http://www.komonews.com/news/offbeat RSS Feed for KOMO - News - Offbeat en-us Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:33:51 GMT http://www.komonews.com/news/offbeat/49928467.html "Cops & Doughnuts" is more than a punchline. It's now a bakery in Michigan - owned by nine full-time employees of the Clare Police Department. http://www.komonews.com/news/offbeat/49897617.html The Iron County sheriff's office said an inmate tried to escape from a correctional facility by fashioning a fake bomb. Sheriff's Deputy Aaron Pallesen said the 28-year-old inmate cornered an officer in a lobby while holding what looked like a silver device with a red detonator. http://www.komonews.com/news/offbeat/49884922.html In the fight of pachyderms vs. people - the pachyderms now have the upper trunk. Three circus elephants scored a decisive victory over three human competitive eaters at a cross-species eating contest Friday, chomping down on 505 hot dog buns in six minutes. http://www.komonews.com/news/offbeat/49875257.html New Zealand's national airline has adopted a cheeky way to encourage passengers to watch its in-flight safety video: The cabin crew's uniforms are nothing but body paint. http://www.komonews.com/news/offbeat/49875397.html Police in suburban Chicago say a taxi driver who didn't have Mace handy when he was attacked by a knife-wielding passenger instead disarmed the man with a can of aerosol deodorant. http://www.komonews.com/news/offbeat/49773432.html One of the NYPD's newest officers has made his first arrest just minutes after graduating from the Police Academy in a ceremony at Madison Square Garden. http://www.komonews.com/news/offbeat/49696647.html Firefighters were called to the house of an elderly woman early Thursday after she reported her television set was burning. They found the TV was tuned to a station that in the early morning hours aired the constant image of a fireplace. http://www.komonews.com/news/offbeat/49668622.html The cast and crew of the Broadway musical "Rock of Ages" and hundreds of inspired New Yorkers have broken the world record for the largest air guitar ensemble. http://www.komonews.com/news/offbeat/49658777.html A passenger stripped naked during a US Airways flight and resisted a flight attendant's efforts to cover him with a blanket before two off-duty law enforcement officers on board subdued and handcuffed him, authorities said Wednesday. http://www.komonews.com/news/offbeat/49620702.html State police in New York say two Pennsylvania men robbed a gas station and might have gotten away if they had also fueled up.