FED: Oddities of the week

AAP General News (Australia)
08-29-2008
FED: Oddities of the week

SYDNEY, Aug 29 AAP - Oddities of the week:



+ American documentary makers are set to descend on the Northern Territory to investigate
a spate of UFO sightings.

The History Channel plans to send its team of experts Down Under to shoot an episode
of the cable television series UFO Hunters.

The show plans to contact Territorians who have seen or taken pictures of strange objects
flying through our skies. One of its subjects will be Alan Ferguson, who photographed
a disk-shaped object flying near his home in Acacia Hills last month.

Mr Ferguson said he is keen to show the UFO Hunters what he had seen.

"If I can spot (the UFOs) I will point them out to them," he said.

"They don't know what I know - I know too much."



+ In an effort to break a stereotype, an Italian priest will run a pageant in the hope
of finding his country's most beautiful nun.

"Nuns are above all women and beauty is a gift from God," priest Antonio Rungi of the
southern Italian diocese of Modragone told the daily Corriere della Sera newspaper.

"This contest will be a way to show there isn't just the beauty we see on television
but also a more discrete charm."

Nuns wishing to participate in the contest are being urged to send their picture to
Rungi, who will publish it on his blog. Internet surfers can then vote for their favourite
nun online.



+ Bosnian police have impounded a pigeon after discovering prisoners used it to smuggle
drugs into one of the country's highest security jails, an official said.

"The guards suspected the bird might be involved in drug smuggling once they noticed
four prisoners visibly intoxicated shortly after the pigeon landed on a prison window,"

Zenica prison official Josip Pojavnik said.

The drugs, he added, had probably been stuffed into tiny bags attached to the legs
of the carrier pigeon, which one of the prisoners had previously been allowed to keep
as a pet in his cell.

"We suspect that the pigeon carried the drugs from Tuzla," a town around 70km north-east
of Zenica in central Bosnia, he said.

The pigeon was taken into custody by police, who have launched an investigation aimed
at identifying those who had loaded it up with the drugs.

"We do not know what to do with the pigeon, but for the time being it will remain behind
bars," Pojavnik said.



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