Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe Principal cited for school noise UNIVERSAL CITY, Texas, April 14 (UPI) -- A Texas school principal said she was issued a citation for a noise ordinance violation after a neighbor complained about noise at the school. Advertisement Principal Terri LeBleu of Olympia Elementary School in Universal City, Texas, said Butch Armstrong has continued to complain about noise at the school despite efforts made to appease him, the San Antonio Express-News reported Tuesday. "They've built a 7-foot fence at the back of the school," LeBleu said to the newspaper. "They've put special backing on the basketball hoops because he doesn't like hearing the basketball hit, and they've even taken out the loudspeakers that allowed me to make announcements to the kids who are outside, so now I'm not able not do that." Armstrong said he wants the school to change traffic patterns that result in long lines of cars waiting to pick up or drop off children. Advertisement "Each morning and afternoon there's somewhere in the neighborhood of 208 cars that pass our bed," Armstrong told the Express-News. Pig statue, sign lead to arrest WITNEY, England, April 14 (UPI) -- A British man who used to farm pigs said he was arrested and held for more than 6 hours in a row concerning a pig statue in his back garden. Robin Demczak, 57, of Witney, England, said he put the black and white porcelain swine in his back garden with the sign "no pigs" long before Police Constable John Ablett moved in next door, The Daily Telegraph reported Tuesday. Demczak said the "no pigs" sign was made in reference to the fact that the shed in his garden used to be a pig sty. "When I got rid of all the pigs, I painted a sign saying there weren't any left in there. That was in case someone was worried about them," he said. However, Demczak said he was arrested earlier this month and held for 6 1/2 hours after an 18 month dispute with Ablett. "PC Ablett had me arrested because he didn't like me keeping my 12-inch porcelain model pig in the back garden," he former farmer said. "He seems to think it is offensive to policemen." Advertisement Police confirmed Demczak's arrest. "He has been released without charge. But the investigation is still ongoing. There was an ornament in the garden and also some writing on a wall," a police spokesman said. Tiny Tim's dental mold sells for $1,500 METHUEN, Mass., April 14 (UPI) -- A Massachusetts man said he sold plaster impressions of the late musician Tiny Tim's teeth on eBay for $1,500. Brian Blouin, 32, of Methuen, Mass., said the dentist-made impressions were purchased after five days of auction by a man in Rockwall, Texas, The Eagle-Tribune newspaper in North Andover, Mass., reported Tuesday. "It's a unique item," Blouin said. "You usually don't see celebrity's dental impressions out on the market. Who knows? It might open up a trend." Blouin said he met the long-haired, falsetto-voiced ukulele player at an autograph signing when he was 16. He said the musician's wife gave him the dental impressions in 1997. "She was going to throw them out," Blouin told The Eagle-Tribune. "I just packed them in my bag and brought them back to Massachusetts." Tiny Tim, whose real name was Herbert Khaury, died in 1996 at age 64. Man hid finches in hair curlers NEW YORK, April 14 (UPI) -- A New York man pleaded guilty to trying to sneak 13 finches stuffed in hair curlers past security personnel at John F. Kennedy International Airport. Advertisement Terrence McLean, 36, admitted to lying on U.S. Customs paperwork by not disclosing that he had the illegal birds hidden in his carry-on suitcase during a flight from Guyana to New York in August 2006, the New York Post reported Tuesday. McLean was due back in court Tuesday to face a more serious charge of knowingly exporting protected wildlife from South America, a charge he denies. He could be fined $25,000 if convicted, the New York Daily News reported.
