Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe Minnesota child survives long fall ST. PAUL, Minn., June 6 (UPI) -- A 2-year-old boy "bounced right up" after plummeting from a third-story apartment window in Minnesota while playing with his twin brother. Advertisement The boy apparently landed on a grassy area below the window Tuesday afternoon, St. Paul, Minn., police said. He was scared, crying and holding on to a fence but appeared to have only a minor head injury, the Star Tribune reported. "He bounced right up," police spokesman Tom Walsh told the Minneapolis newspaper. "He was walking around. Talking." The child was taken to a hospital for observation. The boys' father was in the apartment at the time of the accident, which was under investigation. Monterey oils eggs to limit goose growth MONTEREY, Calif., June 6 (UPI) -- The California city of Monterey is covering the eggs produced by its resident Canada geese with corn oil to slowly lower the population of the messy birds. Advertisement Slathering oil on the shells apparently prevents the eggs from hatching, and has become the method of choice in the seaside resort town where the geese have taken up virtually permanent residency at El Estro Park. "It's all about the droppings," City Parks Superintendent Doug Stafford told The Monterey County Herald. "The droppings are so large, and the volume of droppings is so great, it's really not pleasant for people to even come into the park." The goose-control strategy has been sharply limited by wildlife regulations that prohibit shooting the birds or destroying their eggs outright. The Herald said hiring a specially trained dog to harass the birds hasn't quite done the trick. The geese are migratory, but Stafford said the birds appear to becoming less inclined to move on in the summer. Segway just fast enough to catch car thief LONG BEACH, N.Y., June 6 (UPI) -- In what could hardly be called a "high-speed chase," a New York police officer riding a two-wheeled Segway managed to nab three suspected car thieves. Long Beach, N.Y., Police Officer Jose Miguez said that with a top speed of 12 miles per hour, he was able to keep a stolen Mercedes in sight long enough to watch it crash into a pole as the youths bailed out. Advertisement Long Beach recently added the battery-powered vehicles for use on the city's beachfront boardwalk. Miquez told Newsday he had been able, thanks to the Segway's height advantage, to see that the trio in the car had been wearing latex gloves as they waited in a fast-food restaurant drive-through. The suspects sped off with Miquez in pursuit for about four blocks before the car jumped a curb and slammed into a pole. Miquez rolled up alongside the fleeing 13-year-old driver, who promptly gave up the names of his cohorts. "Had I been on foot," Miquez told Newsday, "there's no way I could have caught up with this kid." Dinosaur statue vandalized in Minn. ST. PAUL, Minn., June 6 (UPI) -- Police have yet to find whoever is responsible for vandalizing one of 60 pop-art fiberglass dinosaur statues newly plunked down across St. Paul. One of the 8-foot-long, 4-foot-tall dinosaur's legs was busted off and it's head fractured sometime last weekend, KSTP-TV in Minneapolis reported Wednesday. The statue, which will cost about $4,000 to replace, was anchored to a half-ton concrete base. Artist Matt Sletten, who had painted a St. Paul scene on the statue, was "disappointed" someone would damage it. Advertisement "I spent four days painting it -- 13 hours one day. My wife came down to help me with it," Sletten said The fanciful statues are part of marketing efforts to draw attention to the Science Museum of Minnesota's 100th anniversary. They will be auctioned off this fall to raise money for the museum.
