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AP Strange But TrueMoved: 5/8/2008 04:57NUDE HIKER
SEDONA, Ariz. (AP) - John Mosley might have to buy some hiking shorts. Deputies in Arizona charge he was hiking in the buff. Authorities say Mosley told them he didn't think it was illegal to hike naked in a public forest. Deputies report two women complained, saying they were confronted by a naked man, who offered to snap their pictures. Mosley, who's from St. George, Utah, is now charged with indecent exposure. Authorities say they're looking for people who might have encountered the naked man.
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JACKPOT WINNER
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Texas state worker Connie Thiele is a new millionaire. She's won a 21 million dollar jackpot playing the slots at a Las Vegas casino. She says she wasn't having much luck with one Megabucks slot machine at the Palms Casino Resort, so she switched to another. Thiele says she put in 20 bucks and won on the first pull. According to the casino, Thiele works as a travel coordinator for the Texas Department of Information Resources. She and her husband are regular visitors to Vegas.
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ONLINE PIZZA
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - There's a lot of dough in online pizza. Papa John's has just passed the one billion dollar mark in Internet pizza sales. Online orders are hotter than a pepperoni pie covered with red pepper. The company says Internet orders have climbed more than 50 percent a year since the service started seven years ago. The hottest markets for Papa John's Internet orders include the Austin, Texas, and Washington, D.C., areas. Officials of Papa John's promise new wrinkles to high-tech ordering, but they're not revealing just what's in the oven.
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TARDY PROSECUTOR
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) - One Southern California prosecutor is making a big deal of a five buck fine. Riverside County's chief prosecutor has filed a 47-page appeal, after one of his deputies was docked $5 for being late to court. The appeal argues the judge violated rules governing contempt of court by imposing a fine without a written explanation. The tardy prosecutor had already apologized to the judge for being late.
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ROBBERY-PHOTO OP
BENSALEM, Pa. (AP) - No security video needed to ID this suspect. Police in Bensalem, Pennsylvania, report a man chatted-up three women at a bar and even snapped some pictures with them. According to officers, a short while later the man robbed the women at a Bucks County convenience store. Public Safety Director Fred Harran says Andre Smith was busted after the victims showed police the pics they had taken in the tavern. Smith was arrested at his apartment and is now charged with robbery and theft.
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BRIT'S FLYING SAUCERS
LONDON (AP) - It will be the emo robot cars versus the flying saucers in the English countryside this summer. No, it's not some sci-fi flick, but an idea incubator from the British Ministry of Defense. The agency's "Grand Challenge" offered $600,000 to six finalists to build high-tech devices that will be tested in a mock battle. The Bruton School for Girls in Somerset came up with an unmanned buggy that can ID friend or foe based on emotional clues from a gunman's movement. Other concepts include flying saucers with heat and motion sensors, and swarms of tiny camera-carrying helicopters. The winner gets more development money and a trophy made from the recycled metal of a World War II fighter plane.
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