Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe Bicyclists line up for world record DAVIS, Calif., Oct. 5 (UPI) -- A bike-friendly California college town says 1,200 cyclists have helped it attempt a world record for the longest single line of bicycles. Advertisement Riders from 7 to 97 pedaled a 2-mile loop Sunday through bike-crazed Davis, Calif., home to the U.S. Bicycling Hall of Fame, in an effort to get in the "Guinness World Records" and raise funds for the Davis School Foundation, The Sacramento Bee reported. Yolo County Presiding Judge David Rosenberg, a member of the local Odd Fellows Lodge organizing the event, stood atop a platform with a bullhorn and a cowbell. "Follow the bike in front of you," Rosenberg told departing cyclists via a public-address system. "Keep in a single line. Keep it close." About an hour later, as cyclists crossed the finish line, Rosenberg congratulated them. Advertisement "You will be in the Guinness book of world records," he said. "You did it." Bikes were counted electronically as they finished the route. A final tally, with statements from official witnesses, a video and news clippings, will be submitted to the Guinness organization but Rosenberg said the record was practically in the bag because Guinness created the category at his request before the event. Organizers had wanted to host the world's biggest bike parade in total numbers but felt they couldn't beat an Italian record of more than 48,000 riders, Rosenberg said. Instead they opted for a new category -- the longest single line of bikes. Police nab suspected panty thief OXFORD, Miss., Oct. 5 (UPI) -- Police said they have detained a suspect in a months-long string of women's underwear thefts at the University of Mississippi. Oxford police said the 32-year-old man, who had not been formally charged, is believed to be behind more than a dozen thefts of underwear from the homes of female students beginning July 5, the Memphis Commercial Appeal reported. The man was arrested after a witness took down his license plate number during a break-in Saturday, police said. 'Naked Cowboy' plans presidential run Advertisement NEW YORK, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- The Naked Cowboy, a New York busker famous for playing the guitar in his underwear in Times Square, said he is running for president. The cowboy, real name Robert John Burck, 39, posted a press release on his Web site, nakedcowboy.com, outlining his plan to run for president on a conservative platform, the New York Daily News reported. Burck, who began a campaign for New York mayor last year but dropped out of the race, said his presidential administration would defeat the Taliban, cut taxes, end illegal immigration, protect the second amendment and fight multiculturalism in public institutions. Burck said he will officially announce his run Oct. 6. Set to be spayed, Lab bears 16 puppies WHIDBEY ISLAND, Wash., Oct. 5 (UPI) -- A Labrador retriever that was set to be spayed has given its owners in Washington state a litter of 16 puppies. When the Hurst family of Whidbey Island took 3-year-old chocolate Lab Sugar Baby to a vet for a consultation about spaying her, they found out she was pregnant, the Whidbey (Wash.) News Times reported. The dog started delivering puppies around noon Sept. 28 and didn't finish for more than 12 hours, producing 16 puppies -- one male black lab, six female black labs, five male yellow labs and four female yellow labs. Despite being a chocolate lab, Sugar did not give birth to any brown dogs. Advertisement Lacey Hurst took mother and brood to the veterinarian Wednesday and they are all in good health. She said some of the puppies will have to be bottle-fed because Sugar won't be able to produce enough milk to nurse all of them. The puppies' father is probably a black lab encountered during a camping trip at Lake Stevens over the summer, Hurst said.
