Weird News

Someone call Locks of Love
Kodiak, Alaska --------- If you've seen a lot of longhaired men on Alaska's Kodiak Island, this might be the reason.
                                       A new study finds the city of Kodiak has the priciest men's haircut in the nation, on average, at $26.67 a cut.  The national average is $13.95.  The figure is in a state Labor Department report comparing cost of living data for more than 300 cities.

Great fall too much, Humpty Dumpty to be rebuilt
Salem, Ore. ------------- The nursery rhyme proved right: Humpty Dumpty couldn't be put together again.
                                      But the owner of an Oregon tourist attraction vows to build Humpty anew.  Last weekend, two men planning a photograph jumped on the wall where the statue of rebar, cement, sand and plaster had sat for 40 years.
                                      And, you know how it goes: Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
                                      Sculptor Roger Tofte said Humpty was in too many pieces to fix, but the two men offered to pay for a new one.  He said it will take a month to build.

Pig threatens kids walking through Maine woods
Oakland, Maine ------- Police in this Maine town are looking for a pig that threatened two children were walking through the woods.
                                      Capt. Rick Stubbert said the children were walking along a trail in the wooded area between the local middle school and the high school about 1:45 p.m. Tuesday when the pig confronted them "screaming at the kids and chasing them."
                                       Officers, including animal control, responded to the pig was real, they didn't find the animal.

Pilot buys pizzas for stranded passingers
Cheyenne, Wyo. -------- Faced with potentially hungry ------ and grumpy ------- passengers, a Frontier Airlines pilot treated them to pizza when storms diverted a Denver-bound flight to Cheyenne, where the plane was stuck for a couple of hours.
                                       Cheyenne Domino's Pizza manager Andrew Ritchie said he got a call about 10 p.m. Monday just as he was about to send employees home.  Ritchie said pilot Gerhard Bradner told him he needed to feed 160 people ------ fast.
                                        Ritchie said his crew delivered about 35 pizzas to the airport, where the driver handed the food off to flight attendants.

Pennsylvania man's draft notice was 102 years late
Kennerdell, Pa. --------- A Pennsylvania woman said her late father received notice to register for the nation's military draft ----- 102 years too late.
                                       Martha Weaver, now in her 80s, said the Selective Service System notice arrived last Saturday in Rockland Township, Venango County.  The notice warns that failure to register is "punishable by a fine and imprisonment."  Her father, who would have turned 18 in 1912, died in 1992.
                                       Weaver suspects the confusion was spawned by the incorrect birth date on the form, which lists the birth year as 1994.