Linc and Helena Moore may have finally learned the answer to that age-old question: Why did the chicken cross the road? Because the chicken doesn't know jaywalking is illegal. Kern County Sheriff's Deputy J. Nicholson does know, however. The deputy issued a ticket March 26 because one of the couple's chickens allegedly impeded traffic in Johannesburg, a rural mining community near Ridgecrest, some 220 miles northeast of Los Angeles. (ABC News)
A chicken that got a ticket for crossing the road has clawed his way out of it. The $54 citation for impeding traffic was dismissed Friday after Linc and Helena Moore's attorney argued that the fowl was domesticated and could not be charged as livestock. (CNN.com)
A hi-tech washing machine called Your Turn could soon enforce gender equality in every British household. Pep Torres, a Spanish designer, has exploited fingerprint recognition technology to subvert what was supposed to be the perfect Father's Day gift. (The Guardian)
Eine Amerikanerin hat sich trotz eines Haftbefehls bei der Polizei beworben. Statt der erhofften Einstellung sei Laurie Ralston beim Vorstellungsgespräch festgenommen worden, sagte Joseph Kucirek von der Polizeidienststelle in Amherst im Bundesstaat Ohio. (SZOn)
A West Virginia man _ branded a "serial litterer" by a Virginia prosecutor _ was banned from a border county for two years for repeatedly driving across the state line to dump trash. (ABC 7 News)
Gregory Alston called police Tuesday morning to say his white Nissan Maxima had been stolen from in front of his apartment building. Trouble is, the car wasn't his. Police say he had stolen it at gunpoint two weeks earlier. The only reason he couldn't find it was because the victim had spotted it and called police, who towed it away. (South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
