Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe Blagojevich items may be sold CHICAGO, July 26 (UPI) -- Items belonging to former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich will be sold at auction if he fails to pay delinquent storage fees. Advertisement The embattled former governor is more than a year behind in rent to an Arlington Heights storage company, the Chicago Tribune reported Monday. Among the items: a life-size statue of Elvis Presley. The ex-governor has stored items at Boyer-Rosene Moving and Storage since 2002, company Chief Executive officer Paul Lombardo said. Blagojevich's possessions are stored in seven wooden containers and Lombardo said they would be sold at public auction on Aug. 14 unless Blagojevich pays up. Blagojevich's attorneys have been notified of the pending sale but have not responded, the paper reported. Blagojevich is on trial for corruption charges. Lombardo declined to say how just how much the company is owed, but said it was "in the thousands." Lombardo said proceeds of the sale will go to Children's Memorial Hospital, one of the entities Blagojevich is alleged to have tried to shake down for campaign contributions. Advertisement Suspect wore fake breasts, clown pants SWISSVALE, Pa., July 26 (UPI) -- Police in Pennsylvania said a man arrested on a bank robbery charge was wearing a woman's blond wig, a sweater with fake breasts and clown pants. Swissvale Police Chief Greg Geppert said Dennis Hawkins, 48, was dressed in the unusual getup when he shoplifted a BB gun from a Kmart store Saturday morning and took it to a Citizens Bank branch, where he used the pilfered weapon to rob a teller, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported Monday. Hawkins, described as a black man with facial hair, was recorded by bank security cameras looking into the envelope of stolen money outside of the facility and dropping it when a dye pack exploded. Police said Hawkins ran to a nearby service station where he tried unsuccessfully to secure a ride. Investigators said he climbed inside a car belonging to a woman who took her keys with her inside the station to call police. Hawkins was still dressed in his disguise and had dye on him when police arrived and arrested him, Geppert said. He was booked into the Allegheny County Jail on multiple charges including bank robbery. Professor's office coated in tinfoil Advertisement ST. PETER, Minn., July 26 (UPI) -- A Minnesota college professor said students pulling an annual prank while he was away on vacation made his office sparkle by coating everything in tinfoil. Scott Bur, a science professor at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, said he returned from his weeklong vacation to find his research group had covered everything in his office, from the walls to books, pens, chairs, his coffee pot and his computer screen, The (Mankato, Minn.) Free Press reported Monday. Items were individually wrapped. "It's sort of become a tradition in my research group," Bur said. "When I go on vacation and come back, I always find something." Students said they knew this year's prank had to be special, because they skipped last year. In the previous year, Bur's office was transformed into a princess-themed room, complete with pink drapes and bows "I have a sense of humor," he said. "It'll be a long time before everything's unwrapped, but it's a pretty good prank." The students said the feat required 10 full 200-foot rolls of tinfoil. Croc keeps returning to Florida yard ISLAMORADA, Fla., July 26 (UPI) -- Authorities in the Florida Keys said a young crocodile that twice returned after being removed from a residential yard may be bound for a captive facility. Advertisement Lindsey Hord, crocodile-response coordinator for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, said the 8-foot-long American croc, nicknamed Crocodolly, returned to the yard in the village of Islamorada on Plantation Key twice after being taken away by response teams, The Florida Keys Keynoter reported Monday. Hord said the female crocodile will likely be taken to a captive facility if she is caught a third time to prevent future visits to the neighborhood. "There's a whole long list of people who have applied to take her," Hord said. "We don't remove very many crocodiles from the wild. It's only happened two or three times before." The crocodile's powerful homing instinct enabled her to find her way back to the yard, Hord said. "We encourage people to learn to live with (crocodiles), tolerate them and accept their presence," Hord said. "But sometimes we do have difficult situations like this."
