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Throwing the Book at ‘Em
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After Jesse Huffman, 19, used the men’s room at the Port of Sweet Grass–north of Shelby, Montana, on the U.S. side of the Canadian border–in August, officers accused him of deliberately clogging the toilet. Although Huffman told them he suffers from irritable bowel syndrome and offered to plunge the toilet, he was arrested for misdemeanor criminal mischief and driven 38 miles to Shelby to be photographed and fingerprinted, spending six hours in custody. Charges were dropped ten days later.
In September staff members at Battersea Dogs Home in London were mystified when dogs began escaping from their cages every night, roaming the premises and getting into containers of food. After setting up surveillance cameras staff learned that Red, a three-year-old greyhound mix, was using his nose and teeth to unlock his cage, then freeing an apparently favored group of other dogs, always starting with Lucky, the dog with whom Red had been found and brought to the kennel.
