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MIDDLETOWN, Ohio (UPI) – A Middletown, Ohio, court has sentenced a woman to a month in jail after she admitted to chasing children and blocking traffic while dressed as a cow.

Michele Allen, 32, pleaded guilty to one count of disorderly conduct after police said she dressed as a cow Saturday night and chased children after urinating on a neighbor’s porch, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported Tuesday.

Allen was ordered by an officer to go home and remain there for the evening, but later in the evening authorities received a call that a woman in a cow costume was blocking traffic. Police said she had alcohol on her breath when an officer arrived and she shouted and swore at the officer.

She was sentenced to one month in the Middletown Jail.

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INYOKERN, Calif. (UPI) – Police in Inyokern, Calif., say five men were charged with stealing up to $8,000 from the walls of a restaurant after one used the bills to pay a court fine.

Investigators said one of the alleged thieves used 10 bills, which had been marked by Homestead customers before being tacked to the restaurant’s wall, to pay a fine and the money was recognized by a clerk, the Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday.

Police said they have recovered about $1,000 of the money that once decorated the walls of the Homestead.

“Part of the place’s charm was all the old bills, all the memories,” said Michael Scott, senior deputy in the Kern County sheriff’s office. “Everybody in town knew exactly where they came from.”

Officers said one of the alleged thieves also was found to have Homestead thumbtacks stuck in the sole of one of his shoes.

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LEEDS, England (UPI) – Police in Leeds, England, said thieves broke into a secure police depot and made off with more than $1 million in video games that had been seized the same day.

Investigators said seven pallets of games — which included 16,000 copies of “Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway” for the PlayStation 3 — were stolen from a truck while the driver was resting, The Daily Telegraph reported.

Officers spotted falsified license plates on the truck being used by the thieves and it was impounded along with the video games. However, before the truck and games could be tested for fingerprinted and DNA, it was stolen from a police depot.

The truck was later found abandoned — and empty — in a Bradley, England, parking lot.

“We are pursuing a number of lines of inquiry, including eBay transactions where a number of the games have been potentially identified as being advertised for sale. Arrests have already been made in respect of this,” a police spokesman said.

A spokesman for video game creator Ubi Soft said the company is working to replace the stolen games.

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LEEDS, England (UPI) – Police in Leeds, England, said thieves broke into a secure police depot and made off with more than $1 million in video games that had been seized the same day.

Investigators said seven pallets of games — which included 16,000 copies of “Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway” for the PlayStation 3 — were stolen from a truck while the driver was resting, The Daily Telegraph reported.

Officers spotted falsified license plates on the truck being used by the thieves and it was impounded along with the video games. However, before the truck and games could be tested for fingerprinted and DNA, it was stolen from a police depot.

The truck was later found abandoned — and empty — in a Bradley, England, parking lot.

“We are pursuing a number of lines of inquiry, including eBay transactions where a number of the games have been potentially identified as being advertised for sale. Arrests have already been made in respect of this,” a police spokesman said.

A spokesman for video game creator Ubi Soft said the company is working to replace the stolen games.

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DES MOINES, Iowa (UPI) – The Iowa Department of Public health said a woman found a dead bat in her coffee filter after she had been drinking the beverage.

The department said the woman, who was from the eastern part of the state, made her coffee in the evening and then drank it the next morning, The (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) Gazette reported.

The woman told officials that when she went to change the filter that evening, she found the dead bat inside.

Ann Garvey, a veterinarian with the department, said the woman underwent treatment for rabies after the bat corpse’s brain was found by the University Hygienic Laboratory in Oakdale, Calif., to have been too cooked by the coffee maker for rabies testing.

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EAST LANSING, Mich. (UPI) – The father of a Michigan State University student said fate landed the 18-year-old in the same dorm room his dad stayed in 30 years ago.

Rich Robell, 50, said he was shocked when his son, Mike, received his room assignment at Emmons Hall, B310, the same room he moved into as a freshman in 1978, The Detroit News reported.

Tim Knight, housing operations complex manager for Brody and West Circle complexes at the school, said many students request the dorm rooms that their parents once occupied, but it is highly unusual for a student to wind up in the same room as a parent strictly by luck of the draw.

“After 37 years as a full-time employee … this is the first time that I’m aware of that someone was simply offered the space. It really is an incredible coincidence,” Knight said.

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OCALA, Fla. (UPI) – A 27-year-old man told his wife he had been robbed to avoid revealing he actually had been tricked by a scam artist, police in Florida say.

Marion County sheriff’s deputies said Mario Oscar Carlos initially told authorities he and his wife he had been robbed of $8,000 in cash, but the man allegedly later confessed to making the story up to avoid embarrassment, the Ocala (Fla.) Star-Banner reported.

A police report alleged that after officers noticed inconsistencies in his robbery account, Carlos admitted he actually lost the money to a spiritual healer.

Carlos allegedly told police the healer told him to place the cash inside a sock so it could be blessed and then put it in the trunk of his car. He said when he checked on the money Friday, he found the cash-filled sock had been replaced by one filled with only $50, the report alleged.

The Star-Banner said for his marital and legal lie, police charged Carlos with filing a false police report.

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PORTLAND, Ore. (UPI) – An Oregon family racked up a $19,370 cell phone bill in international charges, they said.

The Terry family’s 200-page AT&T cell phone bill mostly lists fees for sending e-mail messages and photos, which are otherwise covered in their unlimited plan, KPTV of Portland, Ore., reported Thursday.

But because a laptop using an AirCard was used in Canada to send e-mails back home, fees began to add up.

AT&T says the AirCard allows users to connect to e-mail, the Internet and business applications while traveling, but international use is not included in the Terry’s cell-phone plan.

They said they asked an AT&T employee about the service before their son left the country. They said they were not warned about international fees.

“(We) have a bill that runs normally $250 to $300 for our cell phones,” Dave Terry said. “When AT&T saw the numbers getting over $1,000, I would think it’s their responsibility to inform us that something was amiss because that card could have been stolen.”

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Police targeting her car

CINCINNATI (UPI) — A Cincinnati woman says she has been pulled over repeatedly because police believe her car is connected to a wanted criminal.

Rashawn Edwards said she has been pulled over six times since June — despite not breaking any traffic laws — because new license plate recognition cameras used by Cincinnati police run her vehicle registration or identification number and tell cops the car is tied to a wanted Cleveland criminal Edwards says she doesn’t know, WLWT-TV in Cincinnati reported Wednesday.

“I’ve been pulled over by just about every police district there is in Cincinnati,” she said.

Edwards said each time she is pulled over, police approach the car cautiously.

“It’s not guns drawn, but they are kind of intimidated, so they tell us, ‘Don’t move, stay in the car,’” she said.

She said her complaints to the police department and Alfred Motors, which is leasing her car, have failed to yield any results.

“I would like to keep the car, but at the same time I would like something to be done about it,” she said. “I’m tired of being pulled over every time I drive my car.”

ULM , Germany (UPI) – Police in Germany say they are on the lookout for a skateboarder who used a boost from a motorcycle to travel 62 mph down the Ulm-Stuttgart motorway.

Authorities said the skateboarder, whose feat was captured on video and broadcast on German TV, traveled for two miles down the steep stretch of highway at excessive speeds, Sky News reported Wednesday.

The man, who police said they believe to be a professional stuntman, wore a helmet and a red and white protective suit while speeding down the road. Investigators said he held onto the back of a motorcycle for some time to help him pick up speed.

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