Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe Near-naked flee swingers' club fire MONTREAL, June 19 (UPI) -- The cause of a Montreal fire at a swingers' club that had patrons fleeing nearly naked early Friday was under investigation, firefighters said. Advertisement Fire alarms began sounding around 6:30 a.m. at the Auberge 1082 club with three employees and seven customers inside, fire spokesman Gilles Ducharme told the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. Six people suffered smoke inhalation and required ladder rescue, the report said. A resident of a nearby apartment building who asked not to be identified told the CBC it was "a sight to behold" as near-naked people descended the ladders. The club operates a sauna in the basement and rooms on the second floor, while the ground floor is an extermination business, the report said. Ducharme said a final determination of the cause hadn't been ascertained, although early indications pointed to the electrical system of the sauna, the CBC said. Advertisement Police: Man threatened, clucked at kids KINGSTON, Pa., June 19 (UPI) -- Police in Pennsylvania said they arrested a man who allegedly used a gun to threaten a group of children while clucking like a chicken. Investigators said Gerald Wiernusz, 41, of Kingston, was apparently drunk when he confronted a group of kids playing basketball and threatened to shoot them if they came onto his property, WNEP-TV, Moosic, Pa., reported Friday. The suspect then clucked like a chicken at the children, police said. Wiernusz was arrested and charged with assault and making terroristic threats. He was taken to the Luzerne County Jail. Police: Man waved chainsaw at neighbors PEABODY, Mass., June 19 (UPI) -- Police said a Massachusetts firefighter arrested for harassing neighbors was caught on video threatening one of his alleged victims with a chain saw. Ernest Perrone, 60, a Peabody firefighter, allegedly took pictures of neighborhood children without permission, made insulting comments and gestures toward a local gay couple and regularly threatened those living around him with violence, The Salem (Mass.) News reported Friday. A police report said some neighborhood kids once splashed Perrone's truck with water while playing with a sprinkler and he threatened to "blow their ... heads off" if they did not dry the vehicle. Advertisement Police said that on another occasion a mother demanded Perrone return pictures he took of neighborhood children and he allegedly told her they could be found on child pornography Web sites. Perrone was also videotaped in April by a neighbor while the firefighter was holding a chain saw over his head and mouthing the words, "I'll cut you both," the police report said. Perrone was arrested on assault and harassment charges. He was released on $2,500 bail and is due back in court July 31. Bar: Free drinks for hilarious insults CULLERA, Spain, June 19 (UPI) -- Patrons of a Spanish bar are praising a promotion that offers free drinks to customers who verbally abuse employees in funny or original ways. The Casa Pocho bar, located in the southern town of Cullera, lets customers vent their frustrations in the process of trying to earn a free drink, Metro.co.uk reported Friday. "When you come in after work, you can say swear at them and call them bastard or imbecile," enthusiastic patron Antonio Ossa said of the bar workers.
