Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe Site uses Romneys to sell 'magical' undies SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- A San Francisco website is using images of Mitt and Ann Romney to sell "magical Mormon underwear." Advertisement MormonsSecret.com, run by an "ex-Mormon" using the alias Ann Jackson, said the "magical Mormon underwear" it sells for men and women are authentic "temple garments" made according to the specifications for the garments the Mormon religion requires most adults to wear, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday. The website uses pictures of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and his wife Ann, Photoshopped onto the bodies of models wearing the garments. Jackson said she is an "ex-Mormon" who formerly worked for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' "temple clothing division." Jackson said she does not see anything wrong with selling the garments as Halloween costumes or "fetish wear." "If I wanted to put on a kippah and go as a Jewish rabbi, no one would think twice about it, but magic Mormon underwear, it's like they take themselves so seriously and they can't see why it's really funny," Jackson said. "I kind of get something like people having collars or kippahs to signify something religious but that it's in your underwear? It seems so amusingly incongruent." Advertisement Octopus attacks aquabiking woman BEAULIEU-SUR-MER, France, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- A woman participating in an aquabike lesson in France said she was attacked by an octopus that immobilized her legs with its tentacles. The woman, whose name was not released, said she was aquabiking -- riding an exercise bike submerged in water -- in Beaulieu-sur-Mer when she felt something moving around her legs, The Local.fr reported Friday. The woman soon discovered an octopus had wrapped its tentacles around her legs, stopping her from pedaling. Experts said the octopus was likely attracted by the movement in the water. Swedish police car allegedly killed dog LUND, Sweden, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- Police in Sweden said they were investigating allegations an officer hit and killed a small dog with his police cruiser and did not stop. A Lund woman said she was out walking her Chihuahua without a leash Thursday when the dog was struck and killed by the cruiser, The Local.se reported Friday. A motorist who was traveling in the opposite direction witnessed the incident and attempted to turn around and inform the officer, but was unable to catch up to the cruiser. "This is being written up as a traffic accident that a dog has been run over. We're not entirely certain of the circumstances surrounding it, but what we can state is that there is a traffic accident report that a police car, according to the information, has run over a dog," Stephan Soderholm of the Lund police said. Advertisement Soderholm said the incident is being investigated internally. Schools ban Flamin' Hot Cheetos CHICAGO, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- Schools across the United States are banning Flamin' Hot Cheetos out of concern for the popular snack food's lack of nutrition. The Noble Street Charter School Network in Chicago and the Rockford, Ill., school district said they have banned the snacks -- which were created 20 years ago by the Frito-Lay company -- due to high content of salt, fats and artificial coloring with very little fiber or other nutritional benefits, the Chicago Tribune reported Friday. Renita Weiskircher, director of nutrition services for Rockford Public Schools, said the district used to sell about 150,000 bags of Flamin' Hot Cheetos each school year, but students "have learned to adjust" since the ban was imposed in 2010. Rita Exposito, principal of Jackson Elementary School in Pasadena, Calif., said faculty members at her school specifically target the snacks. "We don't allow candy, and we don't allow Hot Cheetos," she said. "We don't encourage other chips, but if we see Hot Cheetos, we confiscate them, sometimes after the child has already eaten most of them. It's mostly about the lack of nutrition."
