Joke House

Radio station KEZO in Omaha, Neb., started the on-air campaign as a joke, but Alex Captyne says he’s happy with the way it turned out. When the hosts of the Todd and Tyler Show read in the newspaper that Captyne was homeless and lived in an abandoned dog house, they started a fundraising drive on the show — to buy him a garden shed. Rather than laugh, listeners donated enough money for a wooden 8-by-8-foot insulated shack with a window and a locking door. Far from being upset, Captyne, 56, was grateful. “I’ve got a nice place now. Can you believe it?” (Omaha World Herald) ...What do you want to bet that city officials who ignored him living in a dog house will condemn his garden shed as “unfit for human habitation”?