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 DISPATCHES | Issue: "New breed of homeless" February 28, 2009

Quick Takes

Oddball occurences | The Editors

Illustration by Krieg Barrie

Getting their goat

Police in Nigeria have arrested a goat on suspicion of car theft. According to a spokesman for the Kwara state police, a group of vigilantes spotted a pair of crooks trying to break into and steal a Mazda 323. But when the vigilantes attempted to stop the robbery, the car thieves fled. "They pursued them," the spokesman told Reuters. "However, one of them escaped while the other turned into a goat." Police say they are holding the animal until they can either scientifically prove the suspected car thief morphed into the hoofed animal or until the goat's owner comes forward to claim ownership.

On the road

For the sake of the cleanup, workers could only be thankful it wasn't a tanker truck that crashed. And sorry that they didn't bring marshmallows. An 18-wheeler carrying nearly 24 tons of cocoa powder crashed on Feb. 2 just outside of Elkview, W.Va., spilling its contents onto the I-79 roadway and forcing a closure on the interstate's southbound lanes for 14 hours. The truck's driver escaped the crash with only minor injuries, but his payload of 47,000 pounds of cocoa was ruined, intermittently catching fire on the interstate as blowtorch-wielding rescue workers attempted to peel back the truck's roof.

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February 28, 2009, Vol. 24, No. 4

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