A 21-year-old man wolfed down 4. 8 pounds of turkey in 12 minutes at an annual turkey-eating contest Wednesday, beating out the 2nd-place winner by a full pound. Now Patrick Bertoletti says he doesn't want to eat any turkey on Thanksgiving and that he's going to dine on venison instead. Bertoletti, a 190-pound culinary student from Chicago, said he devoured the turkey breast first.

A Pennsylvania man angry with the results of a penile enlargement surgery tried to get revenge on his surgeon by mailing him a bomb. Blake Steidler of Reamstown pleaded guilty to the use of a weapon of mass destruction and other charges in April, 2005. According to court documents, Steidler, 26, underwent went penile enhancement surgery at a Chicago clinic in January 2004. Steidler said he experienced complications from the surgery and asked the surgeon for a refund. But when the surgeon denied, Steidler mailed the bomb.

A 26-year-old man set a new Guinness World Record by making the largest rubber ball ever from more than 175,000 rubber bands. It weighs 4,594-pounds and stands 5 1/2 feet high and 19 feet round. "The rubber bands . . . sometimes they'll break. That hurts," said Steve Milton. "As long as you wear your safety goggles, you're good. "

Bones discovered 50 years ago have been identified as a previously unknown dwarf water buffalo. The creature weighed 350 pounds and stood two-and-one-half feet tall as opposed to a regular water buffalo that weighs about 2,000 pounds and stands six feet tall. The bones were discovered on the Philippine island Cebu by a mining engineer who was excavating and looking for phosphates 50 years ago. Recently, one of his friends, Dr. Hamilcar Intengan, Chicago, recognized that the bones were important and donated them to the Field Museum there.

Devoted baseball fans will have the ability to have their cremated ashes placed in urns that sport the logo of their favorite franchise as soon as next season, sources report. Major League Baseball and a leading maker of funeral products are to begin working together to promote a new line of MLB urns, promising to take the seventh-inning stretch into eternity for those interested in the product. Next season, fans of the New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox, Detroit Tigers, Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago Cubs, and Los Angeles Dodgers, will be able to purchase urns bearing their teams colors and insignia.