The week's odd news: Fisherman finds bright orange lobster; his 2nd rarity - Iowa City Press Citizen
A Maine lobsterman has caught a rare bright orange lobster, the second time he’s pulled an odd-colored crustacean from state waters. Bill Coppersmith, of Windham, tells the Portland Press Herald that he was out on the Gulf of Maine on July 22 when he caught the orange lobster. Robert Bayer, executive director of The Lobster Institute at the University of Maine, says the odds of catching an orange lobster are one in several million. Coppersmith caught a white lobster in 1997, a one-in-100 million catch. A cyclist started a 73-acre wildfire in southwest Idaho by lighting his toilet paper on fire after taking a comfort break, authorities say. Bureau of Land Management officials say the cyclist stopped to defecate in a ravine in the Boise foothills on the afternoon of July 22. The man then lit the toilet paper on fire but lost control of the embers in the dry grass while trying to... Two thieves suspected of stealing an ATM machine from a business made it as far as the parking lot, but the machine fell out of the getaway van, Snohomish County authorities say. They believe two men backed up a white van to a business near Lynnwood at around 11 a. m. July 19, cut the cables to the ATM and loaded it into the van. Source: www.press-citizen.com
