That’ll be $6.80
A taxicab passenger nearly died seconds after this cabbie uttered the five words that no rider wants to hear: “This will be really cool.”
The driver told two passengers in Normal, Ill., that he could make their stomachs jump by speeding over a bridge.
The driver hit the gas and sped his cab over the crest of the Camelback Bridge, but the car skidded on the wet pavement and the cabbie slammed on the brakes. The cab slid over the curb, broke a utility pole and tipped over.
The front-seat passenger was partially ejected from the seat, and his left arm got caught under the car. The three men survived, and the cabbie was cited for reckless driving and speeding.
A shut-and-open case
A Florida woman called Kissimmee police because she locked herself inside her car.
“Nothing electrical works,” the woman told a dispatcher. “And it’s getting very hot in here, and I’m not feeling well.”
The dispatcher asked the woman whether she was able to manually pull the lock up on the door. When the woman gave it a try, the door opened.
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Yesterday was a very good year
A 60-year-old Washington woman was arrested for drunken driving three times in three days while vacationing in Wisconsin.
A deputy saw her try to drive out of a ditch, wearing only one shoe and with a blood alcohol level more than double the legal threshold for driving under the influence, authorities said.
She was arrested the next day after her car got stuck in snow in a campground closed for the winter. When the officer questioned her, she motioned to a box of Black Fox wine and replied, “I am still finishing up the box of wine from yesterday.”
High crimes
An Ohio teen goaded his stepbrother into shooting him in the leg, police said.
Eric B. Fortune Jr., 19, initially filed a false report, stating he was shot by an unknown assailant. He later confessed that he was smoking marijuana and wanted to know what it felt like to be shot by a gun. So he badgered his 17-year-old stepbrother to shoot him in the leg.
The hesitant stepbrother blew a hole in Fortune’s leg, and both teens began to cry, according to the report.
Losers go home
Two burglars who tried to break into a St. Petersburg, Fla., home went away empty-handed — one of them likely with a bad headache.
Surveillance video captured the pair. One placed himself in a football stance and ran the length of the yard into the porch door with his body. The impact sent the would-be thief flying backward and onto the ground, where he was seen writhing in pain. The other threw a brick into the window, setting of an alarm that scared off the duo.
