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By Times Wires
Published October 2, 2007

Paper caper

Town plans to get to the bottom of thefts

Someone is stealing toilet paper from the county government building in Fond du Lac, Wis. County executive Allen Buechel says that someone comes in once or twice a week and takes a half-dozen rolls per visit. The only real clue they have in the case so far is that it is most likely a man, since the paper is disappearing from only the men's room. There is a plan to solve the case. "Someone is going to walk in on him when he's doing it and we'll catch him," Buechel said. Okay, it's not so much a plan as an eventuality. Buechel says that the last laugh is on the robber. "We don't buy the best toilet paper."

Dearly beloved

Couple finds others share wedding date

Melody Kloska and Matt Behrs, above, got married on a Lake Michigan beach in southern Wisconsin in August. To celebrate, they stuffed their vows in a bottle with the date, Aug. 18, and threw it in the lake sounds like littering, but whatever. Well, a month goes by, and on the other side of the lake, in Michigan, Lynnette Dubendorf was walking her dogs on the beach and found the bottle. She took out the paper, read the vows and saw that the couple had married on the beach. Lynnette and her husband, Fred, married on the beach. Then she saw it was on Aug. 18. Lynnette and Fred tied the knot on Aug. 18, 1979. Freaky. Initially, she wasn't going to respond, fearing it would encourage people to throw stuff in the lake (see!?). Kloska and Behrs said the note made them feel like they did the right thing in getting married. Awww.

Without her, he would be a wreck

What girl doesn't grow up dreaming that one day a marriage proposal to her will be painted on the side of a demolition derby car? That's how Kevin Weaver of Danville, Pa., popped the question to Karen Slusser. Weaver was getting ready for the big smashup in Bloomsburg, painting his car to advertise Slusser's rabbit-breeding business and adding a stuffed bunny to the roof. Then he added the words "Karen Slusser will u marry me?" running from hood to trunk, and gave the bunny a fake ring to hold. Slusser said yes, even though Weaver finished third in the derby.

Update

Smoked leg

There could be a custody battle over the leg that was found in a smoker bought at auction last week. John Wood, the original owner of the leg who held on to it after it was amputated in a plane crash, wants it back. Shannon Whisnant, who found the dried appendage after buying the smoker at an auction in Maiden, N.C., is trying to work out some joint-custody arrangement after he found out people will pay to see it. "It's a strange incident and Halloween's just around the corner," Whisnant said. "The price will be going up if I get the leg." Wood admits he has enjoyed the attention since the sale, but wants his leg back. "He's making a freak show out of it. I just think it's despicable."

Compiled from Times wire services and other sources by staff writer Jim Webster, who can be reached at jwebster@sptimes.com.

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