Woman attacks window with ice cream, wins

Freeze!

Woman attacks window with ice cream, wins

Jamie Cahill was given a suspended sentence after pleading guilty to her little outburst at a gas station in Portsmouth, N.H., in September 2007. That night, Cahill went to the station's convenience store and tried to buy beer, but the clerk refused to sell it to her. So she bought a pint of ice cream. Once outside, she threw the ice cream at the plate glass window. And it went through. Police did not say what flavor ice cream can get through a plate glass window. The Portsmouth (N.H.) Herald reports that the trial was delayed while Cahill was in rehab, where her probation officer said she is "doing excellent."

Emergency!

Good Friday service goes a little wild

In case of emergency in the Philadelphia area, you will be instructed of a very special deal you can get on Girls Gone Wild DVDs. Comcast cable subscribers in Philadelphia who were up to watch Good Friday services from the Vatican found the telecast interrupted by the ad, which wouldn't normally go after the Good Friday service-watching demographic. Apparently what happens is that the emergency test automatically tunes viewers in to preselected channels. Just so happened that when the test switch happened ... Girls Gone Wild. The cable company only received one complaint.

Whoops

Burglar puts stuff back, then leaves

A man in Pelham, N.H., caught a burglar red-handed in his driveway. When the man got home to find the burglar absconding with jewelry and electronics, the burglar apologized and began putting the items back. Then he took off before police could arrive. They're still looking for him.

College research

Magic chocolate has no calories

A Harvard professor, making an early run at a Nobel prize, has invented a chocolate inhaler which allows people to taste the chocolate without taking on any calories. "It fills your mouth with almost pure chocolate. It tastes really good," professor David Edwards said of the product he and his students call Le Whif. "It's zero calorie, so could also be used as a diet tool. But chocolate is only the beginning. We're going to be unveiling more different types of food in the future." He expects to have Le Whif on store shelves by the end of the month.

Poll: Pretty words pretty, ugly are ugly

Groundbreaking vocabulary research at Mississippi State University has determined that "eloquent" is a beautiful word. When classics professor Robert Wolverton asked students in his annual survey to list beautiful and ugly words, eloquent was a favorable choice for six of the 75 students that responded. A total of 148 words were deemed beautiful, including "love" (four votes), "symphony" (four) and, strangely enough, "beautiful" (three votes). "Vomit" got six votes for ugly, followed by "puke" (five), "moist" (five) and "ugly" (four, possibly some of the same people who said "beautiful" was beautiful).

Compiled from Times wire services and other sources by staff writer Jim Webster, who can be reached at jwebster@sptimes.com.