Paul Hutton, 40, was pulled over by police as he drove an electric Barbie car, which moves slower than a mobility scooter, near his home in Essex. Mr Hutton, who has four children, admitted being a ‘complete twit’. Speaking after the hearing at Colchester magistrates court, he said: “You have to be a contortionist to [...]
LEXINGTON, Ky. — Drunk in a bar and can’t get out, who you gonna call? Police. That’s what Todd Fitzwater did in Lexington. WLEX-TV reported Fitzwater called 911 Thursday and said he’d gotten drunk and passed out at Todd’s Karaoke Bar the night before, awakened and had a few more — then couldn’t get out [...]
Eating turkey might make you sleepy, but most Americans are not napping on Thanksgiving, according to a recent survey. Instead, they are sleeping in the next morning and eluding Black Friday discounts. The telephone poll of 1,001 Americans found that 71 percent stay awake on the holiday despite turkey’s legendary soporific power while, curiously, more [...]
SEATTLE — An aspiring ninja learned the hard way that he isn’t able to jump a 5-foot fence. Seattle police said an officer checking out a report of an assault in the 600 block of 7th Avenue late Monday came across a man impaled on top of a metal fence, screaming for help. Firefighters pulled [...]
WELLINGTON, New Zealand – A beverage company has asked a team to drill through Antarctica’s ice for a lost cache of some vintage Scotch whiskey that has been on the rocks since a century ago. The drillers will be trying to reach two crates of McKinlay and Co. whiskey that were shipped to the Antarctic [...]
SHORELINE, Wash. – It was a bizarre set of events in the Shoreline area today, with two potential crime scenes. Shoreline Police say a woman driving a pickup truck ran into a rock retaining wall. Police say a man was thrown from the vehicle. He suffered serious head injuries; the woman was not injured. When [...]
April 21, 2010
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