Weird News Roundup

The Associated Press reports on weird news from all around the world. Here are some from today:

Principal won't punish ninth-graders who hired male stripper

DES MOINES, Iowa - A Des Moines principal has decided not to punish the ninth-grade girls who arranged for a male stripper to perform at their high school's synchronized swimming club banquet.

Officials say the girls employed the stripper as a joke and that the stripper didn't totally disrobe at Friday evening's event at the Des Moines Social Club. A club employee interrupted the performance and asked the stripper to leave.

Roosevelt High School Principal Kevin Biggs said Wednesday that the girls didn't do anything illegal and didn't violate the district's conduct code.

The club has been operating outside of direct school supervision, with members raising all the money for its support. But Biggs says the district plans to place the club and its finances under the control of Roosevelt High's activities department.

Stinking drunk? Police say "inebriated" man used fart spray

Police in Georgia have arrested a man for allegedly causing a stink at a bar.

The Athens Banner-Herald (http://bit.ly/1Mx8avn) reports that a woman told officers Blake Leland Zengo, 20, of Bogart, sprayed her in the face with a product designed to smell like flatulence.

An Athens-Clarke County police report says several people left the bar Saturday, citing a foul smell inside, and then told police that Zengo was the culprit.

The police report described Zengo as "very inebriated" and said a bottle of spray designed to cause an offensive odor was found in his pants pocket. Zengo denied spraying anything.

He was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct, public intoxication and underage consumption of alcohol. He was released from jail on $1,500 bond.

It's unclear whether Zengo has an attorney.

Cops: Dad's stranger-danger test scares teens into 911 call

A suburban Cleveland man had a friend pose as a threatening ex-convict during a test to see whether his teenagers would let a stranger into their home, prompting them to flee and call 911, police said Friday.

A prosecutor will consider potential child-endangering charges against the adults.

Westlake police said the father "refused to acknowledge the emotional upset he had caused" and described his 14- and 16-year-old sons' actions as an "epic fail." But officers commended them for barricading themselves in a bedroom, jumping out a second-floor window onto a garage roof and then running to a neighbor's home to call for help.

The stranger showed up at their door Thursday afternoon and was let in by the younger teen, breaking the family rule on admitting only known relatives, police said. Once inside, the man told the boys that their father owed him money, and he threatened them.

"This guy was crazy. This guy wanted to kill us," the elder son told a dispatcher on the 911 call. "He said, 'If I start chopping up bodies in here, then I'm going to be the bad guy. I just got out of jail two weeks ago.'"

The fake convict, a 45-year-old man from Cleveland Heights, was in contact by phone with the father during the charade, and when the friend thought things had gone too far and wanted to stop, the father insisted it play out, police said.

One son said in the 911 call that he'd spotted his father's car parked in the street but didn't see him in it. The teen said he thought his father was around the house but wasn't certain, so their instinct was to run away.

101-year-old Florida woman gets second chance at prom

A 101-year-old Florida woman is getting a second chance at prom.

Eleanor Bessin says she attended her prom on a boat in Boston with a man she had been planning to marry. However, he went off to serve in World War II, and when he returned, he developed cancer and died. She still carries his picture.

Student government leaders from TERRA High School are setting up the dance for about 75 seniors at the Palace Nursing & Rehab. Nursing home staff will vote for a prom king and queen during Thursday's prom.

Resident Sadie Gilbert, 86, says she was never invited to her high school prom but will now get the chance to attend.