Weird News

No. 1 health concern
Portland, Oregon ------- Portland is flushing 38 million gallons of drinking water down the drain because a 19-year-old man urinated in an open reservoir, city water officials said.
                                       Three teens were observed at the reservoir in a Portland park early in the morning, Portland Water Bureau spokesman David Shaff said, and one of them was filmed urinating through an iron fence into the water.
                                       The 50-million-gallon reservoir was taken off line and was tested for possible contamination.  But in the meantime, the city has decided to "discard" 38 million gallons of water and clean the reservoir, Shaff said.

Flashers are such a drag
Pittsburgh ------ A western Pennsylvania police officer said he spent much of December and January dressed as an Amish woman in hopes of scaring off a man suspected of exposing himself to Amish children.
                          Pulaski Township Sgt. Chad Adams said police weren't able to charge the man because of a lack of evidence.
                          But Adams said the flasher hasn't been seen in Pulaski, in Lawrence County, since around the same time a man was sentenced to house arrest in January for similar behavior in neighboring Mercer County.
                          "Sometimes being a police officer means going undercover and doing what you have to do to catch the bad guy," Adams wrote in a caption for a photo showing him in a blue dress, black cloak and bonnet.

We are .............naked
State College, Pa. --------- Penn State police said three male students who reportedly posed nude for a photo at the university's Nittany Lion Shrine face school discipline.
                                           Police told the Centre Daily Times that they responded to the shrine about after an employee reported seeing three naked people.
                                           Police arrived to find three fully clothed male students who were leaving the shrine, but then acknowledged taking the nude photo.

Big gulp
Charleston, S.C. ----------- A man who faced a $525 fine for refilling an 89-cent drink at a Veterans Affairs hospital apparently will get off with a warning.
                                           When Christopher Lewis of North Charleston, S.C., refilled his drink without paying, a federal police officer gave him a ticket.
                                           Veterans Affairs spokeswoman Tonya C. Lobbestael said after reviewing what happened at the Ralph C. Johnson Center in Charleston that officials decided a warning was sufficient.
                                           Lobbestael said the cafeteria at the center has signs posted in the drink machines indicating the cost of refills.  Failing to pay for the refills is considered shoplifting.