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Beer run goes sour
An inebriated 27-year-old resident of Cape Coral, Fla.,
was arrested last week after local authorities saw his pick-up
truck drive onto a median. The man wasn't charged with driving
under the influence, however, for he wasn't behind the wheel
- instead, it was his 9-year-old son steering the vehicle.
According to police, the man asked his son to drive the truck
so he could make a beer run. After they pulled the vehicle over,
police found an open case of Budweiser in the back seat. They
noted that the man had slurred speech and was unable to stand
without swaying. He was charged with cruelty toward a child
and allowing an unlicensed minor to drive.
When presented before a magistrate, the man publicly apologized,
then stated that he was happy they didn't see it when he got
drunk and had his son drive the speed boat home.
Congresswoman hangs up on Obama
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Republican congresswoman from Florida's
18th district, was convinced on Wednesday that she was receiving
a prank call from a South Florida radio station pretending to
be President-elect Barack Obama. She was so convinced of this
that she hung up on the caller, and hung up again when the caller
attempted to call back.
Unfortunately for Ros-Lehtinen, it was no prank caller, a fact
she was informed of shortly after hanging up when she received
an "urgent call" from Congressman Howard Berman of
California.
She accepted a call from Obama later in the day. She also accepted
a call from Al Franken, the Democratic nominee for the still-recounting
U.S. Senate seat in Minnesota, which turned out to be a prank
call from a South Florida radio station.
Rose cuts arm in bed
Chicago Bulls rookie Derrick Rose was forced to miss Monday's
practice after a late-night snack turned into a visit to the
emergency room and 10 stitches. He had been slicing an apple
in his bed with a knife when he got out of bed to grab a bottle
of water, forgetting about the knife until he got back into
the bed.
Rose frantically called Bulls Athletic Trainer Fred Tedeschi,
who drove Rose to the hospital. Rose said that he will have
to have the stitches for 10 to 14 days, but the injury won't
cause him to miss any more practices or any games.
While Rose did note that the injury was "a silly incident,"
he said that he felt better knowing that Gus Frerotte was sidelined
for smashing his head into a cement wall, Wade Boggs missed
a game trying to put on cowboy boots and Detroit Tigers pitcher
Joel Zumaya missed three games of the 2006 ALCS due to an injury
caused by his Guitar Hero addiction.
NYC man fights parking ticket
63-year-old Simon Belsky said that boredom led him to fight
a $115 parking ticket in New York City that he received in 2006
- but didn't say exactly why he has spent $7,500 to fight the
ticket instead of just paying the fine.
He claims that he was ticketed for blocking access to a fire
hydrant, but the only fire hydrant on the street was nowhere
near his vehicle.
"It's a matter of principle," he said of the incident,
and records show that it's not the first such battle Belsky
has waged. After accidentally subscribing to Vogue in 1998,
Belsky ran up $800 in long-distance phone calls to cancel the
$25 subscription.
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