What’s in a name?
Some home owners in Park County, Wyo., are tired of telling people “FU” when asked where they live. So now they’re doing something about it. A petition is being circulated by the residents of County Road 6FU asking that the road be dually designated as Sheep Mountain Road.
The unfortunate name is the result of an alphanumeric road naming system adopted in 1980. City officials don’t want to set a precedent that would allow everyone to change their road’s name, but they do concede that the naming system didn’t work out well for those living on roads with offensive words.
An explosive marriage
When a jealous Austrian man installed a GPS tracking device in his estranged wife’s car to see if she was cheating on him, he discovered more than he bargained for.
First, he learned that when you hide a tracking device in your spouse’s car, you need to hide it well. It wasn’t long before his wife noticed some suspicious wires in the trunk of her car and called the police worried about a bomb.
The husband also learned that it’s really hard to exchange your GPS device once it’s been destroyed by a police robot from the bomb unit.
The man was questioned after the incident and he admitted buying the device in Vienna and installing it in the car. He told police he had learned his lesson and promised that from now on he would stick with rooting through his wife’s garbage and calling her in the middle of the night and hanging up.
Tips from the road
Almost all of us have been pulled over by the police at an inopportune time. Maybe you’re late for a Pilates class or have some outstanding assault warrants. Whatever the case, if you’re considering running from the police, make sure you understand what you’re running from. Sandy Long clearly had not weighed his options when he was pulled over last month in Toledo, Ohio. Sure, he was a middle-aged man dressed in drag, but all he had been doing was weaving. When police approached his car, though, he told them, “I am not going to jail. You will have to kill me first.” He then took off, leading police on possibly the worst chase of all time. For nearly an hour the police followed the cross-dresser around, only occasionally having to break the speed limit to keep up with him. Twice Long got out of their reach by leaving the city limits, only to drive back into their jurisdiction minutes later.
Finally Long made the worst decision of the night and led the chase right to police headquarters. If that wasn’t bad enough, it just happened to be during a shift change.
Finding himself suddenly surrounded by numerous on- and off-duty cops, Long slowed down even more which allowed the officers to break his windows, unlock his doors and put his car in park.
Originally pulled over for weaving, Long is now charged with fleeing and eluding, failing to comply with police orders and several traffic violations. Police still aren’t sure why he decided to run.
“We would have given him a summons for a court date,” police officer Rick Fisher said. “He never would have been booked into jail.”
Have it your %*&@#! way
Local police are trying to figure out who’s been hacking into the drive-through radio frequency at a Troy, Mich., Burger King and telling off the customers.
According to police, one customer who tried to order some hamburgers was told, “You don’t need a couple of Whoppers. You’re too fat. Pull ahead.”
Another time, a carload of customers was subjected to a stream of obscenities. When the manager came out to apologize, the drive-through speaker told him, “There’s nothing you or the police can do about this so get back inside and take your goons with you.”
The culprits are believed to be teenagers op-erating from close range, but local police have no leads.
As a result, the Federal Communications Commission has now taken over the case. Kevin Barnes, a spokesperson for the franchise company that owns the restaurant, said he’d like to keep news of the incidents low-key.
Yes, that’s the Burger King right across the street from Tubby’s Sub Shop by the Oakland Mall.
