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THE FUNNIES TOP TEN SATURDAY People are like stained-glass
windows. They sparkle and shine when the Japanese Stork Gets Prosthetic BeakAn oriental white stork whose beak snapped off last year after getting stuck in metal wiring got a replacement Friday, a news report said. Taisa had lost weight since he broke his beak last November because he found it difficult to catch live fish, and no longer got along with his female breeding mate due to stress, Kyodo News agency quoted keepers at Akita's Omoriyama Zoo as saying. Dentist Toshiaki Chiba attached a plastic resin prosthetic to the end of Taisa's broken beak using a dental adhesive, according to the report. The birds are a specially protected species in Japan, but the country's last
wild oriental white stork died in 1971. In September, a breeding center in
western Japan released five captive-bred birds into the wild in an effort to
revive the species. Developer Vows to Use Pig Farm As Revenge A developer has threatened to make a big stink after the Kootenai County Commission denied his request to rezone property he owns at the edge of town for a professional building. Specifically, Steve Nagel plans to park a pig farm on the site, with hundreds of squealing porkers greeting visitors to the northern Idaho town. "Now maybe when I go to negotiate with these people I'll get a little better response," Nagel told The Spokesman-Review newspaper. But county and city officials doubt that Nagel will follow through, noting that threats to go into the hog business have become planning dispute cliches. "That's the first thing they say: 'I'm going to put a pig farm on it,'" Rathdrum Mayor Brian Steele said. "I think it's a common statement." Nagel, an insurance agent, wants to build a professional building on his county land for his insurance company and a few other businesses. The County Commission denied the request Nov. 3 because Rathdrum officials opposed the zoning change and would prefer to annex the land into the city so it could have sewer and water service. Nagel doesn't want to be in the city because he would have to pay an estimated $300,000 to extend a sewer line a half-mile and a water line a mile under railroad tracks to the property. He also said the city shouldn't be able to sway planning decisions of the county. In protest, he plans to raise breeder hogs on the property, a use that's already allowed. County officials said they have had an agreement to discuss zoning issues with the city since the early 1990s. Commission Chairman Gus Johnson said the commission postponed its decision 30 days to give Nagel time to ask Rathdrum for an annexation timeline and how long it would take the city to bring sewer and water to the property. But Nagel didn't show up to the Nov. 3 meeting, so the commission denied the request. Nagel, a Rathdrum native, said the pig farm, which he calls "Makin' Bacon Ranch," is no bluff, and that he's negotiating a contract to buy hogs from southern Idaho. "I'm not going to stand back and let them stab me in the back again," Nagel
said. Superintendent Arrested After Camera FoundA school superintendent was arrested for allegedly placing a hidden video camera resembling an air freshener dispenser in a women's bathroom at the school administration office. Danny Edward Doyen, 46, told investigators that he bought the camera with a school district credit card and placed it in a restroom to obtain nude photos of female employees, according to the McLennan County Sheriff's Office. Doyen has been superintendent in Bruceville-Eddy, a town of about 1,500 residents about 20 miles south of Waco, since 2002. He was booked Wednesday into the McLennan County Jail on a charge of improper photography or visual recording, punishable by up to two years in a state jail. The school board had an emergency meeting Wednesday night and placed Doyen on administrative leave. School officials searched all campus bathrooms and found no recording devices, so they believe the camera in the administrative building was an isolated incident. "The board deeply regrets this occurrence and wants to assure the community that all steps will be taken to assure the safety and well being of all students, employees and visitors," the Bruceville-Eddy school board said in a news release Thursday. According to records, a school business office clerk alerted investigators this week after finding a school credit card statement for a $299 purchase with no vendor name, then discovering it was from a surveillance company. Two days later, Doyen submitted an invoice for the purchase, which included a description of the camera and a Web site address, according to records. The clerk learned about the item online, then remembered that Doyen two weeks earlier had mentioned the need for air fresheners in the men's restroom and office hallway, according to an affidavit. The clerk and other women employees then found the fake air freshener on a shelf about 3 feet away from the toilet, according to court records. Investigators reported finding the hidden camera on a shelf in Doyen's school
district office after obtaining search warrants for his office and home.
Officers also reported seizing computer equipment and related materials from
Doyen's school office, computer equipment from his daughter's bedroom and 11
weapons from Doyen's bedroom. Anthony Sheppard shocked his mother this week with a telephone call, a day after he was reported dead. "When he called me I thought I was talking to a ghost," said Verna McCowan. Oakland police on Tuesday bungled the identification of a man shot to death after finding Sheppard's identification card on the victim. Authorities alerted his mother of the shooting, and released the details to reporters. Sheppard, 23, said he was shocked when he walked up to a group of friends on Wednesday who were crying while reading a newspaper account of his death. The dead man was later determined to be Mark Martin, 26, of Oakland, who was identified by fingerprints. No suspects were arrested. Sheppard told authorities he had lost his identification card several years ago. Alameda County Sheriff's spokesman Lt. Jim Knudsen said Thursday that police provided coroner's officials with the man's identification. No fingerprints were initially taken, and Sheppard's family was alerted. "A day or two later, the mother calls and says, 'I just talked to my son,'"
Knudsen said. "We're human and we feel sorry for what happened."
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