A West Virginian man has been charged with battery on a South Charleston police officer for passing gas and waving the “fumes” toward the patrolman.
Jose A. Cruz, 34, failed three field sobriety tests. As the officer was trying to get fingerprints, Cruz moved closer, lifted his leg and “passed gas loudly.” Cruz then fanned the gas toward the officer. According to the report, “The gas was very odorous and created contact of an insulting or provoking nature with” the patrolman.
Buzz kill
Truck driver Tracy Hoffman of Glade Spring, Va., got an unexpected buzz Wednesday night.
His rig rammed into the rear of a second truck carrying precious cargo — bees. The accident ripped a basketball-sized hole in a tarp and released thousands of bees on Interstate 81 in Abindgon, Va.
Bee truck driver George Smiling tried to keep the cargo from escaping, but was stung four times before retreating back into his cab. No one else was injured, but some bees died.
DADD: Drunks against drunk drivers
A Utah man was hospitalized after his friend tried to stop him from drinking and driving.
Two men were at a house drinking when one of them got up to leave on his motorcycle, but his drinking buddy didn’t think it was safe for him to drive.
The friend stumbled to his car and drove after his friend. When he caught up with the motorcyclist and he tried to get him to pull over, their vehicles collided.
Got milk?
Ten members of an Arizona State University fraternity are believed to have caused a car accident by vomiting milk from a footbridge onto traffic below.
The incident caused a woman to rear-end another vehicle after that vehicle stopped to avoid the vomit, Tempe police said.
It is unknown why the men were drinking and vomiting the milk.
Bangs in the night
A Queens, N.Y., man spooked by a strange noise outside his apartment took an illegal handgun to bed — and accidentally shot his girlfriend, police said.
Larry Smith, 58, was arrested after his gun discharged at 2 a.m., hitting his girlfriend once in the chest as she slept beside him in his Jamaica home. Smith, a father of two, was charged with reckless endangerment, criminal possession of a weapon and assault.
