Man accused of $10,000 in Lego thefts

OKLAHOMA CITY, May 6 (UPI) -- Police in Oklahoma said they arrested a man on suspicion of stealing more than $10,000 worth of Lego toys from area Target stores.


Oklahoma City police said employees at a Target store on the southwest side of the city told them Todd Franklin Curtis, 30, of Norman, filled a shopping cart with more than 20 boxes of Lego toys and other items Saturday, left the store to make a call on his cellphone and then came inside and left the store with the cart, The (Oklahoma City) Oklahoman reported Friday.

Curtis was stopped by a store employee and workers showed police surveillance photos from several area stores of a man matching Curtis' description taking Lego toys worth a total of about $10,000.

The photos depicted the man using a 2009 Ford Expedition, the same vehicle Curtis was driving Saturday.

Police said Curtis was released on bond and has not yet been charged.

University blames tp for plumbing woes

BOULDER, Colo., May 6 (UPI) -- The University of Colorado has filed a lawsuit against the manufacturers of "defective" toilet paper blamed for $40,000 in plumbing problems.

The university's Board of Regents filed the lawsuit last week in Boulder County District Court alleging the toilet paper, distributed by Waxie Enterprises Inc. and manufactured by Royal Paper Converting Inc., was to blame for overflowing toilets in 27 academic buildings on campus, The (Boulder) Daily Camera reported Friday.


The suit, which names both companies, claims the damage to the plumbing from the "defective" toilet paper cost more than $40,000 to repair.

"In one instance, the University of Colorado was required to saw-cut concrete and excavate sewer pipes in order to remove an auger from a sewer line that was so bound up and clogged with toilet paper that it became stuck in the plumbing line," the suit states.

A Waxie Enterprises official said he was unaware of the lawsuit and declined to comment on the allegations, the Camera said.

Marriage proposed with garage graffiti

LEHIGH ACRES, Fla., May 6 (UPI) -- A couple said they were angered to learn someone had used the garage at their Florida vacation home as a canvas to spray paint a marriage proposal.

Roger and Carolyn Mooyoung of New York said they received a letter from Lee County Code Enforcement in Florida informing them of the graffiti spray painted on the side of their Lehigh Acres vacation home, WBBH-TV, Fort Myers, reported Friday.

"I feel sorry for them because if they get married, they're going to have problems," Carolyn Mooyoung said. "I mean, that's pretty immature."

Mooyoung said the graffiti is believed to have been painted between 12 a.m. March 15 and 9 a.m. on April 14.

"They write in graffiti, 'Will you marry me?' And then there's a response, 'Yes.' I mean, she had to be right there and be like, 'OK, your turn -- write your response,'" she said.


The homeowner said she has some advice for the engaged couple.

"Don't get married," she said.

Wrong body at funeral, buried in grave

WICHITA FALLS, Texas, May 6 (UPI) -- A Texas funeral home said an error in communication led to a body going to the wrong memorial service and being buried in someone else's grave.

Rick Shaffer, director at the Falls Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Wichita Falls, said he had been showing the family of Sylvia Wallace a casket meant for a funeral later in the day about three weeks ago and he then told an employee to prepare the casket for the funeral, the Wichita Falls Times Record News reported Friday.

"I said, 'Get that pink casket out and get her ready and get her in that casket,'" he said. "And he was thinking for some reason that I was talking about Mrs. Wallace. But I was talking about the other woman."

Shaffer said Wallace's body was in the casket during the funeral and was buried at the woman's grave site. He said the mistake was discovered and the body was exhumed and replaced with the correct remains six days later.

The funeral director said a family member of the woman who was supposed to be buried was understanding about the situation.

"He said he understood the mistake and said, 'Let's just get it corrected and move on,'" Shaffer said.

However, Wallace's son, James Elser, was upset to see his mother's body once it was recovered.


"She just didn't look good at all," Elser said. "I wondered if they even embalmed her. It looked like they didn't. I mean, it was a really, really tough sight to see my mom, an angel, look like that after being buried in the ground for six days."