Quirky World: Homeowner in spotlight after Santa pours scorn on IS and neighbour fails to spot joke
Deputies paid a visit to a southern Maine home after its ownerâs raunchy anti-terrorist Christmas light display was misconstrued as support for Islamic State, also known as ISIS.
The reports the homeowner, who wasnât identified, used lights to spell out the word âISISâ on a board below the deck of the home.
York County Sheriff William King says that was all a concerned resident saw when he notified the office of a potential ISIS sympathiser.
What he didnât see, however, was the illuminated plastic Santa Claus placed atop the deck that appeared to be urinating on the word ISIS via a strand of white lights.
King says no laws were broken and the homeowner will rearrange the lights to âclear up any doubts about his messageâ.
A businessman who had 190 Christmas trees stolen has said the callous thieves âalmost ruinedâ the season for his customers.
Saqib Shabbir, 33, whose CCTV captured men taking the trees from his Manchester shop and loading them into a van, said he had been left âheartbrokenâ.
Shabbir, who owns Khawja Brothers Mini Market, was forced to ask for help from his family to stump up the cost of buying more trees â so families are not left without a tree this Christmas.
Three suburban Detroit teachers fell ill after eating marijuana-laced brownies put out in a school lounge, authorities have said.
Oakland County sheriffâs officials said deputies were called to Spring Hills Elementary School in Highland Township on a tainted food complaint. A teacher became ill the day before and later tested positive for marijuana in hospital and police said two other teachers felt sick but did not seek medical treatment.
The deputies recovered the remaining brownies and tests revealed they contained the active ingredient in marijuana.
Huron Valley Schools officials said they are working with law enforcement to determine who brought the brownies to school.
A Massachusetts woman is fashioning furs out of roadkill and hoping to change an entire industry in the process.
Pamela Paquin is owner of Petite Mort Fur, a company she founded two years ago to make neck muffs, leg warmers, hats, purses, and more from roadkill. She prefers to call it âaccidental furâ.
Paquin hopes to offer the fur industry an alternative to wild trapping and large-scale fur farms. But the industry is not completely sold on the idea. Its trade group says North American furs are already ethically and environmentally responsible.
A series of bizarre rituals have taken place ahead of the historic launch to the International Space Station by a team that includes the first fully British professional astronaut.
The day before the launch, it is custom for all cosmonauts to watch a Russian cult movie and, before leaving the hotel to suit up, Major Tim Peake complied with another tradition by signing his hotel room door.
Another practice, one that is spoken about but never witnessed by anyone outside the inner circle of the astronaut corps, is that, on their way to the launch pad, the crew members step out of their bus at a hidden location and urinate on its wheels.
A man in one Utah community says his neighbours have begun placing decoy packages on front porches in an effort to thwart delivery thieves.
Rocks, old clothes, and junk televisions are among items that resident Kroger Menzer says residents in the Daybreak neighbourhood of South Jordan have been putting in shipping boxes.
âThe goal isnât to catch them in the act, thatâs for the police,â Menzer told KSL-TV. âThe goal is to make it confusing and frustrating, so thereâs a good chance that theyâre probably not going to come back to steal another box.â
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