If you've ever thought that your backyard would be just perfect for raising your own chickens (and who hasn't), Carpentersville, Illinois says come on over!
It had to be one of the stranger calls ever fielded by the Baraboo, Wisconsin Police Department, but as law enforcement officers quickly determined, the person who phoned in to tell them that a large elephant was in her backyard eating marigolds wasn't kidding.
Ah, the slip and slide of my youth. It was far more than a piece of vinyl staked down in the backyard with a garden hose spraying on it. It was educational. Really. It taught us planning skills, as we learned it was a bad plan to put it down on a lawn really close to a wooden fence...