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Hot sauce leads to burglary suspect

MEMPHIS, April 19 (UPI) -- Police charged a Memphis man with aggravated burglary, linking him to the alleged crime by hot sauce stains on his clothes, court documents show.

A man returned to his home on James Road about 1 p.m. Saturday to find the door had been pried open and about $650 worth of belongings stolen, including sunglasses, cologne and a 5,500 watt generator, the Memphis Commercial Appeal reported.

Several bottles of hot sauce were broken against the wall, police reported.

The victim allegedly saw a man, later identified as William Horton, walk across his yard toward a gas station. The homeowner followed Horton and called police, an affidavit said. Horton was wearing clothes stained by hot sauce when police found him, the Appeal said.

When questioned by police, Horton, who has been arrested numerous times, allegedly said he broke into the victim's house looking for car parts.

Horton faces charges of theft of property between $500 and $1,000 and aggravated burglary.

Mensa members in serious game playing

SAN DIEGO, April 19 (UPI) -- Members of Mensa say they played 49 board games for 40 straight hours in San Diego to pick five new games to be given the Mensa Select Seal.

They gathered for the group's annual Mind Games event to learn, play and rate five winning new board games, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported.

Each of the 240 Mensa members from around the United States had to play at least 30 games and then submit a ballot of their favorites.

"This is going to sound pathetic, but this is the highlight of my year," said John Hornberger, 44, of Albany, N.Y.

Hornberger said he has been attending the event for about 10 years and is the proud owner of 1,028 games.

In the very competitive board game market, a Mensa Select Seal carries weight with game shops, hard-core gamers, and even moms -- a segment heavily courted by toy and game companies, the Union-Tribune said.

"For anyone who is into logic and strategy games, they want to see the Mensa award," said Monica Lucas of game publisher Mind Twister USA.

Display window becomes marriage proposal

NEW YORK, April 19 (UPI) -- A New York man says he used a jewelry store's display window to propose marriage to his girlfriend, who happily said yes.

Tom DeBourcy, 26, took Alex Routenberg, 26, on a stroll past Jeri Cohen Fine Jewelry in Manhattan's upper East Side where he had arranged for flowers and a "Will you marry me Alexandra?" sign to be displayed, The New York Daily News reported.

Tom DeBourcy slipped a 2-carat diamond ring onto his fiance's finger.

"Oh, my God, it is beautiful," Routenberg said.

They had gone to the same high school outside of Chicago, but lost touch until Tom used the alumni connection on Facebook to contact her, the Daily News said.

"I asked who the hell he was, and 2 1/2 years later ... ," she said.

Jeri Cohen Fine Jewelry is featured in the program "The Real Housewives of New York."

"I always walk by and say to my mom, 'This is the place where Jill Zarin goes!'" Routenberg said.

"This is the greatest idea you ever had!" she told her fiance. "Well, maybe (after) Facebooking me."

Police help freeway-crossing ducks

MILPITAS, Calif., April 19 (UPI) -- The California Highway Patrol says it came to the rescue of some wild ducks trying to cross a freeway near San Francisco.

The San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News said the ducks were headed southbound on the center divider of Interstate 880 near Milpitas Saturday when CHP Officer Ryan Nelson, a relative rookie, came on the scene in his patrol car.

Nine ducklings were with their mother. When veteran CHP Officer Lawrence Colon spied Nelson trying to herd the ducks between speeding cars, he brought traffic on one of the Bay Area's busiest freeways to a halt.

Drivers rolled their windows down and began to applaud, the newspaper said.

"Everyone loved it," Nelson told the newspaper. "All these hundreds of cars were stopped, and all these little chicks go walking by."

"I was like, man, they're going to get tired and not make it," Colon told the newspaper. "But they did."

The News said just an hour and a half later, Nelson was dispatched to state Highway 237, where a driver had stopped to help yet another line of ducklings.

"He was just standing by the ducks when I got there," Colon told the newspaper. "He didn't want them going on the roadway because he almost had a traffic collision there. So we did the same thing as before. He walked them along the shoulder, and that was it. It's pretty easy once you learn how to do it."