People different from us

Officials in Apex, N.C., finally confiscated the 80 sheep that David Watts had long been keeping in his home as pets (he slept upstairs, they downstairs). The final straw came when some of the sheep wandered into the local cemetery and munched on fresh floral arrangements. The town had apparently tolerated Watts' eccentricity for years because of his pleasantness. Said a next-door neighbor, "(Officials) felt like he was (merely) living an alternative lifestyle."