Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe Man spends hours eating 20-pound burger PITTSBURGH, Oct. 17 (UPI) -- A 21-year-old Pennsylvania man says he spent nearly five hours eating a burger containing 15 pounds of beef and more than five pounds of toppings. Advertisement Uniontown resident Brad Sciullo said he actually "trained" in order to consume the $50 Beer Barrel Belly Buster in record time at Denny's Beer Barrel Pub in Clearfield, Pa., the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review said Friday. "I'm all trained up, I'm real hungry and I got to do something," the competitive eater said before Monday's over-sized meal. Sciullo said in order to set a record time for eating the mammoth meal, he had to not only down the base burger but also consume a cup each of ketchup, mayonnaise, mustard and relish. When the smoke cleared and the crumbs were wiped away, Sciullo beat the eatery's previous record time by 21 minutes with a final time of four hours and 39 minutes. Advertisement The Tribune-Review said Sciullo won $400, three T-shirts and a certificate. Man charged for catching, cooking squirrel LOWELL, Mass., Oct. 17 (UPI) -- A Massachusetts man has been charged with catching and killing a squirrel and then roasting it with a blowtorch in his backyard. Odum Chaloeurn's neighbors in Lowell reported him to the police, the Boston Herald said. He was charged with animal cruelty Wednesday. Chaloeurn reportedly argued to police that he was not cruel to the squirrel since it was dead before he began cooking it. He allegedly pursued the squirrel on foot, grabbed it by its tail and then knocked it against a tree to kill it. Squirrels are actually legal game in Massachusetts to licensed hunters. But Lowell is in a district where the squirrel season opens Saturday. There is no word yet on whether Chaloeurn faces a citation for violation of hunting regulations in addition to the cruelty charge. Police: Postman found wearing stolen thong EXETER, England, Oct. 17 (UPI) -- A 35-year-old postal worker in the British town of Weymouth was arrested allegedly wearing a woman's thong taken from a mail delivery, police allege. Police say they began tracking Matthew Furness after receiving complaints of missing packages while the postal worker was on duty, The Sun said Friday. Advertisement All of the missing packages contained female-oriented products and led police to place a package containing female underwear in his delivery van. Police allege the package disappeared within a matter of hours and Furness was questioned by investigators. The Sun said after the married postal worker denied the theft allegations, police conducted a strip search and allegedly found Furness wearing the missing red thong. Furness later pleaded guilty to two counts of theft and received a two-year conditional discharge and a fine, the newspaper said. Mass. woman taxed for another's land AGAWAM, Mass., Oct. 17 (UPI) -- An 88-year-old woman in Agawam, Mass., says she has been paying property taxes since 1970 on a portion of land she doesn't own. Agawam resident Valeria M. Novak said the taxation blunder was only uncovered after she visited the city assessor's office regarding an unspecified property question, The Republican newspaper in Springfield, Mass., said Friday. After viewing a city property map, Novak said she learned city records indicated she owned property she never purchased. Novak said unbeknown to her, she had been paying taxes on that property, nearly 8,000 square feet of land, for 38 years. The newspaper said the total amount overpaid was about $2,000. Advertisement State law forbids refunds in such taxation situations after a specified time frame and Novak is left wondering how best she could have spent the sudden windfall of tax funds. "I have seven grandchildren and a great-grandson. I would love to spend the money on them," she told The Republican.
