<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenough/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080821/ap_on_fe_st/odd_tasered_emu"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080821/capt.e55a2c37e2244cc7ad1c4e9a352eae74.odd_tasered_emu_flpan101.jpg?x=130&y=80&q=85&sig=mz7v07bcjicmnXhryoe8BA--" align="left" height="80" width="130" alt="Animal control officer Rochelle Ferrera rubs Plop-Plop, a female emu under the chin, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008,at the Bay County Animal Control Center in Panama City, Fla. Bay County Sheriff's deputies were forced to use a Taser to subdue Plop-Plop on Monday after she escaped from a farm last weekend. (AP Photo/The News Herald Panama City, Fla., Jonas Hogg)" border="0" /></a>AP - Bay County Sheriff's deputies were forced to use a Taser to subdue an escaped emu named Plop-Plop. The large female bird escaped from a farm last weekend and on Monday, she holed up with some horses and goats in a pen.</p><br clear="all"/>
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenough/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080821/ap_on_fe_st/odd_horse_smooching"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080821/capt.b0be7b1aec974182b65cde36b469b921.horse_smooching_utsal105.jpg?x=130&y=82&q=85&sig=mOA77vapMjGfT5GfXjTzSg--" align="left" height="82" width="130" alt="Davis County Commissioner Alan Hansen kisses 'Reno', a quarter horse owned by Scott Bass who works for the county, in Farmington, Ut., Tuesdaty, Aug. 19, 2008. County employees won a weight loss contest against the Davis Hospital. As a prize, their bosses, the county commissioners, kissed a cow during the County fair last week. Hansen was noticeably absent from the kiss, so they brought a horse to the courthouse for payback. (AP Photo/Keith Johnson, Deseret News)" border="0" /></a>AP - Lose a bet, kiss a horse. That's how Davis County Commissioner Alan Hansen found himself kissing a 3-year-old sand-colored horse named Reno.</p><br clear="all"/>
AP - A 22-year-old man was back behind bars about 12 hours after he was released from jail, accused of stealing a car and beer and leading police on a high-speed chase.
AP - A Grafton woman has been arrested and booked for failing to pay her library fines. Heidi Dalibor, 20, told the News Graphic in Cedarburg she ignored the library's calls and letters as well as a notice to appear in court.
AP - There are loyal customers, and then there's Joseph Macko. The 84-year-old Flint man has bought or leased a new Cadillac every year since 1955, the year Disneyland opened in Anaheim, Calif., and Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Ala., bus.
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenough/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080819/od_nm/ireland_pm_odd_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080819/2008_08_19t101734_450x324_us_ireland_pm_odd.jpg?x=130&y=93&q=85&sig=ok3OoZwhD2lhD3Ll1UIhYg--" align="left" height="93" width="130" alt="Ireland's Prime Minister Brian Cowen speaks during a breakfast before ringing the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange, July 16, 2008. (Chip East/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Ever wished your predecessor was there
to take the flak for the problems you inherited?</p><br clear="all"/>
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenough/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080818/od_nm/australia_ugly_odd_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080818/2008_08_18t090152_450x333_us_australia_ugly_odd.jpg?x=130&y=96&q=85&sig=Oh_GH1B4Wbkb_KKQfpyJ9g--" align="left" height="96" width="130" alt="A couple stands at the embankment of the Volga River in Samara, about 1000 km (620 miles) southeast of Moscow May 18, 2007. (Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - A plea for lovelorn female "ugly
ducklings" to move to a remote Australian mining town to
reverse a shortage of eligible women has landed the local mayor
in hot water.</p><br clear="all"/>
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenough/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080818/od_nm/bans_odd_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080818/2008_08_18t085851_450x287_us_bans_odd.jpg?x=130&y=82&q=85&sig=DCEeyIohsiRy05RoIZbcsA--" align="left" height="82" width="130" alt="Two sand sculptors carve a creation during the Sandcastle Festival in Zeebrugge, northern Belgium, June 23, 2002. (Thierry Roge/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - When in Capri, don't wander off the beach
in a bikini. If you go to the sea in Eraclea, near Venice,
remember that building sandcastles is forbidden. And don't even
think about mowing your lawn at the weekend in Forte dei Marmi.</p><br clear="all"/>
Reuters - Sprinkles Cupcakes, a California
purveyor of mini-cakes beloved by Hollywood stars, has accused
rival Famous Cupcakes of stealing its trademarked "Modern Dot"
cupcake design to lure away clientele.
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenough/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080821/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_mexico_crime_chips"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20080821/i/ra3901275968.jpg?x=99&y=130&q=85&sig=qDJippiix_x1lePfdfwZcg--" align="left" height="130" width="99" alt="A global positioning satellite is seen in a handout artist's rendering. REUTERS/Handout" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Wealthy Mexicans, terrified
of soaring kidnapping rates, are spending thousands of dollars
to implant tiny transmitters under their skin so satellites can
help find them tied up in a safe house or stuffed in the trunk
of a car.</p><br clear="all"/>
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenough/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080821/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_korea_golf"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20080821/i/ra3689821246.jpg?x=130&y=102&q=85&sig=Wdm4WHHmqNmBfAm0Lf8urg--" align="left" height="102" width="130" alt="South Korean President Lee Myung-bak waves from an airplane upon his departure at a military airport in Seoul, July 8, 2008. REUTERS/Jo Yong-Hak" border="0" /></a>Reuters - South Korea's President Lee Myung-bak has
told officials to give up golf for the moment because it sends
the wrong signal just as the economy has hit the rough.</p><br clear="all"/>
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenough/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080821/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_australia_whale"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20080821/i/ra4165107421.jpg?x=130&y=83&q=85&sig=gP79CMwZTYuqWmaFX_kpjg--" align="left" height="83" width="130" alt="A lost humpback whale calf swims beside a yacht in Pittwater, about 40 km (25 miles) north of Sydney, August 20, 2008. REUTERS/Daniel Munoz" border="0" /></a>Reuters - An baby whale which has been desperately
trying to suckle from a yacht in a Sydney bay in a futile bid
to find its missing mother is to be humanely destroyed,
Australian wildlife officers said on Thursday.</p><br clear="all"/>
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenough/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080820/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_japan_monkey"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20080820/i/ra395807191.jpg?x=130&y=85&q=85&sig=ADyDmAEEAoeWyUmA0WaPCA--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="Police officers are seen holding nets after seeking to catch a monkey at Tokyo's busy Shibuya station, August 20, 2008. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao" border="0" /></a>Reuters - A rogue monkey holed up at a Tokyo train
station for more than two hours on Wednesday before giving
dozens of net-wielding police officers the slip among crowds of
excited children and passersby.</p><br clear="all"/>
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenough/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080821/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_spain_debtors"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20080821/i/ra3814673480.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=eQ7j1HKlU3wmsUhCCHYLvQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Manfred Gunther of the Spanish company The Cobrador del Frac (The Debt Collector in Top Hat and Tails) takes an elevator in Madrid August 12, 2008. If more confirmation is needed of the funereal state of Spain's economy, it can be found in the shape of The Debt Collector in Top Hat and Tails. That's a translation to English of "El Cobrador del Frac", the name of a company which specialises in sending men dressed like extras from a 1930s Fred Astaire movie to humiliate debtors into paying up. Its business is booming. REUTERS/Juan Medina" border="0" /></a>Reuters - If more confirmation were needed of the
funereal state of Spain's economy, it can be found in the shape
of The Debt Collector in Top Hat and Tails.</p><br clear="all"/>
AP - The Lake County sheriff is behind bars — voluntarily. Sheriff Mark Curran said his goal is to talk to inmates so he can see the jail from their perspective. That way he can try to solve potential problems, such as safety issues, and better understand the inmate experience, he said.
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenough/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080820/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_tallest_title"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20080820/i/ra3874419093.jpg?x=89&y=130&q=85&sig=wMFeiWAAD2jQEvK0p.3r0g--" align="left" height="130" width="89" alt="China's Bao Xishun (R) poses during a presentation for the Guinness World Records in Beijing in this January 28, 2005 file photo. REUTERS/Jason Lee" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Guinness World Records has returned
the title of world's tallest man to China's Bao Xishun after
Ukrainian Leonid Stadnyk refused to be measured under new
guidelines.</p><br clear="all"/>
AP - You've heard of man bites dog. What about, dog saves cats? A two-year-old dog that had been turned over to the Nevada Humane Society's shelter in Reno is being credited with rescuing six abandoned kittens.
AP - Police in Wisconsin say a woman celebrated her birthday by helping her teenage son rob two gas stations. Officers in the Milwaukee suburb of Greenfield say the 37-year-old woman acted as the getaway driver while her 17-year-old son robbed the stations at gunpoint.
