Weird News #2

Cyclist spills on dead buffalo
Johannesburg ------------------- Cyclists in South Africa's biggest city usually worry about getting hit by vehicles.  But one cyclist rode into an unexpected obstacle in Johannesburg's suburbs: a dead buffalo.
                                                    Andrew McLean said yesterday that he damaged a ligament on his collarbone and broke his hand when he hit the buffalo carcass while riding downhill at up to 37 miles an hour in Fourways, a suburban area in northern Johannesburg.
                                                    "It just looked like a huge shadow," said McLean, a veteran cyclist who runs a chain of cycling stores.  "At the last minute, I suddenly realized that this was more than a shadow."
                                                    On Twitter, McLean described the episode as his 'only in Africa' accident."

No mac & cheese OR taters?  C'mon, Roy
Newburg, Pa. --------------------  State police say a New York man became angry when he couldn't get macaroni and cheese at a Pennsylvania Turnpike rest stop, then furious when the same restaurant was out of potatoes.
                                                     Kevin Nelson, 47, of Amsterdam, was cited for disorderly conduct.
                                                     Police say Nelson stopped at a Roy Rogers at a rest stop in Hopewell Township, Cumberland County then became "angry and agitated and began to curse" after learning the restaurant was out of macaroni and cheese.
                                                     Police say Nelson then got coffee from another vendor, and returned to order potatoes at the Roy Rogers.  Told they were out of potatoes, too, Nelson allegedly became enraged and began throwing condiments over the counter.

Drunks : Leave Boo-Boo alone
North Adams, Mass. ------------ Police in Massachusetts have some sage advice : Don't go chasing after bears while drunk and armed with nothing more than a dull hatchet.
                                                     The North Adams Police Department wrote on its Facebook page that someone did just that.  The department noted that the drunken man was taken into protective custody.
                                                     No name was released.
                                                     Police say anyone who sees a bear should leave it alone and call authorities.  They say they don't want to see anyone "going all Davy Crockett."

Pup just lion down for a bit on yacht
San Diego ------------------------- A surprising stowaway startled a man out on his boat in San Diego: A sea lion pup that decided to crash in a bunk, waking the owner with his snoring.
                                                     Michael Duffy, 48, said he was on his 41-foot Kettenburg boat "Elixir" at the San Diego Yacht Club when he awoke at 2:30 a.m. to sneezing and snoring.
                                                     He thought it might be a friend, crashing from a night out, but couldn't find anyone.  Once it got light a few hours later, however, he heard it again.
                                                     That's when Duffy saw a 35-pound sea lion pup on another bunk, curled up like a dog on top of his board shorts.
                                                     Duffy said the pup was probably looking for his mom but found him instead.