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He was running on and on with nothing on

By TIMES WIRES
Published February 17, 2007

Darryl Delacruz didn't realize that his jogging habits were upsetting so many people. Now that he knows, he has agreed to be a little more conformist. Meaning, he'll only jog with clothes on now. For a time, Delacruz enjoyed running through Fremont Older Open Space Preserve near San Jose, Calif., wearing only his running shoes. "We don't see it as appropriate behavior," said Kerry Carlson of the preserve. "A significant number of people feel uncomfortable with a nude person running around." Delacruz assures that was not his intent at all. "I'll go back, but I'll be wearing clothes," he said. "I don't want people to have the wrong impression." He said that his running around naked was a "liberating feeling" and that it was "about getting in touch with nature, not meeting people." He was fined $95 for indecent exposure.

One lottery win is luck. Two is skill

Raymond Snouffer Jr. of Maplewood, Minn., went out and bought a ticket to the Northstar Cash lottery game on Saturday. He played 11-14-23-26-31. They came in, and he won $25,000. But that didn't stop him from buying a ticket on Sunday night. He played 3-7-11-19-28. They came in, too, and he won another $25,000. Lottery officials said that no one has ever one on consecutive days before, and the odds of it happening are "virtually incalcuable." Snouffer was unavailable for comment, because when you win $50,000 in a weekend, you don't have to talk to anyone. When Snouffer's father, Ray Sr., was reached for comment, he said, "Holy buckets!"

Wake up, you're under arrest

It was a tense situation outside Justin Stasney's home in Walhalla, S.C. SWAT teams were poised. It was a standoff. Officers surrounded the house after Stasney, 26, fired shots from the house, causing his mother to flee. They heard breaking glass, and then everything went quiet. And they waited. Waiting always causes tension during standoffs. After four hours, they decided to send a SWAT team around to the back of the house. From that vantage point, they saw that Stasney was sleeping in his recliner. So they went in, woke him up, and arrested him. Deputies recovered about 15 guns in the house.

Don't store evidence in a garbage bag

A sculpture called the "origami crane," stolen from Triangle Park in La Selva Beach, Calif., was found on Saturday in the middle of Solano Avenue. Hooray! It was in the road, wrapped up in a brown garbage bag. So the police took it in to evidence and are they wishing now that they had taken it out of that garbage bag. Bad stuff happens when something is left in a garbage bag. "Somebody thought it was garbage," Sgt. Fred Plageman said. "It was human error on our part. We are extremely disappointed and apologetic." It is believed to be under tons of garbage at the Santa Cruz County dump. It was valued at about $3,000.

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