Two Midwestern newborns will forever embrace the number 8.
Hailey Jo Hauer and Xander Jace Riniker were both born at 8:08 a.m. last Friday – 8/8/08 – and weighed in at 8 pounds, 8 ounces.
Xander, by the way, is the eighth grandchild for his mom’s parents.
Why did the chicken cross the road? In the case of Jerry Sleater’s 5-foot, 400-pound, bright-blue rooster, that’s apparently as far as whoever was trying to steal it could get.
Thieves who tried to swipe the statue from Sleater, 76, barely moved it off his property in Eastern Washington.
Sleater thinks whoever was trying to steal “Rudy” got spooked after pushing the oversized rooster down a dirt embankment.
Here are three words that might give even most snack-happy eater pause: chocolate-covered bacon.
It sounds so wrong but tastes just right, according to Joseph Marini III, a fourth-generation candy maker selling bacon bonbons at the Santa Cruz (Calif.) Boardwalk.
“It’s not just for breakfast any more,” he joked.
West Virginia cops busted a man who allegedly tried to rob a video store with an empty cheesecake box.
Paul Parrish II, 43, of Charleston placed the box on the counter of the Movie Gallery with a note saying it contained a bomb, police said.
The clerk refused, and Parrish fled. He was soon arrested and allegedly told cops he needed money for gas and cigarettes.
A Burrillville, RI, town councilor got more than he bargained for when he won a used police cruiser at auction.
Kevin Blais bought the 2004 Crown Victoria in an online auction from the Hartford, Conn., Public Works Department, and found a bag of coke inside.
Blais speculates a suspect stuffed the drugs through a seat crack to prevent cops from finding it.