FORT WAYNE, Ind. - An industrious teenager is hoping time is money.\nEighteen-year-old Evan Kelso is offering to change every digital clock in a customer's home or car after all of Indiana goes to daylight saving time this weekend for the first time in more than 30 years. His fee: $10.\nKelso, a senior at Bishop Luers High School, said he came up with the idea as Indiana lawmakers sniped about time zones and daylight-saving time. He said he and his father are always trying to think up new ways to make a little extra cash.\n"I just kind of sat there and thought, `We got to capitalize on this,'" Kelso said.\nHis offer includes changing the time on microwaves, ovens, answering machines, cars, computers, watches and VCRs. For an extra $1, he'll also install new batteries.\nKelso expects the time-change predicament to affect senior citizens the most. He plans to work from Sunday into next week -- which is his spring break from school.\nThe biggest challenge is changing VCRS.\n"There are so many makes and models. God knows, they are impossible to do anyway," Kelso said.\n
Man who's eaten 21,249 Big Macs gaining celebrity status
\nFOND DU LAC, Wis. -- The record-setting consumer of Big Mac sandwiches couldn't stump a television panel on the new "I've Got A Secret" show, but Don Gorske says he got a surprise on his trip to the West Coast for the taping.\nThanks to his cameo appearance in the 2004 documentary film, "Supersize Me," that was highly critical of the fast food culture, he ran into autograph-seekers at the airport in Los Angeles, and teens used their camera phones to take his picture.\n"I couldn't believe how many people recognized me," he said.\nThe Fond du Lac man earned a spot in Guinness World Records in March 2003 when the number of McDonald's Big Mac sandwiches he had eaten hit 19,000. He kept records showing he ate one or two every day since 1972.\nHis record is still growing. When interviewed by The Reporter of Fond du Lac about his trip, he downed No. 21,249.\nThe 6-foot Gorske has kept his weight at 180 pounds despite his diet.\nThe episode of "I've Got A Secret," a revival of a classic game show from the 1950s and 1960s, is expected to air in early May on the Game Show Network.\nAt Monday's taping, Gorske said each of four panelists had 40 seconds to try to uncover his secret, and the final panelist hit the target with a question about fast food, followed by one with the magic word -- McDonald's.\n"Then the crowd started to cheer, and he guessed it in time," Gorske said.\nHe returned home Tuesday $1,000 richer.\n
500-pound salad commemorates 500 lost pounds
\nGARY, W.Va. - What better "weigh" to mark the loss of 500 pounds than a 500-pound salad.\nThe massive salad contained 110 heads of lettuce, 165 pounds of carrots and about 120 cucumbers, and was prepared in a swimming pool.\nIt took about 2 1/2 hours to prepare and a hungry crowd gobbled it up in about four hours Thursday, said Cheryl Mitchem, coordinator of the weight management program through the Tug River Health Association.\nMitchem said the salad represented the total pounds lost by about 27 people over a five month period that ended March 1.\n"I think it is a phenomenal accomplishment," Mitchem said.\n
Crook caught after turning into drive-through
\nABILENE, Texas -- A police chase of a suspected carjacker ended abruptly when the suspect took a wrong turn: into a Burger King drive-through.\nAbilene Officer Ralph Garcia said he spotted a vehicle that was reported carjacked in Dallas on Wednesday and started following it. The car sped away on Interstate 10, got off the highway and then got stuck in the drive-through.\nNo one was injured during the chase.\nTwo people in the car were arrested and jailed on multiple charges.\n
Cat found in home's wall
\nCOLLIERVILLE, Tenn. -- Heard of "The Cat in the Hat"? This is a story about a cat in a wall.\nThe cat was stuck in a wall at a house under construction and caught the attention of a prospective buyer last weekend by meowing and waving his paw out a small hole. Collierville Animal Services was summoned and supervisor Nina Wingfield said she heard a "very hoarse, frantic meow" after she arrived at the house.\nThe cat had found a gap between a gas pipe and the wall board where he could stick out his paw. Wingfield freed the cat by cutting away the wall board with a knife.\n"He had his paw out touching -- not clawing -- the whole time, like he was saying 'Come on! Come on,'" Wingfield said.\nShe thinks the cat, who had been stuck without food long enough for his ribs to be showing, is a lost pet. He'll be offered for adoption if no one claims him.\nIn the meantime, the animal shelter is calling him by a new name: Wally.\n
Man crashes when pet snake attacks
\nNAPLES, Fla. -- A man crashed his car after a pet snake he had wrapped around his neck began attacking him, authorities said.\nWitnesses reported seeing Courtland Page Johnson, 30, of East Naples, driving erratically before he crashed his PT Cruiser into several barricades at about 9 p.m. Tuesday. He got out of his car, wrestled with the snake and then drove off, reports said.\nWhen authorities caught up with Johnson at his home, he told them he crashed into another car that had stopped short in front of him. After questioning, Johnson admitted he panicked when his snake bit him.\nHe had cuts and freshly dried blood on his body, but did not need medical attention, reports said.\nJohnson was charged with leaving the scene of a crash.
