Odd News

NEW YORK, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- New York officials prepared for the annual New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square by testing confetti to ensure it falls "in the proper, happy way."

CHICAGO, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Chicago police say an eatery owner took out his frustration on unwanted cars in his parking lot by coating the vehicles with cooking grease.

NEW YORK, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- A top official with the New York Police Department has been told by his boss to remove all his animal hunting trophies from his office.

NEW YORK, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Authorities allege a 22-year-old man used his hollow legs to smuggle cocaine through New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport.

SYDNEY, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- A pair of newlyweds became unwilling street racers in Sydney this weekend thanks to a chauffeur with a very heavy foot, police have alleged.

LONDON, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- A recent survey by a British company determined nearly two-thirds of respondents kept the phone numbers of ex-partners "just in case."

NEW YORK, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Police in Amityville, N.Y., learned a man had allegedly stolen a global positioning device after they used the technology to track down its true owner.

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Police say harried parents packed for a trip mistakenly left their 6-month-old baby at a New Jersey train station, each thinking the other had infant.

HAGERSTOWN, Md., Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Three Maryland dogs have reason to wag after inheriting a house and nearly $400,000 from their owner's estate.

NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Dec. 30 (UPI) -- State health officials in Indiana have apologized to a Noblesville family swamped by callers seeking insurance help.

WELLINGTON, Fla., Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Twenty deputies, two canine units and a police helicopter were summoned to a mall in Florida to arrest a family in a case that began with baggy jeans.

NEW YORK, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- New York is considering a bedbug task force to deal with a massive infestation biting the city's rich and poor alike.

UPI Almanac for Sunday, Dec. 30, 2007.

YELLOWKNIFE, Northwest Territories, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Some residents of Yellowknife, in the Canadian Northwest Territories, are worried about the future of 20 shacks that once housed the town's pioneers.

SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been spotted carrying a new cell phone, apparently dedicated to calls from his new girlfriend.