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By TIMES WIRES
Published March 7, 2007

UNDER THE INFLUENCE

COPS ALWAYS SEARCH CARS THAT CRASH INTO THEM

It is good advice that you should always try to not slam into a state trooper's cruiser at 70 mph when it is parked in the middle of the highway. This is even better advice when your car has about 43 pounds of marijuana in the trunk. Howard Fisher, 54, of Daytona Beach Shores was arrested on DUI and drug charges after his Chevy Malibu hit one of the cruisers that was blocking lanes on I-95 in South Carolina where police were investigating an accident. His demeanor gave officers reason to suspect he might be drunk, and with the car just sitting right there, they decided to have a look in the trunk, where they found 77 bags of pot.

To get over DUI, he got drunk, again

Police in Aberdeen, Scotland, pulled Richard Power over about 3 a.m. on Jan.30. Police say his blood-alcohol level registered at twice the legal limit, and he was booked on DUI charges. Apparently, he got out of jail and decided that he could do better than just double the limit, and at 8 p.m. the police pulled him over again - same street, different car - and he was three times the limit. That got him another free ride to the police station. He has pleaded guilty and will be sentenced March 21.

He got license, then he lost it

On the topic of drunken record setters, Jason Richards managed to lose his license barely a day after getting it, according to the Eastern Daily Press of Norfolk, England. "If I had known I was over the limit I would never have done it," he said. "I had only had my license 28 hours." He had three pints of beer at lunch, but thought he would be okay to drive his motorcycle home at 5 p.m. He was wrong. Earlier in the week, another driver in England lost his license after being caught driving drunk 38 hours later. "I have beaten him by 10 hours," Richards said.

SOMETHING'S FISHY

Catfish is $7.99, even for takeout

At Di's Diner in Bull's Gap, Tenn., you have to pay for the catfish dinner, even if you're trying to sneak it out in your purse. Tina Henry and Dwight Jenkins of Di's told police that a "blond, heavy-frame female" came to the restaurant and ... well, let's let the Hawkins County police report tell the rest: "Tina states that as the suspect was paying, they told her she would have to pay for the dinner in her purse. She then became mad, throwing money at the cash register. The suspect then threw the fish out of her purse at Tina, hitting her in the back." The suspect got away, and the dinner, with an estimated value of $7.99, was ruined.

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