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Man arrested with seafood in his pants

YORK, Pa., March 29 (UPI) -- A Pennsylvania man allegedly trying to steal a bag of shrimp from a supermarket was arrested with the frozen bag of seafood stuffed in his pants, police said.

A store security officer and a customer at the Weis Market in Dover Township detained Brian Troy McDaniel, 37, the (York, Pa.) Daily Record/Sunday News reported last week.

The store officer told police he saw the suspect enter the frozen foods section of the store and take two packages of shrimp from the freezer.

McDaniel then allegedly "proceeded to pull the front of his jeans away from his body and deposit one of the bags of shrimp into his crotch area," police said.

York police did not say what McDaniel did with the other bag of shrimp.

The store officer tried to stop McDaniel as he was leaving the store, but McDaniel refused to stop and attacked the officer, then broke free and ran across the parking lot where the security officer and a store customer caught him and detained him until police arrived, authorities said.

McDaniel was charged with robbery, retail theft and simple assault then freed on $10,000 bail.

Faithful Cutlass keeps rolling at 300,000

LIBERTYVILLE, Ill., March 29 (UPI) -- An old Oldsmobile station wagon has been very good to its Illinois owner, just passing the 300,000-mile mark.

Phil Brown of Libertyville credits regular oil changes and maintenance for keeping his beloved "Medwell Brown," a 1990 Cutlass Cruiser XL station wagon, going.

"It really is a good car," he told the Arlington Heights Daily Herald. "My mechanic and I think we can get another 100,000 miles out of her."

Consumer Reports says the average life expectancy of a modern vehicle is about eight years and 150,000 miles.

Brown said he bought the station wagon for his wife for errands and "driving the kids around" and she passed it on to him when she got a new car.

Brown said he has had the oil changed about 100 times over 21 years.

"I get a new paint job for it every three years," he said. "And, I've had to purchase three batteries, four new sets of tires and a couple or three alternators."

He admitted to also having the transmission redone but attributes that to "bad advice."

"But ... I'm still on the vehicle's original engine," he said. "And it still runs perfectly. To me, the car is special."

Microchip tracks cat missing 15 months

BRADENTON, Fla., March 29 (UPI) -- A cat missing for more than a year was reunited with its owner after somehow traveling hundreds of miles in Florida.

The 5-year-old cat, named Kingston, disappeared in Key West Dec. 7, 2009, and was found in Bradenton, Bay News 9 in St. Petersburg reported.

Kingston's owner, Sharla Sharkey picked him up Saturday.

"It's amazing that I got to see him again," she said. "I'm not sure how he got here. Somebody might have taken him in and then he got out or something, I don't know."

Sharkey credits a microchip implanted in her pet.

"The microchip's important because if they get that collar loose or that tag falls off, the microchip is implanted just beneath the surface of the skin," said Denise Deisler of the Manatee County Humane Society in Bradenton, which found the cat.

"They said they had my cat and I just started bawling my eyes out, thinking it was some kind of joke," Sharkey said.

She got Kingston at 8 weeks old while she was planning a trip to Jamaica and named him after the city there.

Forgotten card trips up alleged shoplifter

UPPSALA, Sweden, March 29 (UPI) -- An alleged Swedish shoplifter was caught when he returned to the scene of the crime to retrieve his credit card, police said.

The unnamed man is accused of stealing a range of electronic goods from a Netonnet store in Uppsala Saturday while his application for a refund was being processed, authorities told the Uppsala Nya Tidning newspaper.

Staff discovered the theft, and surveillance film showed the thief emptying boxes.

When he brought his loot home, he discovered he had forgotten his credit card at the returns desk and Sunday went back to the store, where staff called the police and had him arrested.

A search of the man's apartment and car had not turned up the stolen goods, the news agency The Local reported.