Hold that ketchup!
The city manager hopes to get the logo of Henderson, Nev., redone — because it was mistaken for a hamburger. The circular logo features a mountain range, a lake, buildings and a golf course and boasts more than 14 colors. But “it just all blends together and it looks like a hamburger,’’ Jacob Snow told The Las Vegas Review-Journal.
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Now there’s an app to help you get your kids to do their household chores.
ChoreMonster, the brainchild of an Ohio company, turns such tasks as picking up toys and feeding pets into a game by awarding children points when completed. Parents redeem the points and set the rewards, which can range from privileges like a sleep-over to a cash allowance.
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’Sno fooling! Seattle officially holds the record for the biggest snowball fight.
Guinness World Records counted 5,832 people who gathered Saturday near the Space Needle to pelt each other with the snow. The Snow Day event raised funds for the Boys and Girls Clubs of King County.
Seattle melted the previous record, set in South Korea in 2010, when 5,400 joined in the snowball fight.
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This jail break was justified, a Greek court ruled.
The court in the port city of Igoumenitsa acquitted 15 allegedly illegal immigrants who broke out of a small, filthy lockup with no running water, no bedding and one chemical toilet.
The men escaped by pushing past police guards who entered the cell to clean out garbage.
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A 13-year-old boy ran away in style — when he left Italy in his adoptive dad’s Mercedes and actually made it 500 miles in an attempt to see his birth family in Poland.
The boy, said to be a good go-kart driver, drove the automatic for nearly a day before German cops stopped him near Leipzig. He had set off after arguing with his adoptive mom.