I've refrained from posting NOTW for awhile, but this one....
In a New Year's Eve ruling, Hillsboro, Ohio, Municipal Judge James Hapner ordered chronic drunk driver Dennis Cayse (18 convictions) to move to within a half-mile of a liquor store so that he will not be tempted to drive to and from bars. Furthermore, when he travels by automobile, he must either have another person between him and the driver or must be handcuffed to the passenger-side door, so as to reduce the likelihood that he could be driving and change seats if stopped.
... reminded me of a joke.....
One night a police officer was staking out a particularly rowdy bar for possible violations of the driving-under-the-influence laws. At closing time, he saw a fellow stumble out of the bar, trip on the curb and try his keys on five different cars before he found his. Then he sat in the front seat fumbling around with his keys for several minutes. Everyone else left the bar and drove off. Finally the fellow started his engine and began to pull away.
The police officer was waiting for him. He stopped the driver, read him his rights and administered the Breathalyzer test. The results showed a reading of 0.0. The puzzled officer demanded to know how that could be. The driver replied, "Tonight I'm the designated decoy."
And, we had the usual suspects - a Darwin winner and a strong candidate....
In September in Blaine, Minn., a 19-year-old man fatally shot himself with a .38-caliber revolver while playing Russian roulette. According to a Minneapolis Star Tribune report, citing police Lt. Larry Klink, the man loaded one bullet, spun the cylinder, and put the gun to his head. His friends tried to stop him, but the man assured them that the bullet was not behind the barrel, but next to it. According to another police officer cited by the Star Tribune, "Not everyone realizes how a revolver works. As you pull the trigger, the cylinder rotates, bringing the next chamber under the hammer. If that [next] chamber is loaded, then it's going to fire."
* In February, the Connecticut Court of Appeals upheld the kidnapping-robbery convictions of Michael Carter, thus rejecting his claim that witnesses' identification of him should have been suppressed at his trial. At the time of arrest, according to New Haven police officer Dario Aponte, Carter had proclaimed his innocence but resisted being returned to the scene of the crime so witnesses could see him, asking Aponte, "How can they identify me? I had a mask on." |
