Odd briefs 15A

Madison's watered-down beer quota allows 4 kegs

MADISON, Wis. -- Police set a beer quota on an annual spring block party that draws thousands of drunken revelers, but Saturday's partiers weren't exactly tapped out: The limit was four kegs per household. The keg crackdown for the annual Mifflin Street block party near the University of Wisconsin still gives each apartment between 700 and 800 beers. Dan Hudson, a 25-year-old senior, said a reasonable cap would have been "at least 10." John Lucas, a university spokesman, said four kegs amount to an "ungodly number of pitchers," but praised the new policy. "We want people to have fun and enjoy student traditions," he said, "but it's kind of frightening."

DEA agent shoots self in gun safety class

ORLANDO, Fla. -- A federal drug agent shot himself in the leg during a gun safety presentation to children in what police describe as an accident. His bosses, however, are still investigating the incident. The Drug Enforcement Administration agent, whose name was not released, was speaking to a group April 9. He drew his .40-caliber duty weapon and removed the magazine, according to the police report. He then pulled back the slide and asked an audience member to look inside the gun and confirm it wasn't loaded. Witnesses said when the agent released the slide, one shot fired into the top of his left thigh. The gun was pointed at the floor. The agent was treated at Orlando Regional Medical Center and returned to work, a DEA official said.

-- From wire reports

Man dons ex's wedding gown for auction

SEATTLE -- Larry Star didn't find wedded bliss with his bride, but he did find fame and a modest fortune by donning his ex's gown. The tattooed, barrel-chested Star hoped to woo buyers by slipping into the sleeveless white frock in a series of photos for the online auction site, eBay. He was just hoping to scrape together enough cash for some beer and baseball tickets. He now has enough for champagne and club seats, after the winning bid of $3,850 was announced Wednesday. The 42-year-old "computer geek by day, guitar player by night," has garnered national attention for his ad for the dress he describes as "a $1,200 shower curtain," and says he's received five marriage proposals.

-- From wire reports

Not that he plans on getting remarried any time soon.

"For my next wedding, I will be wearing a hairy, flesh-toned ensemble, because I will be buck naked with a toe tag lying on a slab in the morgue, because I would have killed myself," the New York City native writes on the site.

He says he spent five miserable years married to a woman with "Texas cheerleader hair" whose "drunken sot of an ex-father-in-law" never paid him back for the dress.