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Police: Man tried to take M&M statue

SHEBOYGAN, Wis., April 22 (UPI) -- Police in Sheboygan, Wis., said a Pick N' Save grocery store employee rescued a peanut M&M statue from a would-be thief.

Investigators said the employee spotted a man walking out of the store with the 3-foot-tall, yellow M&M statue and followed the would-be candy-napper to his car, the Sheboygan Press reported Monday.

The employee confronted the man, who offered to pay $5 for the item -- which is worth closer to $50 -- and the suspect drove away after the employee grabbed the statue from his car.

'Honest perv' busted in Internet sting

GREENSBURG, Pa., April 22 (UPI) -- Pennsylvania authorities said one of two men charged with soliciting sex with young girls online described himself as "an honest perv."

State Attorney General Tom Corbett said Scott Buckles, 37, was arrested Friday and charged with propositioning an undercover agent who was posing as a 14-year-old girl in an Internet chat room, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported.

Corbett said Buckles wrote in a message to the agent that other people in the chat room would "try and trick ya. I'm an honest perv -- I'm up front about it."

Buckles, who is also accused of asking a 13-year-old girl to send him sexually explicit videos of herself in August, was being held Monday in Westmoreland County Prison on $100,000 bail.

Corbett said a second man, Michael Krivokucha, 20, was arrested after allegedly chatting with an agent posing as a 13-year-old girl. He said the suspect was arrested Wednesday at a fast food restaurant that was intended as a meeting place for him and the fictional teenager. Krivokucha was being held on $50,000 bail in Westmoreland County Prison.

Man cites cop for parking

PORTLAND, Ore., April 22 (UPI) -- A Portland, Ore., man has issued a series of citizen-initiated parking charges against a police officer he claims illegally parked his patrol vehicle.

Eric Bryant, who recently passed the Oregon bar exam, said he confronted Officer Chad Stensgaard at a Chinese restaurant March 7 after he witnessed the officer parking next to a "No Parking" sign, the Portland Mercury reported.

Bryant claims Stensgaard admitted parking improperly, but asked, "If someone broke into your house, would you rather have the police be able to park in front of your house or have to park three blocks away and walk there?"

However, Bryant said the officer did nothing inside the restaurant other than apparently pick up some food he ordered.

"If he had acknowledged and corrected his error, we could have avoided his whole thing," said Bryant. "But instead, he kept watching basketball and told me he wasn't doing anything wrong."

Bryant initiated violation proceedings as a citizen against Stensgaard -- alleging illegal parking, illegal stopping, not obeying parking restrictions on state highways, and illegal operation of an emergency vehicle or ambulance. If the judge agrees with Bryant in court May 23, Stensgaard could face $540 in fines.

Man spends 41 hours stuck in elevator

NEW YORK, April 22 (UPI) -- A New York man who spent 41 hours trapped in an elevator with no food or water last fall got a moment in the sun Monday, appearing on national television.

Nicholas White, 34, said he was on his way back to his office on the 39th floor of his building after a late-night cigarette break one Friday last October when the elevator stopped between floors and refused to budge, ABC's "Good Morning America" reported exclusively.

White said he screamed and rang the emergency bell, but no one heard him.

"After a certain amount of time I knew I was in big trouble," said White, who said he lost track of time without his cell phone.

"I had no idea if it was day or night," he said.

White said he urinated by prying the doors open and relieving himself down the elevator shaft.

It wasn't until 4 p.m. Sunday that a voice came over the intercom and asked if anyone was inside the elevator.

White, who received a settlement from the building, said that despite his ordeal, which was recorded by a surveillance video camera, he has not given up elevators.

"Living in Manhattan, I'd be seriously limiting my life if I didn't take elevators," he said.