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Loud carols result in police visit

LLANDUDNO, Wales, Nov. 28 (UPI) -- Complaints that school children were singing carols too loudly in a Welsh shopping center led to police showing up at the scene.

The 29 students, ages 6-11 from Ysgol San Sior primary school, were given permission to sing carols at the Victoria Center in Llandudno, Wales, to raise money for their school, the Daily Mail reported Wednesday.

However, some shopkeepers complained.

"After a bit, a security guard came over and said we had only meant to be singing for one hour, and could we please stop," said Ian Jones, headmaster of the school. "I just said no, because I knew we were allowed to sing between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m.

"He said he had complaints from tenants that we were too loud and asked us to stop ... In the end, he said we would have to stop or he would call the police."

A police officer arrived at the center and asked the group to turn down the volume of their background music and sing more quietly.

Center manager Sue Nash later admitted that involving security was "a mistake" and said the children will be allowed to return this weekend -- with no volume limits.

Book covered in human flesh to be sold

DONCASTER, England, Nov. 28 (UPI) -- A British auction house has agreed to put a 400-year-old book covered in a sheet of human skin on the block.

The book, "A True And Perfect Relation Of The Whole Proceedings Against The Late Most Barbarous Traitors, Garnet A Jesuit And His Confederates," details the trials and executions of Guy Fawkes and his co-conspirators in the 1605 plot to blow up the houses of Parliament, Sky News reported Wednesday.

The tome, which was published months after the event in 1606, is covered in a sheet of human skin that reportedly came from one of Fawkes' co-plotters.

The current owner of the book, who asked not to be identified, said he hopes it is purchased from Wilkinson's Auctioneers in Doncaster by a museum so it can be seen by the public. He said marks on the book and an inscription on the cover, "severe penitence punished the flesh," seem to indicate the skin's former owner was tortured before his death.

Drunk moose wanders Anchorage

ANCHORAGE , Alaska, Nov. 28 (UPI) -- Holiday shoppers in Anchorage, Alaska, were treated to an unusual spectacle -- a moose, apparently drunk on fermented crab apples, tangled in Christmas lights.

The moose, which has been nicknamed Buzzwinkle, earlier made the news for his exploits wandering the city's downtown, but gathered even more attention when he planted himself in the courtyard of Bernie's Bungalow Lounge and offered glassy-eyed and dizzy looks to passersby, the Anchorage Daily News reported Wednesday.

"He just has this goofy look on his face," said Rick Sinnott, a Fish and Game biologist who examined the moose. He said it probably had consumed too many crab apples from a tree on the property.

"He's either drunk or in gastric distress," he said.

The moose had decorated his antlers earlier during a visit to Town Square Park. LED lights from the park's trees became snagged on Buzzwinkle's antlers and he pulled them from the branches, trailing lights as he wandered around downtown.

Man survives high-speed boat fall

LAND O'LAKES, Fla., Nov. 28 (UPI) -- A Florida man escaped serious injury when he was thrown from a speedboat traveling in excess of 90 miles per hour.

James Helmintoller of Land O'Lakes was piloting the 353 Fastech speedboat down the Anclote River Channel when the craft hit a wake and the ensuing jolt ejected him into the channel, the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times reported Wednesday.

U.S. Coast Guard personnel rescued Helmintoller from the water and he later checked himself into Helen Ellis Hospital for treatment of injuries described by officials as non-life threatening.

Helmintoller's runaway boat continued to travel more than a mile until it hit the shore and ripped through 500 feet of beach before coming to a halt.