| Pez sues museum over giant dispenser The company that makes Pez candy is suing a California museum, seeking to have a giant Pez dispenser created by the owners destroyed.Pez Candy Inc.  Wash. couple bring home baby giraffe A Washington state couple said they drove to Virginia and back for their latest exotic pet -- a 26-day-old giraffe.John and Jane Schreiner said they paid a large, large sum for Karson, a baby giraffe born at the Natural Bridge Zoo near Roanoke, Va., and arrived home with the animal Friday after a cross-country drive, The (Spokane, Wash.) Spokesman-Review reported Tuesday.The couple said Karson will live in their Spokane County home for about four months before moving to the 12,000-acre Schreiner Farms ranch, which John Schreiner co-owns with his brother Joe.He may be the only giraffe ever to be raised as a pet in Spokane, John Schreiner said.The ranch already houses three adult giraffes, in addition to zebras, bison and camels.The couple said they do not believe local officials will have any objection to Karson staying in their home while he grows.He's not a carnivore, which is the one concern the county and states are right to control people from raising, John Schreiner said. Bear attacks man for his hoagie A New Jersey man said a black bear attacked him in his driveway and stole his Italian hoagie. Henry Rouwendal said he was in the driveway of his Vernon home at about 10:30 p.m. N.Z. airline crew strip down for safety A New Zealand airline has created an in-flight and online hit with a safety video featuring a pilot and cabin crew dressed only in body paint. The Air New Zealand Bare essentials of safety video features the pilot and crew going through the plane's safety procedures while dressed only 10-foot python caught in New York Police said a 10-foot python discovered in a New York couple's driveway may have been a pet that was released once it became too large to keep. John and Karen Trapani said they discovered the snake in their driveway as they were preparing to leave for work Wednesday morning, the New York Post reported Thursday. It was startling, because we never got to see something like this before -- weird but true, John Trapani said. It was like watching the Discovery Channel, Karen Trapani said. Police arrived at about 9 a.m. Scottish legislators snub Queen Elizabeth More than one-third of the members of the Scottish Parliament failed to show up for a speech by Queen Elizabeth II marking the body's 10th anniversary. Officials were drafted at the last minute Wednesday evening to fill the places of the missing members so the queen would not be addressing a phalanx of empty seats, The Times of London reported. Car hit by mystery sheet metal from sky Insurance won't fully cover a Canadian woman's replacement windshield in Winnipeg because no one knows from where the sheet metal that fell on it came. Winnipeg Sun employee Tanya Slusarczyk was reading in her parked car during the weekend as she waited for her boyfriend to finish work on Dems: Ripping off Obama's Web site a no-no O no -- Maine Democrats are accusing a potential Republican state legislative candidate of ripping off President Barack Obama's Web site. State Republicans say it's a case of pettiness, the Bangor Daily News reported Thursday. The Maine Democratic Party said Wednesday presumptive Republican candidate Les Otten's Web site was awfully similar to Obama's, with graphics built around the letter O. Republicans just don't get it, Arden Manning, state Democratic party executive director, said in a statement. News Wizard |