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Why taking naps is bad
Twenty-nine-year-old Tuan Quac Phan, a Vietnamese man looking for a
fishing job in British Columbia, Canada, learned the hard way that taking naps
can be hazardous to your health. According to Sgt. Dan Jewell of the Whittier,
Alaska Police Department, "He had climbed up in this box car to get out of the
weather and to get some sleep. The next thing you know, the boxcar is coupled
up and loaded up to a barge and headed north." Jewell said that Phan was not
discovered for five days. When the box car was unloaded in Whittier, Phan was
dehydrated, famished, and terrified. According to Jewell, Phan was extremely
cooperative. "Seeing me in my uniform, he kept saying, `Jail better. Jail
better.'"
Friends don't let friends ride shopping carts drunk
A 20-year-old Swedish man in the southern Swedish town of Mottala
faces charges of reckless driving after hitting a car while riding a shopping
cart drunk. According to Police Inspector Lennart Johansson, the man was
travelling downhill in a shopping cart at approximately 30 mph when he collided
head-on with an automobile. Johansson was not sure whether the charges would
hold up in court. "He was certainly careless, but I suppose it's debatable
whether he was driving. He was rather drunk, and his trolley wasn't showing the
appropriate lights," Johannson said. The alleged drunk driver was released from
the hospital with minor abrasions and a hang-over.
Take a hit and you're busted
Police in Key West, Fla., didn't even have to leave their desks to
know someone was smoking pot right outside their window. The guilty, revelers
in Key West's annual Fantasy Festival, were right outside under an
air-conditioning intake. "We were all sitting in our office on Saturday night
and all of a sudden, heavy marijuana fumes started coming through the vents,"
Detective Alfredo Vazquez said. "We went outside and found three men huddled in
the bushes smoking away on a joint."
Compiled by Michael Rubin from the Jordan Times
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