Weird News

Dino forever encoring in suburban tree
Brookline, Mass.  ---------------------------  A cockatoo with the screech of a dinosaur is vexing residents of a tony Boston suburb.
                                                                     The white bird, named Dino because of his annoying call, flew away from his owner in July and into the trees of Brookline.
                                                                     He's been gnawing on the woodwork of the Nancy Gertner's historic home.  Gertner is a retired federal judge and senior lecturer at Harvard Law School.
                                                                     The Boston Globe reports animal control officials were called and no one will trap the bird.  Gertner may have to make peace with Dino; she's run out of ideas to get rid of him.

College goes the limit for retired math whiz
Amherst, Mass. ----------------------------   A Massachusetts college has changed all the speed-limit signs on campus to honor a retired mathematics professor who spent his career fascinated by the number 17.
                                                                    The speed-limit change from 15 mph to 17 mph at Hampshire College was made at the request of the professor, David Kelly.  He didn't want a retirement party when he stepped down after 45 years on the faculty at the college in Amherst.
                                                                    Kelly knows countless facts about 17, the seventh prime number.  He says it has had broad applications in mathematics and other disciplines.   There are many fun facts about 17, including that there are 17 columns on the long side of the Parthenon in Greece.

Ultimate frequent flyers : Bees
Grapevine, Texas -------------------------   A cargo crew found hundreds of bees under the right wing of a Boeing 767 that landed at Dallas-Fort Worth Airport.  The plane had arrived from Las Vegas and was headed to Frankfurt, Germany.
                                                                   American Airlines spokeswoman Andrea Huguely said a beekeeper and the airline's team did a "sweet job" taking care of the situation.  No one was stung.
                                                                   Huguely says the beekeeper safely removed the queen and the swarm.  But the queen's scent apparently lingered.  Bees quickly headed for the same spot.
                                                                   The beekeeper returned and removed those bees, allowing the flight to eventually take off.

Her clothes are clean, but not her record
Shenandoah, Pa. --------------------------   A Pennsylvania woman has been jailed on charges she broke into a neighbor's home, where she was caught doing her laundry in the bathtub.
                                                                   The Pocono Record reports Kelly Bancroft, 44, of Shenandoah, was charged with burglary and criminal trespass.
                                                                   A woman who lives down the street from Bancroft told police she went to use the bathroom about 4:30 p.m. and found Bancroft next to the tub, which was full of water, clothes and shampoo.
                                                                  When the woman asked Bancroft how she got in the apartment, Bancroft locked the bathroom door and the resident summoned a neighbor to help.  When that person arrived, Bancroft had run away, leaving wet clothes everywhere.
                                                                  Online court records don't list an attorney for Bancroft, who faces a preliminary hearing.