Week of the Weird

Just because it was a short work-week doesn't mean there was a lack of odd happenings. This week's weird roundup is chock full of undue allegations, questionably good deeds, and buried treasure. Enjoy!

Overreacting?

An Oregon man spent Memorial Day in jail after dialing 911 at a McDonald's. 20-year-old Raibin Osman claimed a worker was rude to him and didn't give him an orange juice he ordered. Amid this fiasco, a McDonald's employee also called 911 to complain that Osman and the people with him were blocking the drive-thru lane and knocking on the restaurant windows. Osman was charged with improper usage of the emergency telephone number.

Usually when you attempt to give someone a high-five and miss, you call it awkward. Well, an El Paso school principal called it assault. Superintendent Lorenzo Garcia was giving principals high-fives to celebrate state test scores, but when he came to elementary school principal Mary Helen Lechuga and she didn't raise her hand, he tapped her on the head instead. Lechuga, a former district administrator who was recently demoted, struck back by filing a police complaint saying she felt pain and feared what Garcia might do next.

U.S. immigration officers detained a Singaporean cancer patient for four hours when they could not detect his fingerprints – which had apparently disappeared because of a drug he was taking. The drug, capecitabine, is commonly used to treat cancers in the head and neck, breast, stomach and colorectum. The patient, a 62-year-old man, had head and neck cancer that had spread and was put on capecitabine to prevent the cancer from recurring.

Good deeds?

A convenience store clerk in Fort Smith, Ark. gave $40 from his own pocket to a robber who told him he needed money to buy insulin. According to the clerk, the robber accepted the money, thanked him and shook his hand. Police are still searching for the robber.

An 81-year-old Ohio man thought he was helping the city prepare a pothole for repair by chipping away loose material with a pickaxe. Police, however, didn't think so, and charged James Stacey with criminal damaging. Stacy said he cleared the 3-foot-wide hole because he expected a crew to patch it and wanted the patch to last longer. The public works manager replied that Stacey’s "help" actually created a greater safety hazard.

Lapdogs Chiquita the Chihuahua and Rosie the Border Terrier reportedly chased off a cougar that strayed into a small town in Oregon. The cougar had pinned down Rosie, who squealed, but Chiquita caused the big cat to flee by barking ferociously. Both dogs are said to be doing fine. The cougar, however, is probably somewhere hiding from embarrassment.

Eureka!

When installing a water system to a home in southern Peru, workers were shocked to discover a five-million-year-old sloth fossil. The 10-foot long sloth was an herbivore and lived during the Mio-Pliocene era, according to a paleontologist of Peru's Natural History. It's also about four million years older than similar ones discovered in the Americas.

A fire at an old Milwaukee public school resulted in an unusual find: an American flag left in an unused attic for more than 100 years. The flag is said to be from 1897 and has just 45 stars, representing the number of states at that time. The flag has signs of wear, including some tears, and is believed to have been in the attic for 112 years. School officials said they plan to restore and display the flag.

Worried about her parents' financial problems, an Australian student rifled through a stack of old lottery tickets to find she had won $10 million. The student received the winning ticket, which would have expired in two months, last year as a gift from her father.

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