In the North Idaho city of Sandpoint the police are telling residents to stop chasing the moose. During the past few weeks, the Sandpoint Police Department has received dozens of phone calls each day reporting moose inside city limits. Area residents have taken to chasing the moose. Police Chief Mark Lockwood said.

The towns residents are sharing the city with about three to five moose. It’s not all that uncommon for moose to come into areas with a lower elevation in the winter months as the snow is usually not as deep.

“When these animals roam into the city, they can become frightened and disoriented, making them more dangerous than if they were encountered in the wild,” Lockwood said.

One woman pushing a jogging stroller recently chased after a moose in an attempt to photograph it, with a pack of people close behind. If things don’t change, Lockwood said police may have to cite residents for “molesting wildlife.”

“Do not approach any moose, even if it seems quiet and gentle,” Lockwood said. “If approached repeatedly, even by the best-intentioned onlookers, it may become aggressive. Sooner or later Bullwinkle is going to stomp somebody.”

I thought all limo’s had tinted windows. I guess not …

A 33-year-old woman was detained by police in September after complaints by residents at a mobile home park in Michigan City, Ind., that she had been having sex in an untinted-windowed limousine on one of the park’s streets, in front of what grew to be a large crowd, mostly yelling at her for her indecency. If the people were so offended why did they stand around and crowd the car? Seems like they were voyeurs too. Don’t ya think?

At one point, according to police, the otherwise-occupied woman yelled back at the crowd defiantly that she was “doing adult business” and “I’ve got to do what I’ve got to do.” Business? This wasn’t a social exhibit?

I’m sure a few of us in the blogisphere have already figured this out but …

A study released earlier this week suggests that the United States could be rife with Internet addicts as clinically ill as alcoholics.

Researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine in Stanford, California, said that their telephone survey indicated that more than one in eight US residents showed at least one sign of “problematic Internet use.”

Most disturbing was the discovery that some people hid their Internet surfing, or went online to cure foul moods in ways that mirrored the way that alcoholics use booze, according to the study’s lead author, Elias Aboujaoude.

According to preliminary research, the typical Internet addict is a single, college-educated, white male in his 30s, who spends approximately 30 hours a week on non-essential computer use.

• What kind on internet user are you? Are you only on the internet for an hour or so each day, or perhaps even less?
• Do you use the internet while your spouse is out, before you spouse comes home from work, or after he or she has gone to bed at night? And does your spouse know that you are on the internet when he or she is not home or sleeping?
• Do you think that you are on the internet too much and that it might be becoming a problem?

Maybe we should start a group - Internetaholics Anonymous?

Yes, literally. Why does this story put songs like Paint it Black (substituting Pink for Black), or Lily the Pink in my head?

Residents of a depressed eastern Indian town are painting it pink in a bid to boost morale and cut crime. Can you imagine a whole city painted pink? I have a feeling that the will either drive the towns people nuts or cause more crime, but that’s just my personal opinion.

Aurangabad, in India’s Bihar state, was a hot bed of Maoist rebel activity, and suffered from killings, extortion, kidnapping, and inter-caste wars says Arvind Kumar Singh, a senior local government official. So instead of fighting the crime and catching the rebels they ordered several cans of paint. Uh huh.

“We are hoping that the color pink, which is soothing and pretty, will erase these blots from the past and make the town look attractive,” Singh said of the initiative, which kicked off in June. I thought the colour green was supposed to be a calming colour and that that was why it’s used in prisons and clinical therapy areas so often? I wonder which shade of pink they choose or if they used many different shades?

The prettier-in-pink concept came from the dominant Rajput community, who moved to Bihar from the western desert state of Rajasthan, whose capital, Jaipur, is known as the “pink city.” So they’re just copying another cities idea?

I wonder if their pets have to wear pink now too? This poor pup doesn’t look very happy in pink:

Do you think that changing the colour of a city will really work to lessen crime? Would you feel calmer surrounded by pink?

Talk to me.