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Hospital staff bring prom to ailing teen

INDIANAPOLIS, May 11 (UPI) -- A teenage girl unable to attend her school's prom due to illness enjoyed a makeshift prom thanks to the staff of an Indianapolis hospital, an official said.

Community Health Network Foundation spokesman Ryan Chelli said his group and Community Hospital North staff members worked together to offer ailing prom queen Leah Westrick a taste of the Fishers High School prom, The Indianapolis Star reported.

Chelli said the Fishers senior, along with her boyfriend and several other friends, enjoyed a pre-prom dinner Saturday night at a hospital atrium transformed into a temporary restaurant.

Fishers Principal Jason Urban also attended the makeshift prom event to present Westrick and her boyfriend, senior Gabe Hulecki, with their honorary crowns as prom queen and king.

Chelli told the Star Westrick has been at the hospital since April 18 after contracting an E. coli infection during spring break a visit to Mexico. Her condition was not considered life-threatening and she should be discharged within two weeks, Chelli said.

Woman accused of naked cigarette request

CLEARWATER, Fla., May 11 (UPI) -- A 52-year-old woman in Clearwater, Fla., was naked when she knocked on the door of a house and asked a resident for a cigarette, police allege.

Pinellas County sheriff's deputies said when they arrested Monica L. Wood in a nearby mobile home park early Friday morning the woman was only wearing boxer shorts, the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times said.

The Clearwater resident faces misdemeanor charges of disorderly conduct, the Times said.

There was no word on whether she scored any smokes.

St. Andrews Road Hole to be less 'penal'

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland, May 11 (UPI) -- One of the most difficult holes at Scotland's most storied golf courses could be getting a makeover to render it less challenging, course officials said.

Many golfers are not happy about the plan for the Road Hole at the Old Course at St. Andrews, The Scotsman reports. The trust that manages the Old Course decided that the long grass makes the 17th hole "overly penal" and groundskeepers have been trimming away the rough.

"It is the hardest par four hole in the world for a reason," one golfer told the newspaper. "It is the one hole you think about the whole way round. Making it easier will spoil the experience for some, many of whom have traveled from a long way away to play it."

The fairway on the 455-yard hole is not visible from the tee. The long grass means that even a slightly off-course drive is likely to end up in the rough.

Management's goal is to get the hole spruced up in time for the Open in July.

It's not just the rough that has caused problems for golfers. In 1978, Tommy Nakajima needed five strokes to get out of a Road Hole bunker, which was then nicknamed The Sands of Nakajima.

Upside down pizza call a YouTube hit

MERTHYR TYDFIL, Wales, May 11 (UPI) -- A call by a Welsh man to a supermarket saying that pizza boxes need a label saying which side to open has received more than 20,000 hits on YouTube.

In the call from Merthyr Tydfil, the man tells an employee at a call center for the Asda chain that the store gave him a pizza base with no cheese or tomato by mistake, The Daily Telegraph reports. Then, he realizes that the pizza is upside down and says, "I look like a fool."

He then suggests that Asda put a "this way up" label on its boxes. By that time, 4 minutes into the call, the call-center worker has been reduced to laughter after minutes of remaining polite.

Nicky Labron says the call was a hoax, that he has posted similar pranks on YouTube.

Asda says it has no plans to add a new label to its pizza boxes.