Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe Snakes caught on consecutive Sundays BALZANO, Italy, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- Animal authorities in Italy said they captured two boa constrictors a week apart on the same stretch of highway. Advertisement Authorities said a snake, which was reported to be more than 6 feet long, was picked up Sunday from a stretch of highway in Val d'Ega Trentino valley in the Alto Adige region, exactly one week after a similar animal was captured along the same stretch of road, ANSA reported Tuesday. Investigators said they believe the snakes, which are being housed at a local animal shelter, may have escaped from the same owner. Professor gets naked in front of class LANSING, Mich., Oct. 2 (UPI) -- A Michigan State University professor who stripped off his clothes in class was taken to a hospital and is not being charged with a crime, the school said. Advertisement The university said police received a call just after 1 p.m. Monday about a man shouting in the hallway of the school's engineering building and they soon discovered the man, a professor, had stripped all of his clothes off in front of his calculus class, ABC News reported Tuesday. "MSU police responded and took the man, a university professor, into protective custody and transported him to a local hospital," the school said. "No one was injured and the professor is not being charged with a crime." Students described the professor, whose name was not released, as "eccentric." Gas $1.84! -- but only for 150 customers MOUNT MORRIS, Mich., Oct. 2 (UPI) -- A Michigan gas station sold $1.84-per-gallon fuel to 150 motorists to promote the message of a group opposing President Barack Obama's re-election. The Mount Morris Township Beacon & Bridge gas station held the event Monday as part of the Americans for Prosperity-Michigan "Obama's Failing Agenda" bus tour, Mlive.com reported Tuesday. The group said the $1.84 gas price was meant to evoke the cost of gas in 2008, before Obama took office. "We really need to remind people about where we were just a few short years ago," said Scott Hagerstrom, state director of Americans for Prosperity-Michigan. "We're really about limited government and economic liberty. We have the resources in this country to be energy independent and if we drill those resources it'll mean great paying jobs for Americans and it will also increase the supply (of oil) and lower the price." Advertisement Halloween costume prompts bomb squad probe SAN MATEO, Calif., Oct. 2 (UPI) -- Authorities in California said a man reported to be wearing a gas mask and carrying grenades turned out to be a costume shop worker practicing for Halloween. The San Mateo County Sheriff's Office said police received several calls Monday about a man in a car wearing a full gas mask with grenades hanging from his neck in downtown San Mateo, KCBS-TV, San Francisco, reported Tuesday. The sheriff's bomb squad responded to the scene and evacuated about a half-block area around 9:30 a.m. The man was detained and the bomb squad discovered an "inert grenade" in his car. The man, identified as Gilberto Masias, turned out to be a costume shop worker wearing an "early Halloween costume," the San Mateo Police Department said on its Twitter account. Masias was cited for possession of an inactive grenade and released.
