Officials at a Massachusetts cemetery have made a monumental decision — no profanity on headstones.
The issue came up because the family of tragic rapper Sonny Santiago, 23, planned to have a song lyric with a four-letter word chiseled on his epitaph.
“We’ve never had a problem like this before,’’ said an official at Pine Grove Cemetery in Lynn.
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Just their pot luck.
Six Oregon smokejumpers parachuted into a forest fire — and landed in a marijuana garden that apparently had just sprouted for the season.
They tipped off authorities, who later hiked in and took away the mystery marijuana growers’ cash crop.
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Anyone lose an emu?
A Pennsylvania man got a surprise when he looked out his kitchen window in suburban Allentown and thought he saw a very tall wild turkey.
Turned out it was a 6-foot emu, a flightless, ostrich-like bird native to Australia.
No owners have turned up yet, so the bird is going to spend quality time at an emu farm in the Poconos.
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Now they’re gonna have to take the stairs.
Teddy and Gus, two house cats in suburban Durango, Colo., have purrfect owners who put up for them a catwalk from a second-story window to a tree.
But the homeowners association complained, so now the plump felines will have to use the ground-floor pet door.
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Chalk this one up to law-enforcement overzealousness.
Two British cops warned a 10-year-old girl playing hopscotch outside her home in Ramsgate, Kent, that chalking grid lines on the pavement might be an act of vandalism.
Her dad complained to the head constable, whose spokesman sheepishly said, “It would not appear to have been necessary’’ to frighten the child that way, since the chalk would wash off in the rain.