KOMO - News - Offbeat http://www.komonews.com/news/offbeat RSS Feed for KOMO - News - Offbeat en-us Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:14:08 GMT 5,000 gallons of molasses spill on highway http://www.komonews.com/news/offbeat/25616974.html City of Sugar Land spokeswoman Pat Pollicoff told The Houston Chronicle the road was closed until midnight Thursday because of the coating of "healthy, all natural molasses." Fisherman hooks drowning man and reels him in http://www.komonews.com/news/offbeat/25616784.html Bob Greene of Hallowell says he heard what he thought was a bird early Thursday as he was having his morning coffee. He then realized there was a man bobbing in the Kennebec River. Proposed George W. Bush Sewage Plant makes ballot http://www.komonews.com/news/offbeat/25616744.html A measure seeking to commemorate President Bush's years in office by slapping his name on a San Francisco sewage plant has qualified for the November ballot. Officer fired for demanding free Starbucks coffee http://www.komonews.com/news/offbeat/25616664.html An internal affairs report in Daytona Beach, Florida, concludes a police lieutenant demanded free coffee and tea from a Starbucks and threatened employees with slower emergency response times if they refused. Woman shocked to find 8-foot snake in washer http://www.komonews.com/news/offbeat/25576269.html The snake, identified as a reticulated python, somehow got into the water pipes of Mara Ranger's 1800s-era farmhouse and slithered into the machine. McDonald's robber now promoting Big Mac in contest http://www.komonews.com/news/offbeat/25576164.html A Miami man who held up a McDonald's at gunpoint in 1994 is now promoting the restaurant's signature sandwich in song. Kentucky boy checks drivers' speed with toy radar gun http://www.komonews.com/news/offbeat/25560989.html Landon Wilburn, 11, who used to shout at speeders to slow down as they drove through the Stone Lakes subdivision in Louisville, now has taken matters into his own hands. Police: 'Greatest Dad' shirt worn to sex meeting http://www.komonews.com/news/offbeat/25512224.html A 33-year-old Michigan man is accused of wearing a "World's Greatest Dad" shirt to a meeting for sex with what he thought was a 14-year-old girl. White rook to queen 7, then right hook to opponent's face? http://www.komonews.com/news/offbeat/25512829.html Nikolay Sazhin almost knocked out his opponent with a blow to the chin in the second round. But he had to take the queen to win the match. Officer's squad car wrecked 29 minutes into job http://www.komonews.com/news/offbeat/25512154.html Police officer Tim Pochron's first day on the job went poorly: Less than a half-hour into it, his squad car was wrecked in a crash.