Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe Peacocks elude capture in Wash. SULTAN, Wash., Feb. 3 (UPI) -- Officials in a Washington state town said a wildlife specialist hired to trap a group of nine peacocks is having trouble catching up with two of them. Advertisement Sultan officials said they hired the specialist after residents complained about the peacocks and peahens roosting on porches, leaving their droppings on sidewalks and attempting to fight with reflective cars, The Seattle Times reported. "They're like deer," City Administrator Deborah Knight said of the final two elusive peafowl. "When you try to hunt them, you can't find them. When you're not hunting, you see them everywhere around." Local man Ed Boucher said the peafowl are believed to be descended from a mated pair he purchased 30 years ago. He said a wild dog broke the cage holding the ancestors of the birds five years ago and set several of them free. Advertisement Suspects called police for help with flat CONOVER, N.C., Feb. 3 (UPI) -- North Carolina authorities said two suspected robbers were arrested after they called police for help with a flat tire a few hours after their alleged crime. Catawba County police said Mark Franklin, 46, of Conover, and James Jennings, 31, of Claremont, allegedly entered a Cubbard Express store about 11 p.m. Sunday and demanded money from a cashier, The Charlotte (N.C.) Observer reported. Investigators said one of the men indicated he was armed, but no weapon was displayed during the robbery. The men fled in a four-door tan Chevrolet. Police said Franklin and Jennings called them from a Hardee's restaurant about 3 a.m. Monday and a responding officer recognized the men from security camera footage of the robbery and arrested them. The men were charged with robbery and taken to a Catawba County jail. Ski resort: Watch out for porcupine TELLURIDE, Colo., Feb. 3 (UPI) -- Workers at a Colorado ski resort said they put up a sign warning skiers to be on the lookout for a food-begging porcupine while descending the slopes. The Telluride Ski Resort ski patrol put up the sign, which reads "Caution: leaping attack porcupine," because Stickers the porcupine is nearsighted and sometimes has trouble telling fingers apart from the food offered to him by skiers, KMGH-TV, Denver, reported. Advertisement Stickers, who was first spotted hanging around the resort last season, has become the star of at least 16 YouTube videos taken by Telluride visitors. Snow footprints lead deputies to suspect SPARTANBURG, S.C., Feb. 3 (UPI) -- Authorities in South Carolina said a man who searched for money in 18 cars left footprints in the snow leading from the crimes to his home. Spartanburg County sheriff's deputies said a number of people reported their vehicles had been rummaged through or their locks tampered with Saturday evening in the area around Deer Chase Drive in the county, WYFF-TV, Greenville, S.C., reported. Deputies said they discovered distinct footprints in the snow near one of the vehicles and followed them for several blocks to the back door of a home. They said Garret Wayne Pierce, 21, answered the door and his shoes matched the prints found in the snow. Pierce admitted searching through several unlocked for money and attempting to enter several locked cars, without success, officials allege. Deputies said he showed them 18 cars he targeted. Pierce was taken to the Spartanburg County Detention Center in lieu of $45,000 bond.
