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Texting woman falls into lake

ST. JOSEPH, Mich., March 21 (UPI) -- Authorities in Michigan said they pulled a 45-year-old woman out of Lake Michigan after she fell off a pier while text messaging.

St. Joseph police said Bonnie Miller of Benton Harbor was text messaging on her phone and was not carefully watching where she was walking when she fell Monday from the South Pier in St. Joseph, WOOD-TV, Grand Rapids, reported Tuesday.

Police arrived on the scene around 9:30 p.m. and saw Miller in the water with Rebecca Van Zant of Mishawaka, Ind., who had jumped into the lake to help Miller.

25,000 bees swarm car

BRIGHTON, Tenn., March 21 (UPI) -- A Tennessee couple said they left home for 4 hours and returned to find an estimated 25,000 bees swarming around their 2011 Chevrolet Traverse.

Tommy and Cristi Hill of Brighton said they left the Chevy at home while they went out to eat and shop Saturday and returned to find the bees swarming under the hood and over the windshield of the vehicle, The (Memphis) Commercial Appeal reported Tuesday.

The Hills said they do not want to kill the bees, so they tried strategies including driving the vehicle 60 to 65 mph down U.S. 51 and taking the Chevy through a car wash.

The couple said the bees returned each time.

Local beekeeper Bill Hughes said he tried to lure the bees into hives loaded in the back of his pickup truck, but "they've decided that car is their home."

Hughes estimated there are 25,000 bees swarming the car and a queen bee can lay up to 2,000 eggs per day.

The beekeeper told the couple to scare the bees off with a garden hose after dark and then park the car at least half a mile away.

"There's no telling what they'll do," Hughes said. He said the insects may just wait in a nearby tree for the Chevy to return.

Stolen bike left with note signed 'Drunk'

ASPEN, Colo., March 21 (UPI) -- A Colorado man said he has his stolen bicycle back after the thief left it at a courthouse with a note signed "Drunk."

Jay Maytin of Aspen said the bicycle he received as a gift in 1999 was missing for less than 24 hours when he saw a newspaper article describing a bike that had been left Friday at the Pitkin County Courthouse and turned over to Aspen Police, The Aspen Times reported Tuesday.

"Sorry. I stole this bike. I rode it home. Please give it back -- Drunk," the note accompanying the bike read.

"I knew a drunk took it because it doesn't have much of a re-sale value," Maytin said. However, he said, "to me it's worth $500. It's transportation."

Maytin said he would not have pressed charges against the thief.

"All I wanted was my bike back," he said.

Man apologizes for rude mug shot

AKRON, Ohio, March 21 (UPI) -- An Ohio 18-year-old has apologized for his mug shot, which features him displaying his middle finger and grabbing his crotch.

The mug shot taken of Mitchell Peterman after he was arrested Sunday on charges of underage drinking and obstruction went viral online after it was posted to Facebook by Bath Township police, the Akron Beacon Journal reported Tuesday.

Peterman, a student at the University of Akron, apologized for his rude photo Monday and police took the picture off Facebook later in the day.

"I haven't even seen them. I don't even want to look at them," Peterman said of the pictures. "It's something I wish I wouldn't have done, something I wish I could undo. So, I'm just going to try and distance myself from it, learn from it and leave it behind."