Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe Sausage causes alarm at Stockholm airport STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Sept. 23 (UPI) -- Firefighters say a worker roasting a particularly fatty hunk of sausage triggered a fire alarm that nearly caused the shutdown of the Stockholm airport. Advertisement Thomas Soderman and his colleagues in the control tower at Stockholm-Arlanda Airport managed to shut off a smoke detector Sunday without halting flight operations, as would normally be the procedure in the event of a fire. Soderman set the alarm off when he tried to make himself lunch, the Swedish news agency TT said Tuesday. "I put a nice, fatty sausage from Tuscany in the oven in the afternoon," Soderman explained. "There was so much smoke that it set off the fire alarm." Soderman salvaged enough of the lunch to offer the fire chief a sample, but he insisted he wouldn't be doing any more cooking on the job until the fire sensor was taken down. Advertisement Boy's note in bottle washes up in France ORLANDO, Fla., Sept. 23 (UPI) -- A Florida woman says she never expected her 10-year-old son's message in a bottle to cross the Atlantic and wash up on a beach in France. "We thought it would maybe (float) to Melbourne Beach or Vero Beach," in Florida, said Jenny Moody, mother of Alex Moody, WKMG-TV, Orlando, reported Tuesday. Alex dropped his message in a bottle from a boat off Cocoa Beach, Fla., last year. He recently got a letter from the Nefarre family, of Cape Ferret, France, who found the bottle on a nearby beach and sent him a map of where they are located. Alex, who has written to the Nefarres, told WKMG he's planning to launch more bottles with messages now that his first has met with such success. Court: Boy can be named November VASTERBOTTEN, Sweden, Sept. 23 (UPI) -- Parents of a baby boy in northern Sweden say they are rejoicing that a court will let them name their son November. "We feel good now," said Janna-Li Lanke of Vasterbotten, mother of the 10-month-old boy. An administrative court overturned a ruling by the Swedish tax agency Skatteverket that the boy should not be named Kaj Taran November, the Swedish new agency TT reported Tuesday. Advertisement As of now, January is the only month not currently being used for someone's name, TT reported. Canadians not shy about 'curb-mining' TORONTO, Sept. 23 (UPI) -- At least 44 percent of Canadians admitted in a poll they look for neighbors' scraps left by the street in what one Internet firm calls "curb-mining." An online survey of 1,511 people last month showed 44 percent said they had no problem scouring what their neighbors had left on the curb for trash pickup, and 45 percent said they knew someone who engaged in "trash-picking." The survey found 52 percent of the curb-miners reported finding furniture, followed by 22 percent who found art and antiques, a release by the Kijiji online classified Web site said. Toys accounted for 20 percent of the miners' finds, followed by 16 percent who said electronics were their best finds. On the flip side of accumulators, the survey said 53 percent of Canadian households with children 12 and younger are "looking to get rid of household items like old furniture, books, and children's toys and clothes." "Canadians between the ages of 25 and 44 are more likely than those aged 55 and older to curb-mine because the item is free," the release said. Advertisement
