Fecal Flood

“It was pig manure — the mother-of-all muck,” Rainer Prediger, a police officer from Elsa, Bavaria, said. Prediger was referring to the greenish-brown substance that had flooded Elsa. According to Reuters, a tank containing pig manure, to be used for fertilizer, burst open on Wednesday, spilling out 240,000 liters and covering the town nearly 20 inches deep.

Everyone’s space

Ball State University’s student newspaper reported Tuesday that the magazine Playboy will be searching for prospective college-aged models on the Web site Myspace.com. Playboy’s senior vice president of marketing, Michael Sprouse, explained that Playboy is trying to reach out to the college community. “We’re trying to bring the fun, hip, cool aspects of our brand to the membership base within MySpace and the Internet,” Sprouse said. “If we can do that in the form of casting and shooting pictorials, then that’s great.”

Sometimes you’ve just gotta go

Franklin Paul Crow, 56, of Moss Bluff, Fla., was charged in the beating death of his roommate, 58-year-old Kenneth Matthews, Reuters reported Wednesday. Crow confessed on Tuesday to striking Matthews with a sledgehammer and a claw hammer, during a fight the two had because they had run out of toilet paper.

Snout of the closet

“Willy is a 10-year-old, 187-pound hog and his new mate is a 16-year-old bongo [antelope] named Nicole,” the Associated Press reported Wednesday. Willy lost his original mate, another hog, last summer. Within a week he had latched on to the antelope, and since then the two have been inseparable. They often “nap and cuddle together — even nuzzling snout to nose.”

Instead of borrowing from someone

Captain Mike Babe of the Waukesha, Wis., police department said that the Department of Corrections Probation and Parole was broken into Tuesday evening. According to the Associated Press, when police arrived they found that urine samples that could have been used in drug and alcohol cases against people had been stolen.