WELLINGTON (AFP) – New Zealand police are getting hot under the collar over emergency calls including a woman whose husband didn’t spray air freshener after using the toilet and another complaining of pressure to attend a family wedding.

The Dominion Post newspaper reported Saturday that police in the North Island town of Wairoa responded to an emergency call from a 51-year-old woman who hung up after police answered the phone.

When police arrived at her house, she complained her husband had forgotten to spray the toilet with air freshener after a visit, police said.

The police restored harmony in the household and did not lay charges over the call.

“It’s pathetic really, someone dialling 111 (the emergency number) for something like that,” Wairoa polce sergeant Aubrey Ormond said.

A day earlier police in the southern city of Christchurch responded to an emergency call from a woman who demanded police help to get her sister-in-law off her back.

She said the sister-in-law was pressuring her to attend a family wedding.

Animal expert plans 10-day stay with snakes

LAS VEGAS (AP) – An expert in deadly animals is planning to stay for 10 days inside a box full of snakes at a Las Vegas Strip casino as part of a reality television show.

Donald Schultz will enter the clear glass box outside O’Sheas Casino on Sunday, starting with 50 snakes inside. Plans call for five new snakes to be added to the box each day until there are 100 snakes — including cobras, pythons and rattlesnakes.

The stunt will be filmed for Animal Planet’s “Wild Recon” series.

Elderly couple wed where they met on rainy day

MIAMI (AFP) – If supermarkets be the food of love, then Fina Nikolos and Jack Frankel have Whole Foods Market in Coral Springs, Florida to thank. That’s where they met on a rainy day in May, and that’s where they married.

Nikolos, 67, and Frankel, 75, wed in the supermarket’s cafeteria before friends and family and a bemused group of employees and customers, the Sun-Sentinel reported.

The elderly couple decided to tie the knot in the same place where they first laid eyes on each other, when Nikolos offered Frankel a lift in her car as he was waiting, bag in hand, for the rain to stop at the supermarket entrance.

Briton breaks world treadmill record

LONDON (AFP) – A former British army soldier on Saturday stormed into the record books by breaking the world treadmill record after seven gruelling days on the run.

Mike Buss, 35, from Swindon, outside London, clocked up 517.25 miles (832.4 kilometers) breaking the previous record of 468 miles (753 kilometers) in his week-long attempt.

The former army physical training instructor had been running up to three marathons a day on a treadmill in Swindon’s Brunel Shopping Center, sleeping two hours per day.

He is raising money for a charity which helps injured British service personnel.

“I was always looking at hitting the 500 mark so to go 17 miles further is brilliant,” he said.

“I’ve lost two toenails, my legs are aching and the arches of my feet are painful after hitting the treadmill for more than 20 hours a day but I feel good.

“I’m going home to have a bath, then have beef stew for dinner and chill out,” he said.

London cops using anti-riot shields as makeshift sleds

LONDON (AP) – Some British bobbies (policemen) have been reprimanded after they used their riot shields as makeshift sleds during the country’s cold snap.

A passer-by filmed the bobbies goofing around on a snowy hill in Oxford and posted the clip on YouTube.

It shows a policeman barreling downhill while another shouts, “Whatever happens, keep smiling!” Rick Latham, who filmed the scene on Tuesday, said he was pleasantly surprised by the officers’ actions.

He thought they were going to scold him for trying to slide down the hill in a kayak.