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Sorry mom, sorry dad; It's not happening

By Times wires and other sources
Published October 20, 2006

If people who know the 10-year-old son of Kenneth and Paula Sutton of Monaca, Pa., were worried about him because, well, he's the son of Kenneth and Paula Sutton, fear not. He has the kind of smarts that skip a generation. According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, a motorist alerted police that the boy was running along the highway. Police picked him up. Seems he had been in a car with dad, who he said had been drinking when he crashed into a guard rail while trying to light a marijuana pipe. Mom, driving in front of them, stopped and told the boy to get in the car. No way, he said. He knew where she had been. He was not hurt. Mom and Dad face charges of DUI and child endangerment.

Ernest T. Bass will not be a problem

What a Goober. In the race for sheriff in Grant County, Wisc., William Fenrick decided that there wasn't enough star power, so he changed his name to Andy Griffith. (Andy Griffith, for those who don't know, is an actor who played a folksy sheriff on TV when there were like three channels, all in vibrant black and white.) "Nobody knows who's running or what the issues are, if there are any issues, or how the people differ," said Griffith, 42. An independent, he'll be up against Republican incumbent Keith Govier and Democrat Doug Vesperman.

His elbow had a brush with Picasso

Las Vegas casino magnate Steve Wynn was showing off his Picasso to friends when his poor peripheral vision cost him. Millions. He just agreed to sell the work Le Reve (The Dream), above, for $139-million in real money. He was gesturing, got kind of animated, and - whoops - his elbow went through it. You hate it when you stick an elbow through a painting worth nine digits. "Oh, (shucks)," one of the pals says he said. Wynn called off the sale and plans to repair and keep it.

Define 'threat'

The city of Philadelphia thought it was bad enough newsstand owner Mouhammed Shaukat was hawking porn in the shadow of the Liberty Bell. They asked him to stop displaying it in the tourist area. He got mad and put up a sign threatening to rape and kill anyone who complained about the display. (Here, we might normally put what the sign said, but you don't want to know.) Now the City Council wants to ban all vending on the street. Shaukat, who has a wife and two daughters, says that just because the sign said he would rape and kill, it wasn't really a threat. Uh-huh.

Compiled from Times wires and other sources by staff writer Jim Webster.

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