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Police seek 62 mph skateboarder

ULM , Germany, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- Police in Germany say they are on the lookout for a skateboarder who used a boost from a motorcycle to travel 62 mph down the Ulm-Stuttgart motorway.

Authorities said the skateboarder, whose feat was captured on video and broadcast on German TV, traveled for two miles down the steep stretch of highway at excessive speeds, Sky News reported Wednesday.

The man, who police said they believe to be a professional stuntman, wore a helmet and a red and white protective suit while speeding down the road. Investigators said he held onto the back of a motorcycle for some time to help him pick up speed.

Emu blocks traffic for two hours

NEW STANTON, Pa., Sept. 3 (UPI) -- Pennsylvania State Police say they used a stun gun to subdue an emu that blocked traffic for about two hours near the Pennsylvania Turnpike's New Stanton exit.

State troopers said the emu, an Australian cousin to the ostrich, had become trapped Monday between 5-foot-high traffic barriers and resisted all previous attempts to catch it -- including a an attempted cowboy-style lassoing, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported

"It created a backlog of traffic," said state police Sgt. Anthony DeLuca. "Vehicles almost wrecked into each other, into the bird. We tried to chase it down and tried to catch it.

"Once it got in there it got stuck, and it didn't know what to do."

He said troopers eventually used a stun gun on the 4-foot-tall bird and moved it to the side of the roadway but it died shortly after.

"I think what happened is after about two hours of running on the roadway, it probably had a heart attack," he said.

He said authorities are still unsure of the bird's origin.

"It doesn't belong to any local farmers," DeLuca said. "We believe it might just have escaped from a truck that might have been hauling emus."

Pet's ID chip helps cops take toddler home

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla., Sept. 3 (UPI) -- Police in Port St. Lucie, Fla., say a pet chip implanted in a dog accompanying a 2-year-old girl who had wandered off helped them find the toddler's home.

Officers said they received reports of the child, identified as Annabelle Fabrizio, chasing the dog into traffic at about 7:45 a.m. Sunday, The Palm Beach Post reported Wednesday.

The police report of the incident said officers contacted an animal control officer who traced the pet back to registered owner Barbie Molina. The woman told police she had given the pooch to the young girl's mother, Melissa Fabrizio.

Police said they took the toddler, who was clad only in a diaper, to her home, where babysitter Nick Westmoreland, 16, told officers he had thought the young girl was asleep in her room. Officers said the house's sliding door had been left open.

Woman: Police targeting her car

CINCINNATI, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- A Cincinnati woman says she has been pulled over repeatedly because police believe her car is connected to a wanted criminal.

Rashawn Edwards said she has been pulled over six times since June -- despite not breaking any traffic laws -- because new license plate recognition cameras used by Cincinnati police run her vehicle registration or identification number and tell cops the car is tied to a wanted Cleveland criminal Edwards says she doesn't know, WLWT-TV in Cincinnati reported Wednesday.

"I've been pulled over by just about every police district there is in Cincinnati," she said.

Edwards said each time she is pulled over, police approach the car cautiously.

"It's not guns drawn, but they are kind of intimidated, so they tell us, 'Don't move, stay in the car,'" she said.

She said her complaints to the police department and Alfred Motors, which is leasing her car, have failed to yield any results.

"I would like to keep the car, but at the same time I would like something to be done about it," she said. "I'm tired of being pulled over every time I drive my car."