Royal hair: Jam made from Princess Di’s hair

LONDON (AP) — The royal hair? Jam made from one of Princess Diana’s hairs has been selling strong at an art exhibition in London.

Sam Bompas, who founded catering company Bompas and Parr, says a piece of the late princess’ hair has been infused with gin, then combined with milk and sugar to make the preserve, which tastes like condensed milk.

Bompas says he bought the hair off eBay for $10 from a U.S. dealer who collects celebrity hair.

He said Sunday that the product, called “occult jam,” aims to provoke people into thinking about food marketing and what they eat.

The jam is an exhibit at a surrealist art show at the Barbican Art Gallery and in the first week 500 of the 5-pound ($7.60) jars have been sold.

Husband, wife win at pit spitting in SW Michigan

EAU CLAIRE, Mich. (AP) — A husband and wife took top honors for the second straight year at the annual cherry pit spitting competition in southwestern Michigan.

Rick “Pellet Gun” Krause, of Tuba City, Ariz., spit a pit 51 feet, 3 inches Saturday for his 16th win at the International Cherry Pit Spitting Championship. Organizers say Krause entered on a motorcycle, dropped to his knees in the spitter’s box and ejected the winning pit.

His wife, Marlene, took first place in the women’s contest, spitting a pit 34 feet, 6 inches. It was her seventh win.

The Tree-Mendus Fruit Farm, just north of the Indiana border, hosts the event. Orchard owner Herb Teichman launched the competition as a lark 37 years ago, but it now attracts competitors from the U.S. and beyond.

Mass. school janitor finds 3-foot python in locker

NEWTON, Mass. (AP) — A custodian cleaning out lockers at a Massachusetts high school was so shocked when a 3-foot-long snake fell at his feet that he didn’t even think it was real.

Ed Reardon tells The Daily News Tribune that at first he thought it was a change purse. Then he thought it was a rubber snake. Then it coiled into attack mode.

Reardon didn’t panic. He grabbed it behind the head as he had seen on nature TV shows. When he got off work at Newton North High School, he brought it to a local pet store, where workers identified it as a ball python.

Reardon thinks a student left the snake in the locker as a prank.