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Police: Drunken driver called 911 on herself

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

Another potential Darwin nominee.  So you are drunk and driving and you know you shouldn’t be.  Do you (A) call the police on yourself and pull over to await the DUI, or (B) pull over and have a friend take you home and risk well… nothing and let it be a learning lesson.  Yep, it’s (A) give me the ticket!

EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Police in Michigan have released a copy of a 911 call where a suspected drunken driver chats with an emergency dispatcher for about 20 minutes before she is pulled over and arrested.

In the first moments of the March 13 call, the dispatcher asks: “Are you intoxicated?” and the woman replies: “Absolutely.” The dispatcher pleads with the woman to pull over and she tells him she “shouldn’t be driving.”

The dispatcher helped officers find the driver in East Lansing.

Police say the 27-year-old Charlotte resident placed the call at 5:40 a.m. The woman was issued a citation for operating while intoxicated and faces up to 90 days in jail. Her name hasn’t been released.

Police released the call Friday to The Associated Press under a Freedom of Information Act request.

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Man cites boredom after arrest on streaking charge

Monday, March 29th, 2010

Keep a many busy and he’ll be clothed for a lifetime, but let boredom set in and streaking is the only option?  WTH?  I am thinkin’ there be somethin’ wrong with this dude!

KINGSPORT, Tenn. (AP) — A man who has been charged with making a naked dash through a Tennessee supermarket told police he was “bored and didn’t have anything else to do.”

The Kingsport Times-News reports that a man entered an IGA store Friday night, wearing nothing but a face mask, and ran around the aisles.

A police report says officers found the suspect in the bathroom of a nearby Hardee’s restaurant. Employees say he entered the fast food outlet wearing nothing but an orange hooded sweat shirt and asked if anyone could lend him clothes. An employee gave him a pair of athletic shorts.

Kingsport police arrested 22-year-old Daniel R. Lee of Church Hill and have charged him with indecent exposure.

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Found: Lost Navy Helldiver Plane

Friday, March 26th, 2010

Loggers uncover World War II crash site

doc4bace8bb11a9930073437511 Found: Lost Navy Helldiver PlanePORTLAND — Loggers working near the Oregon coast discovered the wreckage of a World War II-era warplane in woods not far from a naval air station decommissioned in 1948, military and police officials said Thursday.

Investigators said human remains may be in the aircraft.

The origins of the Curtiss SB2C Helldiver, a U.S. Navy dive bomber, are a mystery. The crash site is not far from two naval air stations that were active during World War II.

“There are so many different air stations they could have been flying from,” said Christian Gurling, curator at the Tillamook Air Museum, site of the now-defunct Naval Air Station Tillamook.

A U.S. Navy team worked at the scene along with the Oregon State Police and the Tillamook County Sheriff’s Office. Also involved in the investigation is the Joint Prisoner of War/Missing In Action Accounting Command, a Hawaii-based military joint command that tries to account for Americans missing in action.

State police bomb technicians checked the site Wednesday afternoon and found no sign of unexploded ordnance.

A logging company discovered the wreckage on March 18 in a heavily wooded area and notified law enforcement officials, who then notified the U.S. Navy.

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Police: Drunk man tried to revive dead opossum

Friday, March 26th, 2010

So there’s love for animals and then there’s love for animals.  I think this takes the cake though.  My first impression is, what the heck would happen if it worked.  A possum is basically a grizzly bear on steriods with an attitude and a smaller frame.  If it came to with you giving mouth to mouth I’d guess it’d rip you to shreds BEFORE you could get away.  There could be a darwin in this one.

PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. (AP) — Police say they charged a Pennsylvania man with public drunkenness after he was seen trying to resuscitate a long-dead opossum along a highway.

State police Trooper Jamie Levier says several witnesses saw 55-year-old Donald Wolfe, of Brookville, near the animal Thursday along Route 36 in Oliver Township, about 65 miles northeast of Pittsburgh.

The trooper says one person saw Wolfe kneeling before the animal and gesturing as though he were conducting a seance. He says another saw Wolfe attempting to give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.

Levier says the animal already had been dead a while.

The Associated Press could not locate a home telephone number for Wolfe.

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