The pungent aroma filled the air as the brides – all three of them – walked down the aisle. It was the delicate scent of flowers, mixed with . . . hamburgers?
Three couples were wed on Valentine’s Day in the place they love – White Castle. The ceremonies were held in Columbus, Ohio, the home of the castle, whose slogan is “What You Crave”.
Brian and Cyndie Nunamaker Wilson of Plain City, 17 miles northwest of Columbus, said they chose the wedding alternative because they love White Castle.
Flower girls threw salt and pepper packets, and employee name tags embellished the grooms’ lapels at the morning ceremony. The cake resembled a White Castle tray with fries, a drink and a three pack of the castle’s “sliders”, all made of cake and frosting.
The wacky weddings were broadcast live on a local radio station, which paid for the flowers and other arrangements.
Post Card Delivered after 79 Years
Neither rain, nor sleet, nor hail, nor – time – can delay the mail.
A post card with a one-cent stamp was delivered to Michael Cioffi of Sparhawk Street February 13, 2008. It was dated June 1929, nearly eight decades later.
The card, addressed to “Miss Margaret McDonald” of Boston, was of Yellowstone National Park’s Tower Falls, and carried a one word message, “Greetings”.
Cioffi, who lives at the residence, was surprised to receive the 79-year-old card. He said the intended recipient may have been a member of the family who had once been in possession of the Victorian for several generations.
There was no return address on the card and Cioffi said he doesn’t think there are any members of the McDonald family left in the area.
A U. S. Postal Service spokesperson said it was impossible to know how or why the card was delayed.
Call Police – Get Phone sex
Callers to the Michigan State Police post in Bridgeport, February 13, were wondering if they’d gotten a wrong number when their inquiries were met with a recording for phone sex.
The message told callers to “indulge yourself with the most exciting conversation imaginable”, and then gave the number for a phone sex line. The phones were in working order by midmorning, according to Sgt. Alan Renz, who added that the matter was an “internal issue that has nothing to do with the phone company”, and an investigation is underway.
Moose Falls off Cliff – Narrowly misses Trooper
Look! Up in the sky!
It’s a bird! It’s a plane!
It’s a moose?
Alaska State Trooper Howard Peterson had seen plenty of falling rocks where he patrolled, but when something big and black came falling about 20 feet in front of his patrol car as he was driving on the Seward Highway south of Anchorage February 2, the last thing he expected was a moose.
Peterson said the moose had apparently fallen from the cliff about 150 feet above the highway, where Dall sheep are often seen.
He added the wind was up that night, and a gust may have startled the animal into falling.
The animal was handled the same way as other road kille, according to officer Peterson. After taking pictures, he called one of the charities that salvage road kill.
Wildlife biologist Rick Sinnott said he had heard of moose dying in strange ways, such as jumping off railroad bridges at the sound of a train, falling off small banks, or breakng through ice and drowning.
Once he related seeing the remains of two bulls that died during a rutting battle when their antlers got hooked together by a single piece of barbed wire.
And while a fall off a cliff probably doesn’t happen very often, Sinnott says, “They occasionally have bad days like the rest of us. They slip and fall. Maybe he was reaching for a branch and the snow just gave way.”
We Accept Credit Not Contraband
An 18-year-old customer who made a deposit at a Kitsap Credit Union in Bremerton, Washington was arrested and charged with possession, according to court records after she allegedly dropped a bag of suspicious powder along with her money.
A bank employee reported the deposit to police following the woman’s double deposits.
Officers said she might have mistakenly included the bag when she retrieved her money from her pocket.
And you thought your kids were little beasts!
A civil liberties group and an English commissioner have joined together to campaign against high-frequency devices aimed at children.
English Children’s Commissioner Al Aynsley-Greene has asked for the banning of the “Mosquito”, a device which emits a high frequency noise both audible and annoying to young people, but not to those over 20.
The device is intended to drive misbehaving children away from shops and other areas. Aynsley-Greene said Tuesday, “This device is a quick fix that does not tackle the root cause of the problem and it is indiscriminate.”
The devices do not tackle the real issue, which is the lack of a place where children may gather other than on the streets, Aynsley-Greene said in an interview with the British Broadcasting Corporation radio.
“I think it is a powerful symptom of what I call the malaise at the heart of our society. I’m very concerned about what I see to be an emerging gap between the young and the old, the fears, the intolerance, even the hatred of the older generation toward the young.”
Shami Chakrabarti agrees. He is the director of Liberty, one of England’s civil rights groups, and a supporter of the campaign.
“Imagine the outcry if a device was introduced that caused blanket discomfort to people of one race or gender, rather than to our kids,:” Chakrabarti said. “The Mosquito has no place in a country that values its children and seeks to nstill them with dignity and respect.”
The machine’s inventor, Howard Stapleton, has asked for agreement about guidelines for using the device.
“We tell shopkeepers to use it when they have a problem and I would be more than happy to introduce a contract which stipulates to shopkeepers how it can be used,” Stapleton was quoted as saying.
“People talk about infringing human rights but what about the human rights of the shopkeeper who is seeing his business collapse because groups of unruly teenagers are driving away his customers?”
There are about 3,500 of the Mosquitoes in use, campaigners claim of the Welch-made device.
Being Late For Court is No Excuse
Bladimir Abarca, 22, of Tualitin, Oregon, was trying to get to court in Portland when he was caught in Baker County – for speeding.
Abarca was traveling 130 miles an hour in his black 2000 Ford Mustang when he was stopped about six miles north of Baker City and jailed. He was later released on bail.
A passenger in the vehicle, Abarca’s brother-in-law, Matthew Noriega, 23, was cited on a charge of possession of less than an ounce of pot.
