A 46-year-old man from Albany, New York has been charged of lewd and lascivious conduct after he was seen riding nude in a ski lift at Stratton Mountain Resort. William N. Barrett III however has pleaded not guilty to all the charges in Vermont District Court saying he had taken off his jacket and shirt because of the nice weather.

In the first incident of its kind, a doctor skiing down the Haulback Trail at Sugarloaf, was hit by something very unusual - a deer. A whitetail deer attempting to cross the trail crossed paths with Dr. Ray Stone, while making a turn, resulting with both of them falling to the ground. Stone, a family practice doctor who lives in New Gloucester and works at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston said he was utterly confused last month after being knocked-off completely while skiing.

Accompanied by his dog, a 44-year-old man has embarked upon a journey that has included ridinghis lawn mower for the last two years. Paul Woods travels by day and sleeps in a tent at night and he plans to reach Virginia from Alaska at the speed of 15 mph. The Herald Journal of Logan quotes him as saying. "You've got to be pretty strange and pretty weird to be driving a tractor mower across country. " Recently he took a break in the parking lot of Beaver Mountain ski resort, 107 miles north of Salt Lake City, near the Idaho border.

Snowboarders in Romania blocked traffic when they converged on Romania's national weather institute to complain about the lack of snow which have hampered their snowboarding plans. The unusual sit down protest held in the Romanian capital city of Romania ended peacefully when weather forecasters assured their concerns "would be passed on to a higher authority. "

European men are rushing to Bulgaria to buy Boza beer, which is said to boost women's breasts, after Bulgaria's accession to the EU abolished prohibitive customs duties on the drink. The Bulgarian Boza beer, which is made from fermented wheat flour and yeast, has become popular among bar owners, shopkeepers and shoppers across Europe. The beverage is popular among men as gifts for their wives and girlfriends to benefit from its reported ability to make women's breast grow bigger.