Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe Police: Women tried to bring body on plane LIVERPOOL, England, April 6 (UPI) -- British police said two German women living in England were arrested after attempting to bring a corpse in a wheelchair onto a flight. Advertisement Authorities said the women, ages 41 and 66, put sunglasses on the body of a man, believed to be a deceased relative and tried to check him in for a Saturday flight to Berlin from Liverpool John Lennon Airport, the BBC reported Tuesday. The body was wearing sunglasses and the women were pushing him around in a wheelchair, police said. The man was believed to have died Friday. The women were arrested on suspicion of failing to give notification of a death and released on bail. They are due in court June 1. Man responds to fake sex ad at wrong house WEST HARTFORD, Conn., April 6 (UPI) -- Connecticut police said a man who responded to a fake online sex ad went to the wrong house and is now accused of crimes including burglary and sexual assault. Advertisement Police said Richard Zeh, 29, of Newington, Conn., was responding to a fake ad that purported to be from a married woman seeking group sex at her home but went to the wrong address Monday in West Hartford and let himself inside, The Hartford (Conn.) Courier reported Tuesday. Police Lt. Stephen Estes said Zeh was confronted by an 18-year-old woman who repeatedly told him he was at the wrong house and told him to leave. Estes said Zeh refused to leave, not believing the woman, until he showed her the Craigslist ad he was responding to and she pointed out his address error. Estes said Zeh then went to the house listed on the ad and was told by residents that the ad was a fake. He said the suspect tried to enter the back door of the home before returning to the 18-year-old's home. "I want to make this thing work," Estes quotes Zeh as saying to the 18-year-old. "Now she's really afraid," Estes said. "He's reaching out and grabbing her." He said Zeh fled after the woman pointed out that the men from the home in the ad were outside copying his license plate information. Zeh was arrested on charges including second-degree burglary, fourth-degree sexual assault, first-degree criminal trespass and disorderly conduct. He was being held in lieu of $250,000 bail. Advertisement Jail inmates pedal to power TV PHOENIX, April 6 (UPI) -- The sheriff of Arizona's Maricopa County said he has introduced a new fitness tool to jail inmates -- televisions that run on pedal power. Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who noticed many inmates at the Maricopa County Jail's Tent City extension were overweight during a recent visit, said the jail is now outfitted with stationary bicycles that generate electricity to power the facility's televisions, KNXV-TV, Phoenix, reported Tuesday. Arpaio said only inmates who pedal will be allowed to watch "Pedal Vision." "I started with the females because they seemed more receptive to the idea," Arpaio said. "The only exercise the females get right now is speed-walking around the tents yard and few are doing that. This gives them a reason to get moving and a way to burn up to 500 calories an hour. They won't be charged a monthly gym fee but they will have to sign a contract." Vultures picking rubber from cars MIAMI, April 6 (UPI) -- Officials and workers at Florida's Everglades National Park said vultures have been ripping rubber parts from vehicles parked in the area. Linda Hyde, who works at the Anhinga Trail gift shop in the park, said the vultures have been picking windshield wipers, door seals, sunroof seals and other parts made from rubber and vinyl from vehicles at the park, The Miami Herald reported Tuesday. Advertisement She said the park's attempts at keeping the vultures away from the cars, including effigies and hanging the carcasses of dead vultures, have not dissuaded the birds from pecking on cars. Dave Hallac, chief of biological resources for Everglades National Park, said officials are planning to bring in experts from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Wildlife Research Center in Gainesville, Fla. "This puts us in kind of a tough situation. These birds are native and they're protected," Hallac said. "We're looking for ways, without injuring the birds, because that's not what we do here, to keep them from damaging vehicles." Michael Avery, a USDA Wildlife Services biologist, said the vultures do not seem to be ingesting very much of the rubber. "It's like they are trying stuff," he said. "It may be more prevalent in younger birds as they are learning to grasp things."
