at SeaLife Center in Anchorage. She’s just 4 years old.
“They both were gripping the back wall of the tank. He just about covered her completely,” said curator Richard Hocking. “We really were not sure he had it in him.”
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Cops in Oklahoma are searching for a slippery thief who’s breaking into restaurants and stealing used cooking grease.
So far, he’s hit three eateries and ripped off 5,000 pounds of the smelly sludge. But the fat is hardly worth the effort it takes to haul it off – the 5,000 pounds has only a $380 resale value.
“It’s one of the most unusual cases of theft we’ve had,” said Edmond police spokeswoman Glynda Chu.
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A gang of pint-sized thieves marched into an ice-cream parlor in Brazil, pulled a gun and demanded ice cream, candy and soda pop.
But the young culprits didn’t have a good getaway plan. Cops in Sao Paulo nabbed them a few blocks away, sitting on the curb, happily pigging out on their ill-gotten gains.
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Chamber-music fans got some food for thought when a quartet of performers walked onto the stage and began to play vegetables.
The concert featured carrots carved into flutes, oboes made of cucumbers, and pumpkins for percussion.
Organizers of the “Eat It” festival in Hamburg, Germany, also offered a three-course menu, served on a half-naked woman.