It’s cow power up in the New England hills.
Vermont’s Green Mountain College is using cow dung – the bovines relieve themselves at a rate of 13 gallons a day – to generate power for the 750-student campus and cut its greenhouse, er, gas emissions.
Officials say the reduction in carbon emissions will be the equivalent of 758 passenger cars a year. (m)
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A 15-year-old Florida boy stole an Orlando city bus and casually drove it along its regular route, picking up passengers and collecting fares.
Ritchie Calvin Davis, who is too young to drive, bragged to the cops who busted him, “I drove that bus better than most of the [regular] drivers could. There isn’t a scratch on it.
“I know how to start it, drive it, lower it, raise it.”
Davis has a similar prior rap, details of which were unavailable. (s, lcf)
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A Georgia spiritual counselor is considering suing his town because officials made off with a half-ton Jesus from his front yard.
Nickie Marks, of Greensboro, said the 1,000-pound religious icon went the way of its predecessor as officials unjustly hauled it away.
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In Manila, down-on-their-luck slum dwellers are starting to battle for space with the dead – having moved into a sprawling cemetery.
Manila North Cemetery, the largest in the Philippines, has become a favorite squatting place for hundreds evicted from their homes.
“So far, we have not seen any ghosts here,” joked Virginia Bernardino, 59, one of the tenants. “I think that only happens in the movies. As the saying goes, we should fear not the dead but the living.”
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A headmistress at an elementary school in Kristiansand, Norway, got the bright idea of telling boys they had to learn to urinate while seated on the toilet.
A number of parents and politicians unloaded with a geyser of complaints. One parent accused the school of “fiddling with God’s work,” while a politician said “It’s a human right [for a boy] not to have to sit down like a girl.”
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Thanks, boss.
When Colombian President Alvaro Uribe gave a recent speech about exposing corruption, he wasn’t just talking the talk.
The mayor’s secretary, sitting in the front row, found out the big cheese was talking about him.
“You are unworthy to carry out your duties,” Uribe said, wagging his finger as two plainclothes officers escorted the official from the hall. Seems the man tried to get a naval officer to fork over a stash of captured cocaine.