Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe Police: Woman rode drunk on stolen horse SIX MILE, S.C., July 29 (UPI) -- Authorities in South Carolina said a woman was ticketed for disorderly conduct for allegedly riding drunk down the middle of a town on a stolen horse. Advertisement The Pickens County Sheriff's Office said a pedestrian flagged down an officer Saturday to report a woman riding a horse down Main Street in Six Mile and the woman "was barely able to stay on," the Greenville (S.C.) News reported Wednesday. The officer found the horse tied to a park bench at a gas station and discovered the woman inside the store using a phone. The criminal report filed in the incident said the woman spoke with slurred speech and smelled of alcohol when she told the officer she had been riding the animal to her boyfriend's house. The woman initially told the officer "she wasn't drunk, the horse was," the report said, but eventually confessed she had consumed a six-pack of beer before mounting the horse. Advertisement The owner of the horse, who said the animal was taken without consent, declined to press charges once the horse was returned. Elderly men pose for nude calendar NORFOLK, Va., July 29 (UPI) -- Nine elderly men from a Virginia retirement community will appear naked on a calendar to raise money for a local volunteer rescue squad, officials say. The men, ages 69 to 90, spent three days simulating nudity with strategically placed props at a photo shoot in Virginia Beach, The (Norfolk) Virginian-Pilot reports. The newspaper says the 2010 calendar, dubbed the "Pin-Up Boys of Atlantic Shores," was the idea of a resident of the Atlantic Shores Retirement Community who died of cancer in June. "I thought the idea was brilliant," says Eden Jones, general manager of the retirement community. "We were worried we weren't going to have people model, but our residents were lining up to do it." Money from selling the calendar will go to the Princess Anne Courthouse Volunteer Rescue Squad, which responds to emergency calls at the retirement community. Stolen car, car salesman found together WAUWAUTOSA, Wis., July 29 (UPI) -- A brand new Chevrolet Malibu stolen from a Wisconsin dealership was found in Pennsylvania -- along with the salesman who allegedly took it, police say. Advertisement Pennsylvania State Trooper Chad Rarig said he was alerted by agents from the OnStar satellite system that a car stolen from Hall Chevrolet in Wauwatosa, Wis., was approaching along Interstate 80, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported. He told the newspaper John Sergeant Jr., 35, of Milwaukee was shocked when Rarig arrested him and booked him on charges of receiving stolen property. "He was pretty surprised to see us, obviously," Rarig said. A Wauwautosa police report indicated dealership officials discovered the car was missing when another salesman who had sold it couldn't find it on the lot, and also noticed Sergeant hadn't reported to work since the car's disappearance, the Journal Sentinel said. Local police called to have the car's OnStar system activated, which they reportedly used to track the vehicle to Pennsylvania. "(Sergeant) told me he had been to New York City to visit his sister who was in the hospital," Rarig told the newspaper. TSA seizes Disney World toys NORTH MIAMI, Fla., July 29 (UPI) -- Florida's Disney World has agreed to replace a toy sword and a toy gun confiscated from two young boys at a Fort Lauderdale airport. Michelle Chao of North Miami, Fla., said Transportation Security Administration officers confiscated the $6 toy sword and the bright red wooden gun from her 4-year-old son, Julien, and his cousin, Gerry Edge, who was visiting from North Carolina, WPLG-TV, Miami, reported Wednesday. Advertisement Chao said TSA officers told her realistic toy weapons are banned on planes. "They're plastic. One has the words 'Jack Sparrow' written on the blade," she said. She said TSA officers did not give her the option of moving the items to checked baggage. "They just took them. They're just toys," she said. Disney World has agreed to replace the toys for no cost, Chao said.
