By DAVID K. LI, Wire Services
June 12, 2008
Deja DUI!
Cops in Sheboygan, Wis., busted a man for drunken driving twice within two hours.
First, the 24-year-old man was stopped by an officer for driving the wrong way on a one-way street. He was released to his brother, but then hours later, he was arrested again - for drunkenly driving the same car 50 mph in a 30-mph zone.
That drunk could have taken a lesson from this Pennsylvania man.
Stephen Shoemaker, 33, of Shippensburg, was due to be sentenced for a 2007 DWI conviction earlier this week, but his brother didn't show up to give him a lift. So Shoemaker hoofed it 25 miles to court through 90-degree heat.
He was forced to stop at a hospital to be treated for dehydration.
A New Hampshire teen used a stolen credit card at a store where he applied for a job later the same day, cops said.
Fandi Pradipta, 18, pleaded guilty to using a stolen card at the store in Newington.
When he filled out a job application at the store, he listed his name, address, and telephone number.
He was fined and given a suspended sentence.
An English man literally had money to burn.
Leo Casey, 63, was sentenced to community service for burning about $34,000 in British currency during an argument with his live-in partner.
He admitted locking himself inside his Nottingham home and setting fire to the 20-pound notes before tossing them out a window.
Casey pleaded guilty to arson and was sentenced to 18 months of community service.
"Deer" me! A unicorn
A deer with a single horn in the center of its head - much like the mythical unicorn - has been found in a nature preserve in Italy.
"This is fantasy becoming reality," said Gilberto Tozzi, director of the Center of Natural Sciences in Prato.
