The King of Potato Heads
The Elvis Presley estate has signed a deal for Hasbro Inc. and PPW Toys to release an Elvis version of Mr. Potato Head.
The first of the Elvis potato heads will be released for Elvis Tribute Week in August. The toy will be in a jumpsuit. A second version — with the likeness dressed in black leather — will be on the market for Christmas.
Kevin Kern, a spokesman for Presley’s Graceland estate, said the new toy is one of 15,000 Elvis-licensed products.
Get your face in space
Always wanted to fly in space? Now at least your photo can reach orbit.
NASA is inviting the public to send their portrait into space aboard one of the two remaining space shuttle flights, and thousands have already taken advantage of the opportunity. To participate, upload your picture to a NASA website: http://faceinspace.nasa.gov.
You can select which space shuttle to fly — Discovery in September or Endeavor, targeted for November. You can also just fly your name, without a photo.
After the flight, participants can download a special certificate.
Looking for a husband? Don’t try calling 911
An Alliance, Ohio, woman spent three days in jail for calling the 911 emergency line five times seeking a husband.
The dispatcher was flabbergasted by the requests and asked Audrey Scott, “You need to get a husband?”
The 57-year-old Scott responded, “Yes.”
Told that she could face arrest for misusing 911, Scott responded, “Let’s do it.”
Scott was convicted last week of improper use of the 911 system and was sentenced to the three days in jail, which she had already served since her arrest. Seven other days were suspended if she stays out of trouble for a year.
After her release, Scott blamed the case on alcohol.
Officer may be charged for saving newborn fawn
Toledo, Ohio, Police Sgt. Mark Fry resuscitated a fawn he helped deliver by emergency caesarean section after its mother was hit by a car. He performed CPR on the newborn, then took the fawn to his home, where he and his wife nursed the animal hourly with goat’s milk.
But Ohio wildlife officials say the officer broke at least two laws by doing so, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. He could be charged with misdemeanor possession and rehabilitation of a wild white-tailed deer.
“It hurts,” Fry said. “You try to do something good and this is how you get paid back for it.”
Toledo Police Chief Mike Navarre defends the sergeant’s actions in the May 21 incident, and said he warned the officials that pursuing charges against Fry likely will bloom into a “national public relations disaster.”
Crocodiles hang 18
Crocodiles can surf ocean currents to take long leisurely journeys across open seas in the South Pacific, a researcher said Wednesday.
The research by a group of Australian ecologists published this week in the British Ecological Society’s “Journal of Animal Ecology” explains how the world’s largest living reptile came to occupy so many South Pacific islands despite having little stamina for swimming.
Like a surfer catching a wave, estuarine crocodiles — which can grow up to 20 feet — can ride currents to cross hundreds of miles of open sea, study author Hamish Campbell said.
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