Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe Teen returns $24,000 in untraceable bills NEW YORK, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- A Long Island, N.Y., college student has returned $24,000 in untraceable $100 bills he found while at his job cleaning a movie theater. Advertisement "It's no big deal," Christopher Montgomery, 19, said -- through his mother, because he was embarrassed at the attention. But it was indeed a big deal to RoseMarie Limoncelli, 39. She runs a business and did not make it to the bank before going with her 8-year-old daughter to see "Happy Feet" at a local movie theater. Halfway through the film, daughter Sabrina climbed onto Limoncelli's lap. To make room for her daughter, Limoncelli slid her purse under her seat, where it tipped over. The bank pouch must have fallen out in the dark, she told Newsday. On the way home, stopping for ice cream, Limoncelli made the blood-chilling discovery. Advertisement "My heart stopped," she said. "My whole body was shaking." She frantically called the theater and -- miracle of miracles -- the money was there. Montgomery had handed the pouch to his manager. Montgomery refused a cash reward, but Limoncelli says she hopes he'll at least accept a gift certificate to a local consumer electronics store. Nevada brothel awarded trademark name SPARKS, Nev., Dec. 18 (UPI) -- A Nevada judge has ruled that the owner of a brothel can begin using its trademark name of Mustang Ranch. The Reno (Nev.) Gazette-Journal reported that Lance Gilman, the owner of the Wild Horse brothel, was awarded the trademark name Friday more than seven years after he purchased the rights to it from the U.S. government. Gilman reached an agreement with government officials in 1999 to buy the Mustang Ranch's name, trademark and buildings for $145,000, but a nephew of the original owner had protested the use of the name. Rival brothel owner David Burgess, whose uncle Joe Conforte opened the Nevada brothel in 1971, began fighting the trademark case four years ago. After Friday's court ruling, Gilman told the Gazette-Journal he would implement the name change immediately. "We're putting up the Mustang Ranch signs right away and celebrating. This is a tremendous victory for us," he said. "Tell everybody the Mustang Ranch is alive and rides again." Advertisement Drug dealers offer cash to home growers LONDON, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- After a police crackdown in Britain, drug dealers reportedly are paying customers to grow marijuana in their homes. Britain's Sky News said Druglink, the magazine of the drug education charity DrugScope, reported drug dealers are offering cash to customers who are willing to grow cannabis in a spare room. The report comes after a massive police raid of hundreds of cannabis farms across England and Wales. The resulting shortage has led to a doubling of the street price of cannabis in some areas, Sky News reported. Cafe in Japan serves 'coffee stout' MITO, Japan, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- A cafe in Mito, Japan, is serving "Coffee Stout," a coffee-flavored beer, the Mainichi Daily News reported. The dark beer is made by mixing sweet wort -- a derivative of barley -- with coffee beans. Although it looks like a regular beer, a sip of it reportedly releases the flavor of coffee. Koji Kawasaki, the cafe owner, said he developed the drink because he wanted to make an alcoholic beverage using coffee beans.
