Reuters Oddly Enough: March 1, 2016

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TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 2016

Oregon city fires its grounds-keeping goats with 'barnyard aroma'

(Reuters) - A crew of goats brought in to devour invasive plants at a popular park in Oregon's state capital, Salem, have been fired because they ate indiscriminately, cost nearly five times as much as human landscapers and smelled far worse, a city official said on Friday.

Trap snaps shut on drug dealers who guarded cash with crocs

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A gang of suspected drug-dealers in Amsterdam gave the task of guarding their loot to unusually ferocious guards: a pair of fully-grown crocodiles.

Canadian banned from owning turtles after smuggling 38 in pants

TORONTO (Reuters) - A Canadian man who smuggled 38 turtles in his pants has been given probation, a fine and has been banned from owning such reptiles for 10 years.

Minnesota apologizes, revokes 'FMUSLMS' vanity license plate

(Reuters) - Minnesota officials seized a "FMUSLMS" license plate and apologized for issuing it at a driver's request, saying on Wednesday that approval procedures for so-called vanity plates were under review.

Mysterious high-pitched tone keeps Oregon residents up at night

PORTLAND, Ore. (Reuters) - An unexplained high-pitched tone has kept residents of a Portland suburb awake at night for at least a week, confounding the best efforts of police and firefighters to pinpoint its source, officials in the community said on Monday.

UK cathedral moves statue to avoid texting mishaps

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A British cathedral sought to reassure visitors on Monday that they could still view a massive sculpture following a Facebook post by the statue's creator saying the church had moved it because people kept bumping into it while texting.

Hungry mice thwart fix for Brussels' traffic chaos

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - As if the European Union does not have crises enough, now traffic chaos in its congested capital Brussels is being blamed on... hungry mice.

Egypt orders arrest of Facebook administrator after unfaithful wives comments

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's top prosecutor has ordered the arrest of a Facebook page administrator whose assertion on a popular television talk show that a third of married women in the conservative country are unfaithful caused a social media uproar.

Racy night with handcuffs lands Arkansas man in handcuffs, again

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Reuters) - An Arkansas couple's evening of "kinky" entertainment ended with one pair of handcuffs used for fun being replaced by another used for real in an arrest, police said on Friday.

Indian scientists express doubt over meteorite death attribution

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian scientists have expressed doubt that a man in the southern state of Tamil Nadu was the first person to have been confirmed killed by a meteorite strike, as the state's top official has declared.