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The operator of a La-Z-Boy chair converted into a motorized vehicle -- complete with a stereo and cup holders -- has admitted that he crashed the piece of furniture after leaving a bar in Proctor, Minn., extremely drunk. Dennis LeRoy Anderson, 61, of Proctor, pleaded guilty Monday to hopping on the chair on the night of Aug. 31, 2008, after visiting the Keyboard Lounge, then crashing into a more traditional vehicle in the parking lot. Anderson's blood-alcohol content was 0.29 percent, more than three times the legal limit for driving in Minnesota. Deputy Police Chief Troy Foucault said today that...

PORT ANGELES -- A game of tag with a flame and lighter fluid has sent an unidentified man to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle to be treated for serious injuries, said the Clallam County Fire District No. 2 chief. Volunteer paramedics and emergency medical technicians were called to an area 2 miles east of Port Angeles at about 8 p.m. Monday, said Fire Chief Jon Bugher. Bugher said several people had been playing a game called "lighter tag," which involves squirting themselves with lighter fluid and then lighting the clothing of the person who is "it." The tagged person beats...

<p>MAGNOLIA, Ark. -- Sheriff’s deputies say a Texas woman started a brawl at a wake in Arkansas when she arrived with a beer can in her hand.</p>

This one's too stupid for me to make up. From the San Francisco Chronicle: "Authorities in Ohio say a man has been charged with drunken driving after crashing his motorized bar stool. Police in Newark, 30 miles east of Columbus, say when they responded to a report of a crash with injuries on March 4, they found a man who had wrecked a bar stool powered by a deconstructed lawn mower."

On your list of things to never, ever do, add this one: Using a lighter to check if your fuel tank is empty. A 44-year-old man from Fort Worth stuck a lighter into the neck of his dump truck's fuel tank Sunday night to confirm that's why the engine died, authorities said. Diesel fuel vapors in the tank ignited, causing a flash fire that burned his face and hands, Wichita Fire Department Lt. Stuart Bevis said. The incident happened on the Kansas Turnpike in south Wichita shortly after 9:30 p.m, he said. The man walked to a convenience store at...

TAMPA - If you ever need an example of why drinking and dialing isn't a joke and can lead to serious repercussions, consider the case of Evon Cavett. Tampa police say she was the woman who misused the 911 system Wednesday, calling three times to tell dispatchers that her roommate was trying to take beer away from her. Here's a partial transcript of the 911 calls, released today by the Tampa Police Department. Dispatcher: "What's the problem right now?" Cavett: "Domestic violence." Dispatcher: "What's going on?" Cavett: "OK, there's an argument going out of control." Dispatcher: "What are you arguing...

Gangsters videoed their crime boss accidentally blowing his brains out with a handgun during a drink and drugs party, police revealed yesterday. Philip Collopy, 29, a member of a feuding gang in Limerick, Ireland, apparently did not realise his Glock 9mm pistol was loaded when he pointed it at his head and pulled the trigger in front of shocked onlookers. Collopy, who was aligned to the Keane-Collopy gang in a long-running gangland feud, had emptied the magazine from the handgun, but there was still a bullet in the chamber. Investigating police were able to rule out foul play in the...

The media has continued to hide and misreport the fact that 30 plus lawsuits are in the courts challenging Obama's eligibility to serve as President. These lawsuits have been trying to avert the greatest Constitutional crisis America has ever faced. The likelihood that Obama does not qualify as a "Natural Born Citizen" as is required under the Constitution is a very serious matter. There is no provision to allow Obama to remain in Office if he has in fact managed to defame/usurp the Office of the Presidency and our Constitution. In fact, every executive order, law, etc. that Obama signs...

Brockhausen v. Andrade: Judge: “This Court has no Jurisdiction”; Update: US Attorneys Getting Involved [snip} Quote: " I wanted to thank everybody for concern and well wishes. I just got ome from TX after some 48 hours with only 3 hours of sleep. TX judge Burt Carnes has allowed me to represent Jody Brockhausen against Secretary of State of TX, he has signed my application to represent her Pro Hac Vice (out of state attorney), but his decision was that he has no jurisdiction to hear the case in the state court. It looked like his mind was made even...

MORA, Minn. -- A Mora woman has paid a $2,500 fine in relation to the October, 2007 shooting of a bald eagle. On Oct. 10, Minnesota DNR officers received a complaint from the Minnesota “Turn in Poachers” hotline that a bald eagle had been killed in Mora. Katherine K. Tramm, 48, paid the fine July 15. After being listed as endangered since 1967, the bald eagle was removed from the federal list of threatened and endangered species in 2007. "This case is a clear indication that the DNR and the USF&WS are working diligently to protect and preserve our natural...

ATLANTA -- Alcohol was a factor in the death of a 25-year-old man who fell down a stairwell at Turner Field during a game between the Atlanta Braves and New York Mets. Justin Hayes of Cumming, Ga., suffered head injuries Wednesday night and was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital. He fell about 150 feet from the club level to the landing on the field level during the eighth inning. The investigation is "pointing toward drinking. Alcohol was a factor," said Atlanta police department spokesman Ronald Campbell on Thursday. Campbell said Hayes may have been sliding down the handrails when he...

DEEPWATER, Mo. -- Officials were trying Tuesday to decide whether to file charges against a Missouri man who fatally shot his wife while trying to install a satellite TV system in the bedroom of their home. Patsy Long, 34, of Deepwater, died after being shot in the chest with a .22-caliber handgun on Saturday. Her husband, Ronald Long, fired the shot from the inside of their home after several unsuccessful efforts to punch a hole through the exterior wall using other means. Henry County sheriff's deputies said the woman was hit by the second of two shots fired by her...

According to a pioneering study by a Czech Republic scientist, beer is bad for science because the inebriating effects of beer lower creativity in scientific research. Could this problem be carried over to college students and the general population? Behavioral ecologist Tomáš Grim, of the Department of Zoology at Palacký University (Olomouc, Czech Republic) wrote the 2008 paper, “A possible role of social activity to explain differences in publication output among ecologists.” It appears in the Oikos, the journal of The Nordic Ecological Society. Grim, like all scientists, knew that the number of scientific papers produced each year is a major...

Apparent copper thief gets severe shock 02:29 PM CST on Thursday, February 28, 2008 By JESSICA VESS KVUE News Witnesses describe how a copper thief caused a major power outage in East Austin Wednesday afternoon. Over 7,000 people were without electricity for more than two hours, and authorities say the thief was air lifted to the hospital with severe electrical burns over his entire body. The latest on the case The man was inside the Kingsbury substation. 138,000 volts flow through that substation. There are only 10 substations that large in the entire city. It's fenced in and the gates...

Suicide bomber falls down stairs ... From correspondents in Khost, Afghanistan January 24, 2008 12:39pm Article from: Agence France-Presse A WOULD-be suicide bomber fell down a flight of stairs and blew himself up as he headed out for an attack in Afghanistan, police say. It was the second such incident in two days, with another man killing himself and three others on Tuesday when his bomb-filled waistcoat exploded as he was putting it on in the southern town of Lashkar Gah. Yesterday's blast was in a busy market area of the eastern town of Khost, a deputy provincial police chief...

One of the three victims of San Francisco Zoo tiger attack was intoxicated and admitted to yelling and waving at the animal while standing atop the railing of the big cat enclosure, police said in court documents filed Thursday. Paul Dhaliwal, 19, told the father of Carlos Sousa Jr., 17, who was killed, that the three yelled and waved at the tiger but insisted they never threw anything into its pen to provoke the cat, according to a search warrant affidavit obtained by the San Francisco Chronicle. "As a result of this investigation, (police believe) that the tiger may have...

HORSHAM, England, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- A British man was rushed to the hospital after his monster yawn locked his jaw, blocking his ability to breathe or swallow. Ben Shire, 34, was making a cup of tea to keep awake when he yawned, dislocating his jaw. He fell to the floor, unable to breathe or swallow, the Daily Telegraph reported. As he was choking on his own spit, Shire's wife called emergency services, which was able to resuscitate him by suctioning. "We can laugh about it now, but it wasn't funny at the time," Shire, from Horsham, said. "I couldn't...

<p>So, I’m a Ronbot. According to certain denizens of the web lurking in their shadowy corners of the blogosphere, there are many of us Ronbots out there, but not too many. No, if there were too many if us, if we were more than say one or two percent of the population, then that would shatter the world view of some of these Internet denizens. We are a small Ronbot army, somehow controlled by this mystical deity and granted the magical ability to be able to hijack Internet, phone and other polls meant to give viewers of debates a voice of who won said debate. Come to think of it, according to some pundits, there are only a few of us who are very smart and know how to spam these polls. Ok, ok, I admit it, I’m the only real Ron Paul supporter and I’ve been creating all this hubbub and spam on my old turbo charged Atari 800 computer.</p>

CARMEL, N.Y. - Two day laborers have been sentenced to 15 years to life in prison for drowning a drinking buddy over beer money. Augustin Perez, 46, and Manuel Perez, 25, were sentenced Wednesday in the killing of Esmaraldo Salazar, 33, whose body was found floating in the Croton River in Brewster last November. The three men were living in an encampment in the woods outside Brewster. Prosecutors said the Perezes, who are not related, drowned Salazar because he balked when it was his turn to buy beer. They each pleaded guilty in March to second-degree murder. "It is appalling...

COTATI, Calif.- A Napa County sheriff's deputy walked into a bar bathroom and left without his gun, authorities said. The out-of-uniform officer forgot his loaded service revolver in the restroom of the Tradewinds Bar in downtown Cotati late Friday. A customer found the gun and turned it over to restaurant staff, who called police, said Capt. John Robertson. "In a very short time he realized he had left his gun in the bathroom," Robertson said

GRAPEVINE — A Grapevine woman died Thursday evening after she stepped out of a pickup that her husband was driving and fell under a rear wheel, police said. The 41-year-old, who had become upset about an incorrect food order from a take-out restaurant, threw the bag out a window and stepped out of the pickup, police said. Police identified the victim as Pamela Ann Meek-Kreilach, who died at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas shortly after the accident. The accident happened shortly after 5 p.m. Thursday on Shadybrook Drive near Trail Edge Drive. Timothy Kreilach was driving his 2002 Ford F250...

EYRE Peninsula man Phillip Kerkhof has wrestled a 1.3m shark - and lived to tell the tale with barely a scratch on him. ...... "It's amazing what vodka does to you, but when I woke up the next morning I thought it probably wasn't the smartest thing to do," he said.

WOODSIDE, Del. -- State fire officials say a Woodside-area man was seriously burned last night in an explosion after he poured gunpowder into a charcoal grill and ignited it. Michael Chionchio of the state Fire Marshal's Office says the 50-year-old man suffered first-degree burns to his face and third-degree burns to the hand he used to light the black powder. The man, whose name is not being released pending an investigation, was taken to the Kent General Hospital, where he is being treated. Chionchio says the man was alone in the back yard of a home in the 100 block...

College Students Found Dead Inside Balloon ASSOCIATED PRESS LUTZ, Fla. (AP) - Two college students were found dead inside a large, deflated helium balloon after apparently pulling it down and crawling inside it, officials said. The deaths of Jason Ackerman and Sara Rydman, both 21, appear to be accidental, Hillsborough County Sheriff's Maj. Bob Schrader said. Their bodies were found Saturday partially inside a deflated helium balloon at the entrance of a condominium complex a few miles north of Tampa. The 8-foot-diameter balloon was used to advertise the complex. "It was more a fun thing they thought they were doing,"...

SEATTLE - Three men are in the hospital with serious injuries after a fireworks accident Thursday. Investigators say the victims were part of a group of 10 or 12 construction workers having a barbeque at the KOA campground off Highway 12 in Lewis County. One of the men came over to the campfire and showed off a powerful firework that was about 5 inches long and an inch thick. Another man tossed it into the fire, but it failed to light, so he reached in to the fire to retrieve it, police say. A family member told KOMO 4 News...

(AP) GILLESPIE, Ill. Two Macoupin County men are accused of forcing a fifth of vodka down an eight-week-old puppy's throat during a party last weekend. The puppy's owners arrived at the Gillespie house to pick the dog up and found it in comatose-like state. But after some medical treatment -- including an intravenous drip to flush the alcohol out of its system -- the dog is doing OK. The two Gillespie men were arrested yesterday on felony counts of aggravated cruel treatment of an animal and cruel treatment of an animal. Gillespie Police Chief Robert Hay says the men admitted...

CHEYENNE -- Edward Lee Vanek, the man accused of robbing a bank in Cheyenne last Friday and then leading police on a high-speed chase to Laramie, had been scheduled to close on a house purchase that day and told his girlfriend before the robbery that he was heading to his bank to straighten out a delayed money transfer, according to an FBI affidavit. Vanek, 45, was shot twice by police last Friday in a house in Laramie about an hour after the robbery of a First Interstate Bank in Cheyenne. Vanek, originally from Montana, made an initial court appearance from...

MUMBAI (Reuters) - An Indian low-cost airline suspended a pilot after he was found drunk shortly before he was due to fly an aircraft with about 100 passengers on board, officials said Wednesday. The surprise Tuesday check at Mumbai airport -- India's busiest -- threw up several minor violations of safety norms by airlines, including an instance of a pilot in another low-cost carrier trying to fly in a T-shirt because his only uniform had gone to the laundry. While aviation officials let most offenders off with a warning, Captain N. Ronaldo, a South American pilot flying an Air Deccan...

Sunday, June 19, 2005 Family Fight Ends In Deadly Gunfire A family fight escalates to gunfire and ends with a man shooting his mother in law dead. It all started around three Sunday morning in Southern Greenville County on Kentwood Lane. The Sheriff's office says the mother in law pulled out a gun and started shooting at the fifty-one year old man. That's when the man took cover in his bedroom and grabbed his gun from under the bed. He stuck his head out and the mother in law shot again but missed. That's when he says he returned the...

A 17-year-old who had been drinking with friends for most of the day Monday fell off the side of a fifth-floor hotel balcony in Myrtle Beach after he lost his balance while attempting to do a head stand on the railing, authorities said. Ryan Chmielewski of Lexington suffered assorted injuries, including a fractured vertebrae and dislocated shoulder, and was taken to Grand Strand Regional Medical Center after the accident at 10:45 p.m. A nursing supervisor Tuesday said he was in serious condition. Though Chmielewski - whose fall was broken by bushes, police said - does not face any charges, two...

May 23, 4:15 PM EDT Man Leaps From Car to Retrieve Cigarette FOREMAN, Ark. (AP) -- A man was injured when he jumped from a car traveling 55-60 mph in an effort to retrieve a cigarette blown out of a passenger-side window. Jeff Foran, 38, suffered trauma to his nose, eyes and chin after leaping from the car Saturday night and landing on the eastbound lane Arkanas 234 near the Oklahoma border, state police Trooper Jamie Gravier said. The driver of the car, Jerry Glenn Nelson, 44, of Haworth, Okla., said Foran had asked him earlier in the evening to...

Ananova: Man peed way out of avalanche A Slovak man trapped in his car under an avalanche freed himself by drinking 60 bottles of beer and urinating on the snow to melt it. Rescue teams found Richard Kral drunk and staggering along a mountain path four days after his Audi car was buried in the Slovak Tatra mountains. He told them that after the avalanche, he had opened his car window and tried to dig his way out. But as he dug with his hands, he realised the snow would fill his car before he managed to break through. He...

A crowd gathered after this sport utility vehicle was driven to far down the boat loading area at the South Beach Marina in Sea Pines Saturday afternoon on Hilton Head Island and slipped into the water. Curtis Jenkins, wearing the white shirt, and Ronnie Williams with Tommy's Towing were trying to hook the car up and get it ashore. A visitor to the island accidentally launched his sport utility vehicle into the water along with his boat at the South Beach boat ramp on Saturday, Sea Pines Security said. The man backed down the ramp with a trailer carrying...

Two Charged After Human Catapult Death Jul 15, 7:11 am ET LONDON (Reuters) - British police charged two men with manslaughter Tuesday following the death of an Oxford University student who was flung from a giant catapult. Bulgarian Konstadin Yankov, 19, died last November when the stunt near the West Country town of Bridgewater went wrong. "He had been thrown by a replica medieval catapult and failed to reach the landing net," said a police spokeswoman. Yankov was on an outing with the Oxford Stunt Factory, an unofficial club at Oxford University where he was studying biochemistry. He had been...

Four people are under arrest after state police busted up two methamphetamine labs this week. Police say they were called to a home in Waterloo, Seneca County NY for a domestic dispute. Police noticed materials used to make meth and they obtained a search warrant. Police took 32 ounces of methamphetamine, drug paraphernalia, and packaging materials. Police arrested Edward Haddard for harassment, reckless endangerment and criminal mischief. He was released from jail. Lorrie Mae Santilli is under arrest on drug charges. She remains behind bars. On Friday, police executed warrants at two locations in Phelps, Ontario County. Inside a house...

Dec. 4 - Our Crime of the Week features a burglar whose apparantly watches too many old movies.  At least that's where it seems she learned her bank burglary techniques.  On the night of Halloween, a woman with a ponytail and a light-colored sweatshirt broke into the Regions Bank on South Memorial Parkway in Huntsville.  After breaking a window to get inside, she was caught on surveillance video going straight for the vault.  What police consider an inexperienced move, she put her ear to the door while turning the dial.  She tries this for some time then realizes it's not going to work.  After that,...