Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe Stinky feet student allowed back in class ROTTERDAM, Netherlands, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- A student who was banned from attending classes at a Netherlands university due to his foot odor has won the right to return after a decade-long legal fight. Advertisement A judge ruled to allow Teunis Tenbrook, who was banned from attending classes at Erasmus University in Rotterdam after administrators said his foot odor was distracting to professors and students, to resume his education at the school after a 10-year lapse, The Sun reported Tuesday. The judge said professors and students would "just have to hold their noses and bear it" if the smell of Tenbrook's feet bothers them in the future. The school said its new policy is to fine smelly students rather than ban them from classes. Ancient vase decorated lawn for 20 years DORCHESTER, England, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- A British homeowner said a terracotta vase that sat in an outside garden for 20 years was found to be a 3,000-year-old ancient Egyptian artifact. Advertisement The owner, who asked not to be named, said experts determined the 13-inch-tall vase was designed to hold a liver for use in the afterlife, with the face of Egyptian god Imseti adorning the lid to watch over the organ, The Daily Telegraph reported Tuesday. "It came from an uncle who was a bit of a collector and when he died about 20 years ago it came to us," the owner said to the newspaper. "We didn't know what it was and we have kept it on the patio and in the shed over the years. It was just used as a decorative piece, a lump of stone. Then I looked at it and saw it had a face and it looked a bit Egyptian so we took it in to be valued and was told it was from ancient Egypt." The vase, which experts said was from between 1550 and 1069 B.C., is to be sold Thursday at Duke's auction house in Dorchester, England. Lost man locked in bank for 3 days UDINE , Italy, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- Authorities in Italy said an elderly man was locked inside a bank basement for three days after he became lost in the building. Advertisement Paolo Lugo, 82, mistakenly walked down the wrong flight of stairs after cashing a check Friday, leading him to a portion of the Udine facility that was unfamiliar to him, ANSA reported Tuesday. Lugo was locked inside the bank when it closed for the weekend and eventually took a seat beside the basement boiler to await rescue. He was found Monday by a concerned relative and a bank clerk. The octogenarian was said by authorities to be "in fairly good shape" despite his three days without food or water. Obscenity charges dropped for public kiss NEW DELHI, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- A New Delhi high court judge has dismissed an obscenity charge against a married couple in India who kissed in public, observers say. Wondering how police could have brought charges against an "expression of love by a young married couple," Judge S. Muralidhar quashed the criminal proceedings against the 28-year-old man and his 23-year-old wife, the BBC reported Tuesday. New Delhi city officials had begun criminal proceedings against the couple for "sitting in an objectionable position near a metro (railway station) pillar and kissing, due to which passersby were feeling bad," the broadcaster said. Muralidhar, however, said that even if police reports were accurate "it is inconceivable how … an expression of love by a young married couple would attract an offense of obscenity and trigger the coercive process of law." Advertisement The couple's lawyer told a local newspaper that obscenity charges should only be applied when an act is so obscene that it encourages depravity or annoys the public, the BBC reported.
