July 15, 2010

111 Nekkid People Try To Set A Record

Los Gatos, CA (AP) More than 100 people with nothing on but sunscreen and smiles crowded into a San Francisco Bay area swimming pool over the weekend in an attempt to set a skinny dipping record.

The 111 naked people in the pool at a Los Gatos nudist resort took part in a series of efforts on Saturday to establish a record tracked by a group calling itself the American Association For Nude Recreation.

Organizers say besides the event in Los Gatos, there were about 100 other record-breaking attempts across the country.

In order to be counted in the competition, all the participants had to be at the same location at exactly noon. A picture taken of the gathering in Los Gatos will be submitted to determine which group broke the skinny dipping record.

Naked Mannequin A Source

Of Shame? Priorities, People!

Beatrice, NE (AP) Residents who complained about a nearly naked female store mannequin prompted police to conceal the window display and stirred a debate about obscenity.

Police covered the window at Hannah’s Treasures for about a day last week after several people in the southeast Nebraska city of 12,500 complained about the mannequin with a pair of pants around its ankles and wearing shoes but no other clothing.

City Attorney Tobias Tempelmeyer said Monday he had yet to receive all the police reports on the semi-naked mannequin.

“We’re not able at this point to issue a determination whether it’s obscene or not,” Tempelmeyer said.

The owner of the closed shop later dressed the offending mannequin in a bikini.

Store owner Kevin Kramer’s lawyer, Dustin Garrison, didn’t immediately respond to a message Monday, but he told the Beatrice Daily Sun that Kramer might sue over the dispute.

“Nothing about a naked mannequin constitutes obscenity,” Garrison said to the Beatrice Daily Sun. “I think we’ve all gone into a department store and seen a naked mannequin at one point in our lives.”

Kramer said the shop in Beatrice was closed because he was in the process of moving his business to Lincoln.

Tempelmeyer said the dispute was resolved amicably, and that he was OK with the mannequin wearing a bikini.

NH Priest With Nothing Else To

Do Will Look For Jesus In Flag

Candia, NH (AP) A Catholic priest in New Hampshire plans to visit a Candia water park to see if he can see the face of Jesus in the park’s lifeguard flag. The owner of the Liquid Planet Water Park said that when the flag was unfurled earlier this season staff saw what looked to them like a shadowy image of Jesus Christ. Kevin Dumont said he had been praying for a miracle to improve business. Since the flag was opened, there have been a string of perfect days and business is up 200 percent.

The New Hampshire Union Leader said Father Volney “Von” DeRosia from St. Joseph’s Church in Epping will visit the park Thursday to try to determine if the image could have been intentionally fabricated.

With Friends Like This, Who Needs Enemies?

Las Cruces, NM (AP) A 47-year-old man’s friends set his prosthetic leg on fire after he lost a drinking bet, causing him to suffer severe burns to his buttocks and lower back. Dona Ana County sheriff’s deputies found the man naked on the side of U.S. Route 70 with his prosthetic leg in flames. Deputies learned that the man and his friends were drinking Monday and bet that whoever drank the least would be set on fire.

The man told investigators that at six beers, he drank the least, and agreed to let his friends set him on fire.

He said his friends ignited his prosthetic leg, and the flames spread to his body. The sheriff’s office said the man took his clothes off because of the pain and his friends decided to take him to the hospital. But they got nervous and instead dropped him off on the side of the highway.

The man was taken to a Texas burn treatment center.

Chili Pepper Delivery Spices Up Remote Seed Vault

Washington (AP) Wenk’s Yellow Hots, Pico de Gallos and the unpredictably hot San Juan “Tsiles” chili peppers have safely arrived at a “doomsday” vault in the Arctic.

Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., says he and other congressmen delivered seeds from the pepper varieties on Sunday to a Norwegian seed bank on the remote Svalbard archipelago.

Operators say the Svalbard Global Seed Vault has the world’s most diverse repository of crop seeds and is a safeguard against war or natural disasters that could wipe out food crops. The seeds came from a Department of Agriculture collection in Colorado. In addition to peppers, seeds for plants including peanuts and melons were sent to the vault.

Bad Set Of Teeth End The Deal For Man In Florida

Gainesville, FL (AP) A man went to the police after getting robbed by a woman he intended to pay for sex, but refused when she flashed a smile full of bad teeth. The man told investigators he and a 25-year-old woman were negotiating a price until he noticed her dental problems. He told police that after he resisted, she snatched a checkbook containing $78 from his shirt pocket and fled.

The man told authorities the woman did not realize that he had tucked a wad of cash into her bra and that she got scared and ran away.

The woman was arrested on a robbery charge.

Gainesville police said it was unlikely the man would face misdemeanor charges for solicitation, because he was the victim of a felony.

If It Can Get You In Trouble.... DON’T Post It On Facebook

Belfast, ME (AP) A 36-year-old man was arrested on Monday and faces a felony arson charge after he allegedly set a Mercedes-Benz on fire and then posted photos of the burning vehicle on Facebook. The Bangor Daily News said the arrest came two weeks after police found the burning 1982 Mercedes.

Police said the man told officers he saw the car with a “small campfire” in the back seat.

The Bangor Daily News said the charge came after police scrutinized surveillance tape from a Belfast store and seized the man’s cell phones and computer.

Police said the owner of the non-working car had been trying to sell it.

Just Another Drunk, Ridin’ On A Lawn Mower

Madrid, IA (AP) A middle-of-the-night ride on a lawn mower landed one Iowa man in jail.

The Boone County Sheriff’s Office says deputies stopped the man on Highway 17 near Madrid around 1 a.m. Wednesday after receiving reports of someone driving a mower all over the road with no headlights. Madrid is about 25 miles northwest of Des Moines.

The man was arrested for drunken driving. The Sheriff’s Office says his blood-alcohol level was .190, well above Iowa’s limit of .08.

Boone County Sheriff Ron Fehr says it’s illegal in Iowa to drive any kind of motor vehicle anywhere while drunk.

Fehr wasn’t sure how fast the man was going on the six-speed Bolens lawn tractor. The Des Moines Register reports that the top speed for that mower is about 5 mph.