November 7, 2007

WEIRD BUT TRUE
By LUKAS I. ALPERT, Wire Services

This can't be kosher.

A Missouri woman won an annual White Castle hamburger recipe competition by mixing meat from the fast-food chain with traditional Jewish latkes.

Leslye Louis blended 10 White Castle Slyders with grated potatoes and eggs. She calls the result "The Latkes You Crave."

Louis will receive a "Crave Case" of burgers every week for year.

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In Grass Lake Township, Mich., the criminals live up to the town's name.

Cops busted a truck driver carting 1,200 pounds of marijuana at a weigh station there.

The trucker had been stopped for an equipment violation and cops found 48 bales of grass hidden among a shipment of sports drinks.

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Sex ed apparently isn't welcome in The OC.

The student health center at Cal State Fullerton was set to team up with the campus newspaper, The Daily Titan, to insert 4,500 condoms in its Nov. 14 editions. But once word of the giveaway got out - in a promotional poster that showed two stick figures getting busy - anxious campus suits pulled out of the plan.

"If I'm picking up a paper to read it, I would not necessarily want to have a condom there," said Dean of Students Bob Palmer.

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A Michigan couple narrowly escaped death when a 600-pound cow fell 200 feet from a Washington state cliff and landed on the hood of their moving minivan.

Charles and Linda Everson miraculously were unhurt, but the cow had to be euthanized.

The couple was driving through Washington to celebrate their first wedding anniversary.

Charles Everson said that he didn't see the cow coming and that he kept repeating, "I don't believe this. I don't believe this."

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What would Jesus do?

After a gunman robbed a Subway sandwich shop at the True Bethel Baptist Church in Buffalo, the pastor broadcast the surveillance tape at his Sunday sermon and offered a $3,000 reward.

Within minutes, four tips were received and the man was arrested.

It's unclear what's weirder - that a priest used the pulpit to catch a thief, or that a church has a Subway in it.