Thursday, July 21, 2005

Police say one man could be responsible for a string of bizarre break-ins over four years involving a naked perpetrator who sometimes tickles the feet of sleeping women.

New Smyrna Beach police say they've been unable to catch him in part because they haven't had much evidence.

Usually the intruder is naked, he tickles the women's feet and sometimes he's discovered and flees before touching them. Each time the man ran off after being noticed.

Kirby said police know only that the suspect is white, thin and appears young.

"There's not been a lot to go on there," he said.

New Smyrna Beach is 44 miles northeast of Orlando if you want to get tickled.

A woman who was branded with letters from the Consolidated Edison logo when she fell off a skateboard onto a searing hot manhole cover in Manhattan has filed a lawsuit seeking unspecified damages from the utility.

Elizabeth C. Wallenberg, 27, was burned just above her buttocks and on her left arm when she fell off her skateboard onto a cover over a steam pipe at Second Avenue and 13th Street in the East Village shortly after midnight. "It literally looked like a brand that had been applied by someone," it was said about the burn marks left on Wallenberg's body.

The lawsuit, filed in Manhattan's state Supreme Court, accused Con Ed of "negligence, carelessness, recklessness and culpable conduct" related to Wallenberg's injuries.

Bald men in Germany have no entitlement to state support for toupees, a court ruled.

Throwing out a legal challenge by a bald 46-year-old man, the court said the state was not discriminating against men even though health insurance covers the cost of wigs for women.

"In contrast to women, the involuntary loss of hair among men is common and accepted as nothing out of the ordinary," the court ruled, rejecting the suit from the man who said he suffered because of his baldness.

He filed the suit when the state health insurance system refused his claim for a $530 toupee.

In America some companies insurance pays for men's Viagra, but not women who use birth control pills...