Topic: POLICE REPORT - on September 27, 2004 at 11:23:00 AM CEST
Couple were having sex, crash investigators find
A 25-year-old man was killed and his partner was seriously injured yesterday in a head-on crash that police said took place while the driver was having sex behind the wheel.
Another car veered into the couple's path in this town 25 kilometres northeast of Quebec City, shattering both vehicles and trapping the occupants.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on September 26, 2004 at 1:30:00 PM CEST
Patrol stands by 205-mph speeding ticket
There's little doubt that a Stillwater motorcyclist could wind up his Honda sport motorcycle past 180 mph, but members of the motorcycle racing world question whether the State Patrol was correct to cite him for 205 mph last weekend.
The State Patrol is standing by its stopwatch, and the speeding ticket a veteran trooper wrote for Samuel Tilley for driving his 2003 Honda RC51 on U.S. Highway 61 near Wabasha on the state's eastern border.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on September 25, 2004 at 12:57:00 PM CEST
Urine bomb thrown at police
Police had to dodge a urine bomb and other objects flung from a stolen car during a 47-kilometre chase from Hutt Valley to the west coast.
Twice the chase had to be abandoned as the driver of the car, reported stolen from Auckland two weeks earlier, drove up main highways the wrong way to elude police.
The car, with four people inside, also avoided road spikes and reached speeds of up to 140km/h.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on September 25, 2004 at 11:23:00 AM CEST
Iranischer Fälscher fliegt durch Denkfehler auf
Ein Iraner ist am Flughafen Düsseldorf mit einem gefälschten Visum aufgefallen. Dies war bis zu einem Datum gültig, das es gar nicht gibt.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on September 24, 2004 at 9:57:00 PM CEST
Gelbes Kajak auf Südautobahn vermisst
Villacher Verkehrspolizei und Autobahn-Gendarmerie hatten Freitagnachmittag einen besonderen Einsatz: Sie waren auf der (bisher erfolglosen) Suche nach einem gelben Kajak, das ein deutscher Autofahrer verloren haben will.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on September 24, 2004 at 11:47:00 AM CEST
Women Allegedly Try to Force Man to Wed
Four women were briefly detained for allegedly seizing a man they were trying to force to marry a former girlfriend he impregnated, police said Thursday.
The 22-year-old man told police the 16-year-old ex-girlfriend, her mother, sister and aunt approached him Tuesday outside the food processing plant where he works and forced him into a taxi.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on September 23, 2004 at 5:39:00 PM CEST
Judge gets poetic when deciding you can't be 'drunk driver' on horse
The state Supreme Court ruled that Pennsylvania's drunken driving law can't be enforced against people on horseback, a decision that inspired the dissenting justice to wax poetic.
Justice Michael Eakin, who is fond of writing rhyming opinions, summed up the lone dissent with two stanzas mimicking the theme song of "Mister Ed" -- a 1960s TV sitcom about a talking horse:
"A horse is a horse, of course, of course,
but the Vehicle Code does not divorce
its application from, perforce,
a steed as my colleagues said.
"'It's not vague,' I'll say until I'm hoarse,
and whether a car, a truck or horse
this law applies with equal force,
and I'd reverse instead."
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on September 23, 2004 at 11:21:00 AM CEST
Man in wheelchair accused of robbing bank
A man in a wheelchair said he robbed a bank because a homeless assistance center and a hospital refused to help him.
Larry Miller, 42, went into Pan American Bank on Tuesday - an employee opened the door for him - carrying a note reading, "Robbery put the money bag" and "1,500," police said.
Miller, who had no weapon, gave the note to a teller, who gave him two $100 bills.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on September 23, 2004 at 11:18:00 AM CEST
Cat search turns up fake grenade
A woman looking for a cat in an abandoned house came across what appeared to be a grenade dangling from the ceiling of a room and apparently rigged to explode if someone came through a window, a State Police sergeant said Wednesday.
The grenade turned out to be fake, the type sold at novelty stores, and did not have any explosive materials, said 1st Sgt. D.P. Reider.
"It kind of looked like a booby trap," Reider said.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on September 23, 2004 at 11:15:00 AM CEST
Serbian actors arrested while filming robbery scene
A group of Serbian actors filming a bank robbery scene played their parts so well that police mistook them for the real thing and hauled them off to a police station, a newspaper reported Wednesday.
The crew was filming the robbery scene Tuesday on a street in Novi Sad, 30 miles north of Belgrade, as part of a project to be shown in a multimedia performance at the nearby Serbian National Theater.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on September 22, 2004 at 8:36:00 PM CEST
Blurry-eyed thieves make off with three tons of reading glasses
Thieves who broke into a delivery truck in a parking lot in southwestern Sweden made off with about 150,000 pairs, or about three tons, of low-cost reading glasses. The truck, which was carrying about six tons of the glasses, mainly sold at gas stations and super markets, was parked in the large lot in Goetene when the thieves struck, according to Swedish daily Aftonbladet's Internet site.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on September 22, 2004 at 10:46:00 AM CEST
Trooper pens 205 mph ticket in Minnesota
With a State Patrol airplane overhead, a motorcyclist hit the throttle and possibly set the informal record for the fastest speeding ticket in Minnesota history: 205 mph.
On Saturday afternoon, State Patrol pilot Al Loney was flying near Wabasha, in southeastern Minnesota on the Wisconsin border, watching two motorcyclists racing along U.S. Highway 61.
When one of the riders shot forward, Loney was ready with his stopwatch. He clicked it once when the motorcycle reached a white marker on the road and again a quarter-mile later. The watch read 4.39 seconds, which Loney calculated to be 205 mph.
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