I hope some of you can get a laugh from these:

Woman Enters Exhibit, Elephant Smacks Her
By Associated Press
Fri Mar 3, 5:00 PM
WACO, Texas - A 25-year-old woman climbed past barriers and into an elephant’s zoo exhibit, then crawled out with minor injuries after the 6,000-pound animal smacked her with its trunk.
“That’s how an elephant reacts to something they would perceive as a threat,” said Cameron Park Zoo director Jim Fleshman.
After saying she wanted to play with the elephant, the woman climbed over a 3-feet-high wood-and-wire fence, scaled an 8-foot-tall artificial rock structure and bypassed an electric wire before jumping into the exhibit Thursday afternoon, Fleshman said. A moat extends around most of the exhibit.
After the woman got out, fire and emergency crews took her to a hospital with minor injuries, including scrapes on her side and arm. Waco Fire Capt. Greg Kistler said the woman, whose name was not released, was visiting the zoo with a child and another woman.
The exhibit contains two female African elephants that have been at the zoo at least nine years. Only one of the elephants struck the woman.
Both animals were stressed after the incident and were moved to a private area for part of the afternoon, and one didn’t want to return to the exhibit even later in the day. But both were back for visitors to see Friday, Fleshman said.
“They’re not used to somebody being in their space,” he said.
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Ya think?
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Robber Beaten by Beauty Students Sentenced
By Associated Press
Fri Mar 3, 4:37 PM
SHREVEPORT, La. - It seemed like a good idea, but all robbing a beauty school got Jared Gipson was the beating of a lifetime and 25 years in prison.
When he tried to hold up Blalock’s Beauty College last June, the would-be victims attacked Gipson, pummeling him with curling irons, hair dryers, a table leg and their own fists. He had to be taken to the hospital and had 21 cuts stitched up.
But the same women who beat him later pleaded for mercy for Gipson, saying the more than 200 years he could have faced as a habitual offender was too much. Prosecutors agreed to drop that distinction, which reduced his maximum sentence to 104 years.
“They feel they inflicted some measure of justice themselves,” prosecutor Brady O’Callahan said.
Gipson, 25, received a 25-year sentence for armed robbery Friday. Caddo District Judge Scott Crichton said it was a more lenient sentence than he would have imposed had the victims themselves not asked him to go easy.
Gipson said a friend told him the women at Blalock’s would easy prey for a robbery.
“That was obviously some really, really bad advice,” Crichton told him.
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The man got his butt kicked by a bunch of girls. Bet he’s gonna be REAL popular in prison O_O
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Feisty Rooster Rules Punta Gorda City Hall
By The Associated Press
Fri Mar 3, 5:06 PM
PUNTA GORDA, Fla. - A rooster, believed to be an orphan of Hurricane Charley, now rules the roost at Punta Gorda city hall. The feisty copper-colored fowl has interrupted city meetings and prompted neighbors to call animal control after he woke them at 5 a.m.
But mostly he’s won the hearts of city employees.
“He’s our mascot,” city Clerk Sue Foster told the Sarasota Herald-Tribune for Friday’s editions. “My staff, we think he’s pretty cool.”
Animal control officers have tried to catch him, but he’s too quick. Mostly he hangs out in the flower beds outside city council chambers.
“He’s at the planning commission and canal maintenance. He’s everywhere,” said Harvey Goldberg, a candidate for city council.
On Wednesday, the rooster crowed loudly during a discussion of Punta Gorda’s new auditorium.
“At first, I thought it was a cat in heat,” Assistant City Manager Kathy Dailey said.
The rooster has been seen wandering the streets since Hurricane Charley in 2004 and started roosting outside city hall in October. The popular theory is that he was the pet of residents who left town after the storm.
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Never mind the rooster... the name of the town is enough to make ME wonder!!!!!