The Weird Week in Review

Public Restroom to Reopen as Food Outlet

A 660-square-foot former men's restroom sitting on the Boston Common is set to reopen -as a sandwich shop! The concrete structure dates back to the 1920s and is known to Bostonians as the "Pink Palace". It hasn't been used as a latrine for several decades. Now the restaurant chain Earl of Sandwich has signed a 15-year lease on the property. The company expects to open the sandwich shop later this year.

Three-year-old Weighs 132 Pounds

Chinese toddler Lu Hao weighed only 5.7 pounds when he was born, but since then he has ballooned to 132 pounds! That makes him five times the size of the average child his age in China.

'His appetite is so good that for a meal he can eat 3 big bowls of rice, even larger than I and his mother,' said Hao's father Lu Yuncheng.

Since Hao was one-year-old his parents have tried to keep a careful eye on his diet.

However, Hao's mother Chen Yuan comments: 'We have to let him be as if we don't feed him he will cry non-stop'.

Hao is driven to nursery school on a motorcycle because he doesn't like to walk. So far, doctors don't know is there is some underlying medical cause for the child's tremendous weight.

On the Bluff, in the Buff

Rescue workers banded together on Tuesday to retrieve a naked woman from the side of a cliff in the San Diego area. The 27-year-old woman was apparently trying to reach Black's Beach, a traditionally clothing-optional beach below the cliff at Torrey Pines State Park. The woman huddled in the altogether for a half hour while a series of ropes was rigged. A female lifeguard rappelled down and hooked the woman into a harness. The woman was then lowered to the bottom, where she was given clothing. She was uninjured. The unnamed woman was given a citation for disregarding signs and entering a restricted area, but will not be billed for the rescue operation.

House Raided by Sheriff, Star, Tank

Maricopa County, Arizona, Sheriff Joe Arpaio and guest lawman Steven Seagal went on a raid Monday to a home where a man was suspected of cockfighting in the West Valley area of Phoenix. The search warrant was executed after the squad rolled into the neighborhood in armored vehicles led by a tank. Neighbors believe the entire operation was staged for Steven Seagal’s reality TV show Lawman. Seagal rode in the tank to the raid. Officers arrested Jesus Llovera, who was unarmed, on suspicion of cockfighting. They also euthanized 115 chickens. Thousands of dollars in property damage resulted from the raid.

Stolen Ostrich Saves Itself

Farmer Florin Diaconescu of Pitesti, Romania was distraught to find his ostrich had been stolen by rustlers. But he needn't have worried -this ostrich may be part homing pigeon, because she escaped and found her own way home! Diaconescu had given up hope of getting the ostrich back, but was amazed when he saw his missing bird running down the road toward home, raising a cloud of dust. The bird was running at about 40 mph when she arrived at the farm.

Burglar Left Dangling over Hot Oil

A fire alarm alerted police to a break-in at Paesan's Pizza in Rotterdam, New York about 1AM Friday. They found Timothy J. Cipriani wedged in an air duct with his legs dangling over a fryer that was still hot.

Brown said a second person may have been involved, but disappeared before officers arrived.

Cipriani broke into the restaurant by first scaling a nearby tree and traversing the roof, Brown said. Once on the roof, he used a hammer to smash open air ducts.

Police took several photographs at the scene and shared them with reporters.

Cipriani was freed from the vent after 30 minutes of police work and was taken, still covered in grease, to the Schenectady County jail and charged with burglary.

One-legged Crow Returns Home

Nettie Trigg, owner of an animal sanctuary in Felixstowe, Suffolk, England, nursed a crow named Percy back to health several years ago, although Percy had to have one leg removed. She considered Percy her pet for two years, and then he was stolen from the rescue center. Three-and-a-half years later, Trigg was chatting with the owner of another sanctuary a few miles away. Maureen Taylor mentioned that someone had abandoned a one-legged crow, which the staff had named Percy. Trigg went to collect Percy and declared him to be the same bird she lost years ago, although the name is a coincidence.