NEW YORK - A man accused of biting the head off his pet rooster was arrested Friday and faces up to a year in prison if convicted, an animal protection spokesman said. A neighbor had complained about a dead rooster near his Manhattan apartment and agents found the body of the beheaded rooster on a fire escape... Humberto Rodriguez, 52, told agents that he bit the rooster's head off because he blamed it for injuring a pet pigeon that he also kept in the apartment, Pentangelo said. Rodriguez is charged with animal cruelty and could face up to a year in prison if convicted.

CANDOR, N.Y. -- A man who police claim called 911 because he wanted to see a "hot chick" is cooling his heels in the county jail. Authorities said Tyler Engelhard, 21, told a dispatcher his parents 'should be in jail' and that police would 'find out why.'

A sheriff's patrol rushed to Engelhard's Candor home, believing a crime might be imminent. When deputies arrived, the man claimed he had called as a joke and "wanted to see a hot chick."

The deputies weren't amused. Engelhard was charged with falsely reporting an incident and sent to the Tioga County Jail.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A New Zealand policewoman has been censured for some unauthorized "undercover" work — a stint moonlighting as a prostitute — but is being allowed to keep her day job after giving up the night duties.

While prostitution is legal in New Zealand and police are allowed to take approved second jobs, a top officer said sex work and police work don't mix.

The policewoman had worked for a limited time as a prostitute in the northern city of Auckland before her clandestine activity was uncovered, police said. Her name and rank have not been made public.

SYDNEY, Australia - A driver stranded on a remote stretch of Australian highway Wednesday tried to summon help by playing dead in the middle of the road, a police officer said. A woman who was driving with her two children spotted the man and had to swerve to avoid hitting him, said Doug Backhouse, a detective with the Western Australia state police. "She drove around the body - which didn't move at all - and got to the nearest phone," Backhouse said. Local police arrived with an ambulance and found the man alive and well, but with car troubles... Police said they told the man that lying in the road was "a stupid thing to do," but didn't charge him with any offense.

DENVER - Beer baron Peter Coors' driver's license has been revoked by a hearing officer who ruled the executive had been driving under the influence of alcohol, officials said... Coors, 59, said he had consumed a beer about 30 minutes before leaving a wedding... "I made a mistake. I should have planned ahead for a ride," Coors said in a statement... In one breath test, he registered a blood alcohol level of 0.073 percent. In a second, 20 minutes later, he registered 0.088. In Colorado a blood alcohol count of 0.05 results in a driving while impaired charge, while a count of 0.08 results in driving under the influence.

PITTSBURGH - An 80-year-old man who pleaded guilty to drug charges sold crack cocaine from his house and gave some of the drugs to prostitutes in exchange for sex, his lawyer said... Officers seized crack cocaine, a digital scale and packaging materials, police said... "I was trying to stay alive, your honor - pay my bills," Cocco told the Allegheny County judge. Cocco's lawyer, Martha Bailor, told the court that Cocco wanted to remain sexually active after his wife died three years ago and turned to prostitutes. "He decided it's cheaper to pay for sex with crack than cash," she said.

ISTANBUL, Turkey - Chaos broke out at a shoe sale in Turkey this week, and one person got shot in the foot, a news agency reported. The incident Friday occurred in Karabuk, a city about 125 miles north of Ankara, after people overloaded a two-story retailer that was selling pairs of shoes for as little as $6... When customers rebelled against orders to close the store because of overcrowding and started to fight with one another and with salespeople, a store employee shot his gun into the air... The bullet struck the foot of a customer, who was taken to a hospital, while the shooter was taken into police custody, the agency reported.

MULTAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - Fateh Mohammad, a prison inmate in Pakistan, says he woke up last weekend with a glass lightbulb in his anus. Wednesday night, doctors brought Mohammad's misery to an end after a one-and-a-half hour operation to remove the object... Mohammad, who is serving a four-year sentence for making liquor, prohibited for Muslims, said he was shocked when he was first told the cause of his discomfort. He swears he didn't know the bulb was there... The doctor treating Mohammad said he'd never encountered anything like it before, and doubted the felon's story that someone had drugged him and inserted the bulb while he was comatose.