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Police: Crowbar attack prompted by chicken

AKRON, Ohio, Dec. 16 (UPI) -- Police in Ohio say a man beat his brother with a crowbar during a dispute about a piece of fried chicken with a bite taken out of it.

The alleged victim, Thomas Morris, 41, of Akron told investigators the incident began Sunday afternoon when his 37-year-old brother Tony threw a piece of chicken at him at their mother's home while they were both visiting, the Akron Beacon Journal reported Wednesday.

Thomas Morris said his brother accused him of taking a bite out of the chicken piece and placing it back in the frying pan. He told investigators he suggested they take the dispute outside and his brother then attacked him with a crowbar, inflicting a 3-inch laceration on his forehead and other wounds.

The older brother, who was treated at a local hospital, said Tony Morris fled after he got away and retrieved a shovel from a neighbor's house.

Police said they were called to the home by the mother, who admitted chomping on the piece of chicken in question.

An arrest warrant was issued Sunday for Tony Morris on suspicion of felonious assault, domestic violence and menacing.

Skunk stinks up 800 Christmas presents

PURCELL, Okla., Dec. 16 (UPI) -- An Oklahoma volunteer group said a skunk got into its storage facility and sprayed nearly 800 presents collected for children in low-income families.

Peggy Christian with McClain County Operation Christmas said volunteers have been attempting to salvage as many of the smelly gifts as possible before the planned delivery run Friday, KOCO-TV, Oklahoma City, reported.

"The ones laying out, they have been sprayed with Febreeze many, many times," Christian said.

Christian said the volunteer group, which handed out 786 gifts in 2009, is accepting donations before 5 p.m. Thursday at the Purcell Multi-Purpose Center and after 5 p.m. at the Purcell Police Department.

Christian told KOTV, Tulsa, Okla., support has been pouring in from the community since the incident with the skunk.

"I've already had a lot of phone calls. People here locally that have called and said 'What can we do to help?'" she said.

Search on for world's worst travel

STEVENS POINT, Wis., Dec. 16 (UPI) -- A U.S. travel insurance company is set to end its search for the "World's Unluckiest Traveler," with a prize of a pricey vacation for having the worst travel story.

Travel Guard North America began the competition in January with monthly winners chosen from online submissions. Once the yearlong contest ends, the top winner will be compensated for previous bad luck with a $10,000 vacation.

The contenders from among more than 800 submissions include a doctor who shattered his leg in a cliff fall on the third day of a medical mission to Vietnam, spending most of the trip as a patient; a couple on a "floating university" that hit a sandbar entering Alexandria in 1963 and was close to sinking by the time it reached the dock; and the travelers who had to form a bucket brigade to save their camp from a forest fire in Bolivia. Others tell of animal encounters, like the woman whose purse was stolen by a baboon at Tree Tops resort in Kenya, its contents dumped around a watering hole; and a Canadian woman who discovered snakes in her Costa Rican pottery that went undetected through airport security.

Children can also be a hazard. One 4-year-old hid his miniature cars in his pockets after his mother packed them away and set off the metal detector at the airport before scattering the toys. He then courteously offered the security agent some peanuts from a can that turned out to contain a joke snake.

Hockey great Hull takes to the stage

CHICAGO, Dec. 16 (UPI) -- Hockey Hall of Famer Bobby Hull took to the stage at a Chicago theater's production of "A Christmas Carol" alongside an 11-year-old boy diagnosed with lymphoma.

Hull, 71, appeared in a one-night-only, walk-on role Tuesday at the Goodman Theatre as part of the performance organization's first partnership with the Chicago Blackhawks, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.

"Entertaining 22,000 people a night -- that's show business," Hull said. "We'll see how this works when I'm nearly 72 years old."

The hockey star's appearance in the show coincided with the stage debut of Charles Finch, 11, a lymphoma patient whose appearance in "A Christmas Carol" was arranged by the Make-A-Wish Foundation.