Wanna win an election? Just drop out out the race
Want to get elected to City Council in Springdale, Ark.?
Don't spend a dime or give a speech; say you're too busy to campaign, then drop out of the race.
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Hey, it worked for Mike Overton.
“I didn't have time to do any campaigning and spent no money on campaigning,” the real estate salesman told The Associated Press last week.
Overton defeated Rex Bailey for the spot with 53 percent of the vote. Bailey, who captured 47 percent, said he raised more than $12,000.
“I ran as hard as I could,” Bailey said. “He beat me. I congratulated him.”
Overton withdrew from the race in October, saying he didn't have time to serve because of his business interests. However, the ballots were printed before that announcement.
Doctor gives birth, then proceeds to the polls
Dr. Andrea Shaer wanted to vote before she went to the delivery room to give birth to her third child, so she and her husband went first to their polling station at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center's fitness facility in Harrisburg, Pa.
But more than 100 people were already in line, so Shaer went to the delivery room, gave birth, and returned to vote on Nov. 2 just 30 minutes before the polls closed, The Associated Press reported.
“Knowing how close the race is in Pennsylvania and being a mom, with all the issues there, I just had to try” to vote, said Shaer, a nephrologist, or kidney doctor, at the medical center.
Man strips naked and tries to stowaway on flight
A man was charged with trespassing last week after he stripped naked, scaled an airport fence, ran across the tarmac and climbed into a plane's wheel well before firefighters talked him out, officials said.
The man had earlier tried to buy a ticket for a Qantas Airways flight to Australia with only a credit card receipt. He told authorities at Los Angeles International Airport that he stripped off his clothes Monday to protest the airline's decision to deny him the ticket, airport spokeswoman Nancy Castles said.
The man, Neil Melly, 31, of Canada, suffers from bipolar disorder, Castles said.
Baggage handlers saw the man climb an 8-foot barbed-wire fence that separates public and private areas of the airport, run to a departing plane as it backed from the gate and climb into the a wheel well.
Compiled from wire services.
