Bathroom reading

Published 11:18 pm Saturday, May 24, 2008

Hey, sports fans: The police department in Scottsdale, Ariz., wants you. The department is posting help-wanted ads in the bathrooms at sports stadiums around the nation to recruit new officers. They promise not to ask whether applicants have a wide stance.

A marketing company working with the city says people look at bathroom ads for 90 seconds, more if they have to wait in line. This means the ads should be especially effective in recruiting women, since an entire baseball game can be played in less time than it takes to get through some of the lines for the ladies’ room.

Salute the Kaptain: Robbie “Kaptain” Knievel, son of Evel Knievel, successfully jumped his motorcycle over 24 delivery trucks Saturday. For his next feat, he can leap over a pile of Hummers abandoned by owners who decided it would be cheaper to pay for towing than fuel.

Today Dear Abby counsels a woman whose husband took her old diary when she pressed him to throw away letters from his exes. Abby suspects he may just be holding on to the diary to teach his wife a lesson. If she gets it back, she’ll definitely learn a lesson — not to hide her diary under her pillow.