A gold coin worth more than $9,000 was stolen from a Vero Beach store, but quickly reappeared after it was sold for $167, TCPalm reports. The thief obviously didn’t know how much the coin was worth, but neither did the antique dealer who bought it. That dealer took it back to the coin store for appraisal. Until then, the coin store owner didn’t know it had been stolen. The guy who sold the coin to the antique dealer has been arrested.

A Jensen Beach man who said his cat downloaded child pornography onto his home computer gave up that defense and pleaded no contest, TCPalm reports. Keith Griffin, 49, was sentenced to more than a dozen years in prison on 100 counts of possessing child porn. Initially, he said the cat would jump on his keyboard while he was away.

Bomb squad blows up stuffed pony

An Orange County grade school was on a “modified lockdown” while the sheriff’s office investigated and then exploded a “suspicious device” that was found near the school, OrlandoSentinel.com reports. After blowing it up, officials deemed the toy stuffed pony “nonthreatening.”

It only bit like a piranha

If you think Florida has too much imported wildlife, you might be glad to hear that a fisherman in Deltona thought he hooked a piranha but really got only a poor cousin. The wildlife commission determined it was merely a pacu, which isn’t a native but is relatively common in Florida (at least when measured against the piranha), wftv.com reports. Tom Cornell said he reeled in the 14-inch fish with a piece of snake as bait. He said it nipped his finger when he caught it and nipped him again an hour later. “I said, ‘I can’t believe this thing is still alive,’ ” he told the TV website.

Race won't be politically correct

Sponsors of the 24 Horas de Cuba del Norte (24 Hours of Cuba of the North) race make no pretense of political correctness, but some Cuban-Americans still are upset that the race uses an image of Che Guevara in the race logo, PalmBeachPost.com reports.That doesn’t faze organizers of the event, which pits drivers in a 24-hour endurance race using cars them must buy and repair (and disguise as Halloween parade floats) for $500 or less. They intend to keep using Guevara’s image.Some of the other 24 Hours of LeMons racing circuit’s races are the Can’t Get Bayou (New Orleans), the Capitol Offense 500 (Washington, D.C.) and the Rod Blagojevich Never-Say-Die 500 (Chicago).

911 calls: missing liquor, attacking cat

The first few times, dispatchers told him to quit calling, but they finally sent deputies out to arrest a Pompano Beach man who said someone stole his liquor, SunSentinel.com reports. Sound like authorities might be familiar with Ronald Ernest Jones, 60, since at his bond hearing a judge said, “It’s best you stop drinking.” Up in Fort Walton beach, deputies were more understanding when a man called that he had been attacked by a cat, nwfdailynews.com reports. Responding medics found a few bites on his leg but didn’t take him to a hospital.