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Man on lawn mower charged with DUI, theft and burglary

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

I am not sure DUI is the right charge, maybe driving while imbibing with the intent to mow and fish.  Also was he charge for not having tail-lights?   And finally, where was he going fishing, does he know a secret place we could reveal?

ATHENS, Tenn. (AP) — An East Tennessee man driving a lawn mower in the road has been charged with DUI. Athens police said 30-year-old Jimmy Graham Jr. smelled like alcohol and failed a sobriety test Monday after an officer spotted him on the lawn mower. He told the officer he had consumed a beer and taken a stress reliever prescribed to him.

A jailer said Graham was in custody Tuesday and there was no record of him having a lawyer.

The Daily Post-Athenian in Athens reported that Graham was also charged with aggravated burglary and theft under $500.

A police report shows Graham told the officer he had stopped by a house to pick up some fishing poles. Police said the man who lives at the house where Graham had stopped on the mower told police the fishing poles were stolen from his garage.

Information from: The Daily Post-Athenian, http://dpa.xtn.net

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Cops: Man drove drunk to prison for DUI sentence

Monday, April 12th, 2010

Nothing like an overachiever when it comes to incarceration.   If I can get 2 days for a DUI, why not show up drunk and hope for more?  After all prison is a 5 star venue, unfortunately it’s minus 5 stars, but hey if you are drunk it might be as nice as a Sandals resort (and you get to wear sandals).

SPRINGFIELD, Vt. (AP) — Police said a Massachusetts man headed to a Vermont prison to serve a two-day sentence for driving under the influence was intoxicated when he drove himself to prison.

Vermont State Police say that staff at the Southern State Correctional Facility in Springfield noticed that a 42-year-old man was intoxicated when he arrived late Tuesday afternoon and that he had driven himself there.

So prison staff called police.

Police said the man was then processed for DUI second offense and released back into the custody of the Department of Corrections.

The man was due to appear in court later this month on the latest charge.

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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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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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