A man threw a bucket of red dye into Rome's Trevi fountain in front of astonished crowds Friday. The fountain, which normally runs on a closed cycle, was left gushing red water. It was briefly shutdown in order for technicians to restore normal clear water flow.

Dennis Saunders, a convicted peeping tom, is demanding that police return some 500 pornographic movies and 250 magazines his lawyer described as unrelated to the case and is otherwise legal material. In March this year, Saunders, 59, filed suit against the San Rafael Police Department in Marin County Superior Court after they refused to return his massive porn collection. He is not seeking the peeping tom videos he recorded.

Each time a new Harry Potter book or movie is released, a 78-year-old man from Bradenton, Florida is inundated with interview request calls because he happens to share the same name with J. K. Rowling's fictional character. The retired Defense Department employee from Zaleski, Ohio, doesn't seem to be a fan of the boy wizard, as he hasn't had time to read any of the J. K. Rowling books or see the five hit movies. Potter, who often gets interview requests from the TV networks and autograph requests, says he has not been able to keep his phone off the hook since past few weeks. His wife Jan often jokes with the late night crank callers telling them he (Potter) is "busy, out flying. "

School district officials were left stunned when $250 worth of pay-by-view adult entertainment showed up on a February Cablevision bill. Authorities are now investigating who might have watched the pornographic movies at a school cable television box after business hours. One of the five cable boxes in the Board of Education building was used to order the films, which are priced between $4. 95 and $9. 95.

A 20-year-old drunk man ended up in the hospital with second degree burns after he unsuccessfully tried to do a stunt from one of the "Jackass" movies, in which a character lights his genitals on fire. Jared W. Anderson of Bloomer asked his friend Randell D. Peterson, 43, to sprayed lighter fluid on him and lit him on fire. Peterson was charged with felony battery and first-degree reckless endangerment Tuesday in Eau Claire County Court. According to police records, when the fire didn't catch, Peterson sprayed lighter fluid on Anderson's genitals, which splashed on his clothing.