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GPS unit leads car down stairs

TRIESTE, Italy, Dec. 3 (UPI) -- An Italian man said his car's satellite navigation system guided him to make a right turn that led his car to roll down two flights of stairs in Trieste.

The man told police he was headed for his 40-year high school reunion at a restaurant in the city and was following the directions of his satellite navigation system when he made the right turn onto the stairs, ANSA reported Tuesday.

The vehicle came to rest one flight of stairs from the end of the decline. He said police told him he could drive his car down the remaining stairs, but he chose instead to have his car brought back to the road by a special tow truck to avoid further damage to the vehicle.

The man said the situation took about 90 minutes to resolve and he was able to make it to his reunion party on time.

$900 parrot stolen from pet store

WAUKESHA, Wis., Dec. 3 (UPI) -- Police in Waukesha, Wis., say a $900 blue Quaker parrot was stolen from a locked cage at a local pet store.

Investigators said Pet World Warehouse Outlet employees noticed the bottom portion of the cage had been popped open and the young female bird was missing at about 4:30 p.m. Nov. 20, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Tuesday.

Amanda McFarlane, an assistant manager at the store, said the parrot arrived at the store Oct. 17, only a few months after it hatched. She said employees had not yet given the bird a name because they were waiting to see what her personality was like.

McFarlane said the theft was not caught by the store's security video because the parrot's cage was outside the view of the camera. She said the bird could not have flown off on her own but likely would not have objected to being handled by the thief.

"Someone could easily put it in their jacket and she would be quite content," McFarlane said.

Police: Man said crash was Jesus's will

SAN ANTONIO, Dec. 3 (UPI) -- Police in San Antonio said they arrested a man who claimed it was "Jesus's will" that he ram a woman's car because she was not "driving like a Christian."

The Bexar County Sheriff's Office said in a news release that Michael Schwab, 52, told investigators he crashed his pickup truck into a woman's car at about 7:25 a.m. Friday on southbound U.S. 281 because "the other vehicle was not driving like a Christian and it was Jesus' will for him to punish the car," the San Antonio Express-News reported.

"He just said God said she wasn't driving right, and she needed to be taken off the road," Sheriff's Lt. Kyle Coleman said.

Sheriff's officials said Schwab told responders he was traveling faster than 100 mph when he hit the woman's car. Both vehicles sustained heavy damage as a result of the crash, but both drivers had only minor injuries.

"God must have been with them, 'cause any other time, the severity of this crash, it would have been a fatal," Coleman said.

Schwab was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, motor vehicle. He was jailed in lieu of $50,000 bond.

Deer fights back against hunter

SEDALIA, Mo., Dec. 2 (UPI) -- A Missouri deer hunter said a vengeful buck got back on its feet after being shot and attacked him with its antlers.

Randy Goodman, 47, of Sedalia said he shot the buck once in its broadside and once in its neck before climbing down from his tree stand to inspect what he thought was a lifeless corpse, The Sedalia Democrat reported Tuesday.

Goodman said he grabbed one of the nine-point, 240-pound buck's antlers to inspect his kill and suddenly the large deer jumped back to its feet and started attacking him with its antlers.

"It was 15 seconds of hell," Goodman said of the attack.

He said the deer eventually fled and fell down again about 30 yards away. Goodman said he walked back to his tree stand, retrieved his gun and shot the buck twice more in the neck to ensure it wouldn't get up again.

Goodman said it wasn't until the deer was dead that he realized his head was bleeding. The hunter drove his car back toward the road and called his brother and his son, who was hunting nearby, for help.

He was taken to the emergency room, where he received seven staples in the left side of his scalp and doctors told him he had suffered a light concussion. He said there also was bruising on his right arm and chest as a result of the deer attack.