Weird News

The adult world of finance
Boston -------------------------   The words "free" and "fun" are not the first things that come to mind when talking about the Massachusetts Department of Adiminstration and Finance.
                                                  Yet a typo in a phone number on a news release issued by the agency sent media inquiries to a "free and fun party line" advertising adult hotlines.
                                                  The Boston Herald reports that the release declaring October as Cyber Security Awareness Month mistakenly substituted area code "617" instead of "857" in a spokesman's number.
                                                  Department chief of staff Dominick lanno says the error was an obvious typo since "nothing is free and fun in the Executive Office for Administration and Finance".
                                                  The mistake was quickly corrected.
                                                  The incorrect number also instructed callers on how to set up small businesses to receive commissions for satellite TV referrals.

Hamburgled statue returned home
Northhampton, Mass. -------   A Ronald McDonald statue taken from a western Massachusetts home during a teenage house party has been found.
                                                  The 3-foot high statue of the McDonald's mascot was turned over to Northampton police by a McDonald's employee who found it next to a trash bin outside a health club.
                                                  That person turned it over when he read about the missing statue in Daily Hampshire Gazette.
                                                  Mary Ryan says her husband bought the sculpture of a kneeling Ronald from an antique store years ago for $1,200.  They think it dates to 1972.
                                                  It disappeared in August when their teenage daughter hosted an unauthorized party at their summer home in Leverett.  It was seen in a tree and outside the health club, before the trail went cold.

DUI for reckless wheelchair shopper
Conyers, Ga. ------------------  A Conyers man has been accused of DUI and public drunkenness while operating a motorized wheelchair inside a grocery store.
                                                 Multiple media outlets are reporting that 48-year-old Danny W. Mitchell was cited at a Kroger supermarket.
                                                 According to an incident report, Conyers police who were called to the scene found a disheveled Mitchell backing into the building and driving over plants.  Mitchell was cited after he submitted to a breath test.  The results of the test were redacted from the incident report.
                                                 Police say Mitchell told officers that he had taken the anti-anxiety medication Valium, the anti-depressant trazadone and had drunk a pint of alchol.
                                                 Mitchell told WSB-TV that he can barely walk and was at the grocery store to get a prescription filled.