Following is a summary of current odd news briefs.
Shooting zombies is the fad among gun enthusiasts
ST. LOUIS (Reuters) – One of Patrick Flanagan’s favorite
movies as a kid was ”Night of the Living Dead,” a 1968 horror
film about a family trapped in a rural Pennsylvania house and
attacked by zombies. ”I really dug zombie stuff since then,”
said Flanagan, 23, an unemployed concrete worker from Alton, in
southern Illinois.
El Salvador heralds 1st murder-free day in nearly three
years
SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) – No one was murdered in El Salvador
on Saturday, officials said, in what was the first
homicide-free day in nearly three years for the Central
American country plagued by violent drug gangs. ”After years
when the number of murders reached alarming levels of up to 18
per day, we saw not one homicide in the country,” President
Mauricio Funes said in a statement released on Sunday. The
murder-free day was the first recorded since leftist Funes took
office in June 2009.
Mayor of Newark, N.J., carries woman from burning home
NEWARK (Reuters) – The mayor of the struggling New Jersey
city of Newark said on Friday he was no super hero, only a good
neighbor when he broke free from his security detail in a
burning house and rescued a woman. Cory Booker arrived at his
Newark home on Thursday night to find his next-door neighbor’s
house ablaze. His neighbor said her middle-aged daughter was
trapped upstairs and begged for help.
