SAN RAFAEL, Calif. – Kevin Morgan is no dummy – but he got in trouble for driving with one.
Morgan, 28, got a $351 citation for putting a kickboxing dummy in the passenger seat of his car, then driving in a carpool lane.
“I think he was pretty embarrassed because all the people driving by were laughing,” Officer Will Thompson said. “About the only thing he said was, ‘Well, that didn’t help me very much today, did it?’”
Thompson often parks next to the car pool lane and stands on his car door rail to look down into passing vehicles. His point of view allowed him to see Morgan’s dummy, which had no legs.
Chocolate factory smells may violate Clean Air Act
CHICAGO – Smells wafting from a chocolate factory might make mouths water, but they also could violate the Clean Air Act.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency cited the Blommer Chocolate Co. this week for alleged clean-air violations after someone complained about smells and emissions from the cocoa bean processing plant.
Inspectors saw excessive dust coming from machinery, the EPA said Wednesday in a statement.
“Inhaling high concentrations of particulates can affect children, the elderly and people with heart and lung diseases,” the statement said.
Suspected thief tripped up by his baggy pants
FERNDALE, Mich. – A man suspected of stealing discs from a video store was tripped up twice by his baggy pants before police captured him, authorities said.
James Green, 30, of Detroit, took about a half-dozen DVDs on Sunday night, and initially made his getaway on a bicycle, police said.
He abandoned the bike when officers spotted him in an alley, but his pants fell to his ankles and he tripped, Ferndale Detective Sgt. Patrick Jones said.
“Finally, he kicked off his pants and shoes” and jumped a fence into the back yard of a house where he was captured, Jones said.
Green pleaded guilty Monday to resisting arrest and retail fraud and was ordered jailed for 30 days.
Driver speeds up to avoid car, drives through office
ANDERSON, S.C. – Thelma Owens’ passenger told her to step on it and she did, driving her 1988 Buick all the way through a business, police say.
“She went through four or five walls and out the back,” police Cpl. Ron Colbert said.
The 82-year-old driver was trying to turn out of a parking lot when her passenger told her to hit the gas because she was pulling in front of a car. Owens accelerated, but didn’t turn her steering wheel, police said.
Associated Press
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