Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe Emu wanders onto golf course YSTRAD MYNACH, Wales, May 22 (UPI) -- Animal authorities in Wales said a 6-foot-tall emu that wandered onto a golf course evaded capture for most of a day. Advertisement Sophie Daniels, an officer with the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, said the bird was spotted wandering Sunday around the Bryn Meadows Golf Club in Ystrad Mynach and resisted attempts at capture, The Sun reported Tuesday. "I was taken out in a golf buggy and I could hardly believe my eyes when I saw the emu," Daniels said. "The bird came over to feed from me but as soon as I tried to capture her, she kicked so hard I had to let her go." Golfers said they were undeterred by the bird and fed it snacks to keep it from interfering with their games. Authorities said the emu's owner, who lives about two miles from the golf course, was eventually identified and was able to recapture the flightless bird and take it home. Advertisement Stolen concrete pig found abandoned CINCINNATI, May 22 (UPI) -- A life-sized concrete pig taken from a Cincinnati home was found abandoned and damaged in the grass behind a cluster of businesses. Maggie Gieseke, whose pig statue was taken Saturday from the front yard of her family's home, said someone who saw a story about the theft on Cincinnati.com came to her home Monday and said the pilfered porker had been spotted in the tall grass and poison ivy behind some businesses at Mount Lookout Square, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported Tuesday. She said the sculpture's one remaining ear had been broken and someone scratched the letters "NF" into the pig's body. "She looks a little rough," Gieseke said. "But she is home." Woman alleges firing for too much chest NEW YORK, May 22 (UPI) -- A New Jersey woman who says she was first ordered to wear a bathrobe at work and then fired for having an overly large bust has sued a New York lingerie firm. Lauren Odes and lawyer Gloria Allred displayed a photograph that showed her wearing the bathrobe at a news conference Monday, ABC News reported. Odes says the owners of Native Intimates, a wholesale lingerie company, engaged in sexual and religious discrimination. Advertisement Odes, who is Jewish, said her former employers are Orthodox Jews who were trying to impose their view of proper women's attire on their employees. "I do not feel an employer has the right to impose their religious beliefs on me when I'm working in a business that's not a synagogue, but sells things with hearts on the female genitals and boy shorts for women that say hot in the buttocks area," she said. Allred said Odes was "humiliated" by being forced to wear the bathrobe. Odes said she was fired by telephone while she was out shopping for a long baggy sweater. Prison for man who impersonated dead mom NEW YORK, May 22 (UPI) -- A New York man was sentenced to 13 2/3 to 41 years in prison for dressing up as his dead mother as part of a scam to collect her Social Security benefits. Thomas Prusik-Parkin, 52, who was convicted earlier this month of grand larceny and mortgage fraud, was sentenced Monday in Justice Vincent Del Giudice's courtroom, the New York Post reported Tuesday. The court heard Prusik-Parkin doctored documents related to his mother, Irene Prusik, only days after her death at the age of 73 in 2003. The scheme fell apart in 2009 when he donned his mother's clothing to tell an investigator from the Brooklyn District Attorney's office he was being scammed by a man who bought a $2.2 million Park Slope building deeded to him by his mother out of foreclosure. Advertisement The jury was shown a video of Prusik-Parkin visiting the Department of Motor Vehicles in his mother's clothing. "It just boggles the mind that you continued this plan of deceit by impersonating her and committing a fraud at the DMV," Del Giudice said.
