A life-sized Homer Simpson statue has been recovered and returned to the movie theater from which it was stolen, located in a popular suburban shopping mall near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia's largest city. "This case has been solved," Mazlan Mansor, police chief of Malaysia's central Petaling Jaya district, told the Associated Press. The culprits, tracked down by local police, were allegedly just overzealous fans of "The Simpsons. "

A street performer dressed as Chewbacca was arrested Thursday after butting a tour guide operator in the head in front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, according to police. The tour guide said the man in the Chewbacca costume exploded after he asked him to stop bothering two Japanese tourists. The man in the costume, 44-year-old Frederick Evan Young, is one of many street performers who flock to Grauman's Chinese Theater to entertain tourists. Last year the city passed an ordinance to prevent incidents like the one Young is involved in after tourists complained performers would get aggressive and abusive if they didn't pay for pictures.

Jennifer Wilbanks, the runaway bride who escaped her wedding in 2005 by making up a story about being kidnapped and raped, is having her story turned into a rock opera. Wilbanks later admitted she hopped on a bus to Mexico because she got cold feet and pleaded no contest to lying to police. The show, named the "Runaway Bride," has been called an "unauthorized rock opera. " According to the Atlanta-Journal Constitution, scriptwriter Jaime Heck said that neither Wilbanks' nor her then-fiancee's names are mentioned in the opera and that he has not spoken to either of them.

In a strange case of smuggling, two Buffalo men were caught smuggling by hiding four birds in a pocket and three in a fanny pack. U. S. Customs and Border Protection agents reportedly asked them to pay $1,000 in fines after they seized seven birds from two men as they re-entered the United States from Canada via Buffalo's Peace Bridge. According to AP reports, the custom officers became suspicious after the two men, identified as John Beale, 59, and Frank Salvini, 65, had gone to Canada Friday to buy 25 pounds of millet bird seed.

A Long Island teenager has reportedly set an example of honesty by returning $24,000 he found in untraceable $100 bills while at his job cleaning a movie theater. The college going student, Christopher Montgomery, 19, however does not consider it a "big deal" and was actually embarrassed at the attention.