NAPLES, Italy — Problems? Yes, conceded Tommaso Sodano, the vice mayor here, Naples has problems. Unpaid debts have reportedly topped $2 billion. Many streets are pocked with potholes. The police department is underfunded, organized crime operates like a shadow state, and illegal dumps are scattered around what is still a grittily beautiful port city.

And then there is what dogs leave behind on the sidewalks.

Naples has no shortage of that, either. Yet to the surprise of some people, including more than a few Neapolitans, the municipal administration is trying to stake out a reputation as a civic innovator by positioning Naples at the cutting edge of dog-waste eradication. By taking DNA samples. Of dogs.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/23/world/europe/a-forensic-approach-to-a-sidewalk-nuisance.html?_r=0

CLAIREMONT - Police have made an arrest in connection with an attack on a woman inside a restroom at a Big Lots in Clairemont.

Gregory Schwartz was arrested by police Sunday afternoon near Clairemont Mesa Boulevard and Diane Avenue.

The woman says the attack occurred she was using the restroom at Big Lots -- located at 4829 Clairemont Mesa Blvd. -- on Friday when a man entered the stall. She says he was wearing a pink Barbie costume.

"I was looking and I saw two feet slowly planting on the floor and they were a man's bare feet," said the woman, who wished to remain anonymous. "He went underneath the stall really quickly and then he came into my stall and the door was still locked. I didn't even have time to act."

http://www.10news.com/news/woman-says-she-was-attacked-by-a-man-in-a-barbie-costume-inside-a-san-diego-area-big-lots-restroom

LEXINGTON, Miss. (AP) — Workers at a Mississippi funeral home say they found a man alive and kicking when they opened a body bag.

Holmes County Coroner Dexter Howard calls it a miracle that 78-year-old Walter Williams is alive.

The coroner was called to Williams' home in Lexington, a community north of Jackson, where family members believed he had died.

Howard says Williams had no pulse and was pronounced dead Wednesday at 9 p.m.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/28/walter-williams-body-bag_n_4874394.html

This is proof that Twitter really is the best way to get a company to give you personal customer service.

According to the Daily Star, early this week, a man in England Tweeted Domino’s telling them “Hello. I’ve just made love to one of your pizzas and burnt my penis severely. Please advise on your terms for a refund. Thanks.”

The person manning the Domino’s U.K. Twitter account actually wrote him back, apologized, and gave the e-mail address for their head office.

But that’s not the end of the story. He then Tweeted Domino’s telling them to warn people of the dangers of having sex with a pizza. Again they wrote him back and said, “we will look for a way to notify customers in the future.”


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QUINCY – Honey Dew Donuts is coming to the Quincy YMCA, but without the doughnuts.

On Tuesday, the city’s licensing board approved a plan to open a Honey Dew Donuts at the café counter inside the new $30 million YMCA at 79 Coddington St. It will be the only Honey Dew store in Quincy.

Sara Trubiano, spokeswoman for the South Shore YMCA, said Honey Dew, which is leasing first-floor counter space from the Y, will open within the next few weeks.

Because of the Y’s focus on physical fitness, the vendor won’t sell doughnuts, Trubiano said.

“It’s definitely tailored to the healthy lifestyle the Y supports,” she said.

The new Honey Dew will sell coffee, low-fat muffins, salads, sandwiches, yogurt, fruit cups and smoothies, Trubiano said. All menu items first must be approved by Y leadership.

http://www.patriotledger.com/article/20140226/NEWS/140227503/0/SEARCH

A New York real estate boss and amateur painter allegedly went to his ex-girlfriend's apartment and drew penises on his own artwork.

Sean Ludwick, 41, managing partner at Black House Development, allegedly used a key given to him by ex-girlfriend Lana Trevisan, 40, while they were still together to enter her apartment while drunk Feb. 17, the New York Post reported Tuesday.

Ludwick allegedly painted penises on his own artwork at Trevisan's apartment and dumped a large amount of paint on the floor.

He allegedly used a knife to etch the words "studio art" on two stools.

Read more: http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2014/02/25/Man-went-to-exs-painted-penis-on-own-artwork/UPI-87351393356496/#ixzz2uZ3M8tRH

The “raging rabbi” from White Plains who impersonated a police officer in road rage incidents around Westchester last year pleaded guilty in Mamaroneck Thursday, the last of four guilty pleas in the bizarre case.

Alfredo Borodowski, 49, a rabbi at Congregation Sulam Yaakov in Larchmont, was spared a criminal conviction by pleading guilty to a reduced charge of second-degree harassment, a violation. He will also get no jail time or probation as long as he stays out of trouble for a year. He had already pleaded guilty under the same terms in Greenburgh, White Plains and Yonkers.

http://www.lohud.com/article/20140227/NEWS07/302270038

Daniel Kowalski, 21, was arrested in his LaGrange Highlands, Ill. home on Monday evening after law enforcement received a tip he may be cooking meth, according to a release from the Cook County Sheriff's Office.

Inside the home, officers found found meth-making supplies like glass beakers, burners, chemicals and instructions for cooking the drug, as well as 12 jars of psychedelic mushrooms -- and Kowalski wearing a "Los Pollos Hermanos" t-shirt in reference to the fictional fried chicken restaurant-cum-meth lab front on the popular AMC series "Breaking Bad."

Kowalski, who is on electronic monitoring after being previously arrested in 2013 on suspicion of running a meth lab, may have also aroused suspicion more easily due to the fact that meth labs are "extremely rare in this part of the state," according to Cook County Sheriff's Spokesman Ben Breit.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/26/daniel-kowalski-meth_n_4860318.html?utm_hp_ref=weird-news

KERMIT, WV -- A Pizza Hut in southern West Virginia, where a district manager was caught on surveillance video urinating into a sink, is closing permanently.

The video dated Jan. 29 shows the manager at the Kermit, W.Va., restaurant urinating in a metal sink in a food preparation area. The incident occurred after business hours. The employee was fired.

Pizza Hut Corp. spokesman Doug Terfehr said Wednesday the decision to permanently close the restaurant was made Feb. 19, the day after the video surfaced.

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/national_world&id=9445950