Quick Takes

Oddball occurences

Gator bait

A Bonita Springs, Fla., woman had quite a shock when she went to answer her front door. It wasn't a door-to-door salesman that had invaded her gated neighborhood. It was an 8-foot bull alligator. "He was pretty big, pretty aggressive," Lori Pachelli said. Instead of confronting the loitering gator, Mrs. Pachelli slammed the door on it and called her husband, who called animal control. But before the trapper could get there, the gator slipped back into a nearby lake where it was later trapped.

Paid attendance

Only grace can get Chicago atheist Hemant Mehta into heaven, but Jim Henderson is at least getting him into church. The 22-year-old Mr. Mehta put his Sunday mornings up for auction on eBay in January, agreeing to attend a church worship service "with an open mind" one time for every $10 bid. Mr. Henderson, president of the Christian organization Off the Map, placed the winning bid last month at $504. Mr. Mehta agreed to visit area churches and then write about them in his atheistic newspaper. Chicago churches can e-mail atheist@off-the-map.org to apply for a visit. "If they want the truth on how they're seen by non-Christians," said Mr. Henderson, "this guy will give it to them."

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