That’s Odd

nificantly last week after successive rounds of ranked-choice voting numbers were factored in.

The shifting numbers came after an embarrassing flub by the Board of Elections, which released voting information that included 135,000 test ballots.

“The Board apologizes for the error and has taken immediate to ensure the most accurate up to date results are reported,” it said in a statement after the foul-up.

Perfect Burglar?

A burglar in Washington State made himself at home last week when he entered a home in Covington and fixed himself some food and began to do the laundry.

The thief entered the home through an open window at around 4 a.m.

“Remember that Don Henley song, how does it go? ‘Well I coulda been an actor but I [wound] up here... people love it when you lose, they love dirty laundry,’” the sheriff’s office wrote on Facebook.

“But this story isn’t a top 10 Billboard hit, but real life. On 6/30/2021 a Covington family called 911 when they found this dude doing laundry in their home just after 4:00 a.m.”

The thief ran out of the house when the occupants woke up. Police nabbed him a few blocks away and found that he was in possession of a number of items which had been taken from the couple, including car keys, headphones, and some cash.

Wonder if the thief remembered to add fabric softener when he did the laundry.

Baby Boom

There were a lot of diapers and screaming babies in one Texas hospital recently, when the facility delivered 100 babies in two stretches totaling 91 hours.

“While Andrews Women’s Hospital is known as a high-volume delivery hospital, the influx in births was considered rare and exceptional,” Baylor Scott and White medical center said in a press release.

Beginning on June 24, Andrews Women’s Hospital in Fort Worth said it delivered 52 babies in 47 hours.

Then, on June 28, the hospital’s labor and delivery team delivered 55 babies in 44 hours.

This is not the first time that the hospital was bouncing with babies. In 2018, the staff delivered 48 babies in 41 hours.

With so many babies, there are bound to be some more-frequent baby names. For boys, Atlas and Daniel were popular. Six of the baby girls were named Gianna.

“The hospital averages about 16 deliveries per day, and welcomed nearly 6,000 babies in 2020, including 100 sets of twins and two sets of triplets,” the hospital stated.

Oh, baby!

Hot Dog!

Joey Chestnut reigned again as hot dog-eating champion by scarfing down a whopping 76 hot dogs in 10 minutes – one more wiener than his own world record set last year – as he nabbed the title at the annual Nathan’s Famous International Hot Dog-Eating Contest on Coney Island this week.

This is Joey’s 14th victory in 15 years.

“I feel like I could eat a little more,” Chestnut, 37, said afterward, although he admitted feeling “a little bloated.”

He added, “I’m just super happy. In the second half, the crowd pushed me.”

The second place finisher trailed Joey by 26 hot dogs.

New York City Mayor de Blasio was on hand, wearing a hot dogshaped hat, to congratulate and share his insights. “It is a dog-eat-dog world … We should relish this moment!” he quipped.

The winner of the women’s division, Michelle Lesco of Tucson, downed 30 and three-quarter hot dogs, including a piece she dropped on the ground but picked up and ate nonetheless to cheers from the crowd.

“I feel awesome,” she said, adding, “The crowd was crazy.”

Crazy, Michelle, is someone who eats 76 hot dogs at a time.

Too Sweet for the Beat

Dogs that work for the police force need to be tough. In fact, if they’re not tough enough, they can be booted from the program.

That’s what 54 dogs in China learned recently. The canines are being auctioned off so they can find themselves new homes after they flunked out of a police academy training program.

The Criminal Investigation Police University of China in northeastern Liaoning province announced that the dogs – primarily German shepherds, Dutch shepherd hybrids and Belgian malinois – will be auctioned this week.

The canines were rejected from the police dog training program for having timid personalities, physical weakness or frailty, failure to follow instructions, and refusing to bite when prompted.

It’s a dog-eat-dog world.

Picasso Puzzle

A painting by Picasso is finally seeing the light after being hidden in a closet in a house in Maine for half a century.

John McInnis Auctioneers, based in Massachusetts, confirmed that the painting entitled “Le Tricorne” sold on Saturday.

The 16 x 16 inch painting is signed and dated in the year 1919. It is believed to be a study for the stage curtain Picasso painted for a ballet of the same name that debuted that year in London, according to the New-York Historical Society. That curtain has been on display at the historical society in New York City since 2015.

The mixed-media painting sold for $150,000.

The painting was found in a closet in a home the seller’s father inherited from a female relative who studied art in Europe in the 1920s.

“This painting was discovered in a house owned by my great-aunt which was passed down to her from her uncle in the late 1930s,” a statement from the seller statement reads. “There were several paintings kept in a closet for 50 years which were left by her at the time of the passing of the house to my father and now to me.”

Sounds like it’s (e)state of the art.

Bad Bills Bail

What happens when you can’t pay bail? Well, a man in Maine decided to take things into his own hands and posted his $200 bail with counterfeit bills.

The man had been picked up when police responded to reports of a stolen vehicle. Although he was not involved in the call, there was an outstanding warrant for him for theft from a Walmart and so he was picked up by police.

While in the slammer, he told officers that had enough money to post $200 in bail but when the bail commissioner arrived, he tried to pay with two counterfeit $100 bills.

He was subsequently denied bail and was returned to jail with the additional charge of forgery.

He later posted bail of $100 later in the day.

You know what they say: fake it till you make it.