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Police: One-legged man hid cocaine in butt

JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Feb. 10 (UPI) -- Authorities in Florida said they found cocaine in the buttocks of a one-legged suspect seen hopping away from a car.

Jacksonville sheriff's deputies said they responded to a call about suspected drug activity inside a GMC sport-utility vehicle parked near an apartment in Jacksonville and a man missing his right leg started hopping away from the vehicle when deputies pulled up behind the SUV, the South Florida Sun Sentinel reported Friday.

Deputies ordered the man to come back and he hopped over to the deputies, who identified him as Ariosto Kuryakin Wyman. The deputies said they found marijuana in Wyman's cargo pocket and he told them he was not carrying any other drugs.

However, a corrections officer at the jail discovered a bag of cocaine stuffed between the cheeks of Wyman's buttocks.

Man sent pictures of stolen panties

BALTIMORE, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- Police in Baltimore said they arrested a man accused of breaking into a woman's home, stealing her panties and sending her cellphone pictures of the underwear.

The victim called police Feb. 2 and said she arrived home to find her back door had been pried open and a thief had taken cash, a gold necklace, a gold bracelet and a pair of red thong panties, The Baltimore Sun reported Friday.

She said she received a picture message on her phone after the burglary from the man who had given her the jewelry that had been taken. The pictures featured the victim's stolen panties.

The woman said she received multiple taunting texts from the man before arranging to meet with him to retrieve the panties.

Manuel Loja, who the victim described as a friend, was arrested when he showed up to meet the woman and was charged with two counts of burglary, theft and destruction of property.

Company tattoos hair onto bald men

BIRMINGHAM, England, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- A British company said it is opening salons across England dedicated to the tattooing the scalps of bald men to make it look like they have short hair.

Company HIS Hair, or Hair-Ink-Skin, based in Birmingham, said it is opening facilities across England to allow men who have lost their hair to give the appearance of hair growing back using a tattooing technique applying different shades of pigment to the scalp to emulate the look of a buzz cut, The Sun reported Friday.

Founder Ian Watson said he developed alopecia and lost all of his hair in his mid-20s. He said the idea for the procedure came to him when he had his sister-in-law, Ranbir Rai-Watson, use a fine pen to draw dots on his scalp.

Celebrity stylist Adee said he became one of the firm's first clients.

"I was 24 when I started losing my hair. I got behind this product because I know it looks good," he said. "Going bald didn't particularly bother me but there are guys out there who are literally suicidal about it."

Artist slims down Renaissance paintings

ROME, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- An Italian artist says she is using a computer program to take Renaissance paintings of women and slim them down to the modern perception of the feminine ideal.

Anna Utopia Giordano said she altered paintings including "Venus and Cupid" by Diego Velazquez, The Daily Telegraph reported Friday.

"Art is always in search of the perfect physical form -- it has evolved through history, from the classical proportions of ancient Greece, to the prosperous beauty of the Renaissance, to the spindly look of models like Twiggy and the athletic look of our own time," the artist said.

Giordano reduced the paintings to show how the fashion world can digitally manipulate the images of models and create a look that is virtually impossible for most women to attain, the Telegraph said.