ANDALUSIA, Ala., May 18 (UPI) -- An Alabama mother says she was offered the wrong kind of assistance when she called a poison control center and instead reached a phone sex line.

The unnamed Covington County mom said she was trying to get in touch with the local poison control center after she saw her 2-year-old daughter holding a carpenter crayon that contained lead, the Andalusia (Ala.) Star-News reported Friday.

"I called the number and they asked me if I was horny. I got another phone book and redialed the number, but I got the same message," the mother said.

It is reported the 2008-2009 Pioneer Directories' Covington County phone book accidentally listed the number of an adult chat line in place of the number for the poison control center.

The mom said she got assistance after calling the Children's Hospital and she let Pioneer know about the number mix-up.

A Pioneer spokesperson said the company was working to find a solution for the typo.

Hundreds of pizzas lined up for charity

FORT PIERCE, Fla., May 18 (UPI) -- A total of 722 pizzas were lined up longer than two football fields in Fort Pierce, Fla., to raise money for charity, the event's organizer says.

Organizer Scott Van Duzer said while he was thrilled to learn the pizzas had reached a world record length of 722 feet, 1 inch, the real winner was a St. Lucie County firefighter who lost his home to a recent wildfire, The Palm Beach (Fla.) Post reported Sunday.

"People need money when a crisis happens," Van Duzer said, "not weeks or months later."

Van Duzer said the pizza line easily surpassed the current Guinness world record of 611 feet, 2 inches, but had yet to be authenticated.

Allen Civita, the firefighter who benefited from Saturday's event, was thankful for the unspecified amount of money donated by his fellow area residents.

"I was just so overwhelmed," Civita told The Post. "All these years the community has helped Scott, and now he's giving back."

Meanwhile, Van Duzer told the newspaper the grand total of ingredients for the pizza line-up included 500 pounds of flour, 30 gallons of pizza sauce and 250 pounds of mozzarella cheese.

Mother, daughter earn master's degrees

CINCINNATI, May 18 (UPI) -- An Ohio woman who received a master's degree from Cincinnati's Xavier University along with her mother says the degrees were hard work but worth it.

Heather Swensgard, 30, of Batavia said she and her mother, Gayle Heintzelman, worked very hard to earn their graduate degrees in education -- so hard they didn't notice a pile of dirty laundry in the background of a video they recorded for the program, The Cincinnati Enquirer reported Sunday.

"It happened at about midnight, and it was one of those moments we just had to apologize for the laundry," the master's graduate said.

Swensgard said graduating Saturday alongside her 60-year-old mother was also the completion of another goal: graduating before her own children started school.

The Enquirer said Swensgard has two children, ages 3 and 5, but wanted to earn her master's to help in her job as a human resources worker.

Heintzelman, who also is a Batavia resident, told the newspaper her new degree will come in useful at Mercy Hospital Clermont, where she supervises nearly 650 workers.

NYU trash becomes another's treasure

NEW YORK, May 18 (UPI) -- Items collected for discard at the end of the semester at New York University have been donated to the homeless, participants in the cleanup said.

Green Apple Move Out coordinator Jennie Tichenor said items found in dorm rooms ranged from food to a box labeled "1,000 Sex Games," The New York Times said Sunday.

"Kind of from the sublime to the ridiculous," Tichenor said. "Forks and knives. A feather boa. You know, it's New York."

The project was initiated last May. Organizers say this year's event, which was funded by alumni and the school's Sustainability Task Force, is expected to gather at least 25,000 pounds of goods.

Project organizers say the recycling not only helps the homeless but also helps the environment by eliminating thousands of pounds of campus trash.