THURSDAY’S WEIRD NEWS: June 18,2009

Published 9:32 am Thursday, June 18, 2009

• Ohio county wants any profit from DUI bar stool

NEWARK, Ohio (AP) — If an Ohio man sells the motorized bar stool that got him arrested for drunken driving, a child support agency will get the money.

The Licking County Child Support Enforcement Agency filed a court petition after hearing an entertainment company was interested in buying Kile Wygle’s unusual vehicle. A judge agreed that if Wygle makes any profit from the stool, it should go toward back child support. Court records show he owes $37,000.

Wygle was charged with driving under the influence after he crashed his contraption in March. He pleaded guilty and spent three days in jail.

He calls the interest in his bar stool from child support officials “pretty goofy.” But he says they’re welcome to take it and sell it themselves.



• Fla. city to workers: Wear underwear, deodorant

BROOKSVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida city is cleaning up with a new dress code that requires city workers to wear underwear and use deodorant.

The city council in Brooksville north of Tampa recently approved a dress code that instructs employees to observe “strict personal hygiene.”

It also prohibits exposed underwear, clothing with foul language, “sexually provocative” clothes and piercings anywhere except the ears.

Repeat offenders can be fired.

The city council approved the dress code 4-1 as part of a wider effort to update existing policies and ordinances.

The one vote in opposition came from Mayor Joe Bernadini. He said the underwear edict “takes away freedom of choice.”