Mid-Daily Items: Daughter replacing mom at rodeo

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December 1, 2009

Anonymous The Daily Item Tue Dec 01, 2009, 03:54 PM EST

Eight times, Jordon Peterson watched her mom, Kristie, compete in the National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas. On Thursday, the second Peterson generation will hit the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas dirt as the 51st NFR starts its annual 10-day run to crown the season's champions. This year, it's Mom, the four-time world champion, in the stands. "I just remember Las Vegas was a blast, and the coolest town to have a rodeo in," Jordon, 21 to The Gazette. "I'm excited to be able to go and do it myself and even more excited to know my parents will be watching, too." For now, every run the younger Peterson makes links her with history, and while she can, she soaks it up.

Audrey McKnight, 77, got more than she bargained for while she waited for an oil change in a Polk County car dealership in Clive, Iowa. She filed a lawsuit claiming the auto dealership pressured her to buy a new car while she was waiting for the service to be completed on her 2006 car. McKnight claims she was adamant she couldn't afford a new car but finally gave up after being pressured for hours. Dealership owner Max Holmes disputes those claims and says his lawyers will respond in court. He said his lawyers are trying to resolve the situation. McKnight made her claim under a new state consumer fraud law that makes such suits easier to file.

An uninvited guest literally crashed a private football party in Ohio on Sunday. Jeff Berger said he had to do some running of his own while watching football on TV when a deer came crashing in through a window. Berger said he managed to get out of the way when the animal charged at him inside his fiancee's house in Lima in northwest Ohio. The deer jumped on the living room sofa Berger had been lying on. The deer, which authorities said appeared to be a doe, had smashed through a patio window making a noise that Berger said led him to fear someone was trying to break in to kill him and fiancee Marianne Tate. Neither was injured. Police officers arrived and chased the deer from behind the couch and out the front door. It was last seen going into nearby woods.

If you want to rob a bank, you probably should know what time it closes. Maybe the bank robber needed the money to buy a watch. It would seem he needed one after arriving six minutes after the Guardian Credit Union in Waukesha closed. Police said a man wearing a ski mask entered the first set of doors at 5:36 p.m. Wednesday with a gun, apparently not realizing the bank was closed. The second set of doors was locked and police were called but the man left before they arrived. Waukesha Police Sgt. Jerry Habanek told The Freeman in Waukesha, Wis., that police are reviewing security tapes and investigating. He said the robber could have planned poorly or possibly had another reason, like getting tied up in traffic.

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