Thursday, April 21, 2005

Trying to Avoid the Inevitable

1. "Man who jumped off bridge to avoid arrest survived fall"
   <http://www.lex18.com/Global/story.asp?S=2646161&nav=EQlpToCU>
"Police in Louisville now believe that a man who jumped from a bridge after
 he was cornered by officers is alive"

2. "Man swallows knife to avoid arrest"
   <http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_964920.html>
"Doctors say a man who swallowed a three-inch knife to avoid charges of
 possessing a weapon is lucky to be alive"

3. "Man accused of using poodle as weapon"
   <http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2005/01/13/897466-ap.html>
"Prosecutors are seeking a new psychiatric exam for a man accused of swinging
 a poodle to fend off a sheriff's deputy during a traffic stop"

4. "German student eats evidence"
   <http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1130603.html>
"A German student is facing charges after eating up all of a forged document
 except the part that contained his address"

5. "Naked bid to beat fine"
   <http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/10/20/1097951771593.html>
"A woman in Estonia, pulled over by police on suspicion of driving while
 drunk, tried to get out of her fine by performing an impromptu striptease
 that was captured on police video"

6. "Potty-mouth man can't fool science"
   <http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2005/03/30/976892-sun.html>
"An allegedly drunk driver with a taste for trickery failed to foil a police
 breathalyzer machine after stuffing his mouth full of feces"