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It seems that the local police just swiped our gimmick, Carin. The Waterloo Regional Police Service is taking a festive approach to spreading a message of safety this holiday season. Two holiday jingles – one about texting and driving and the other highlighting the decision to not drink and drive – have been set to …
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Some people really don’t do drunk well. It would seem that Connie Frances Perris might just be one of them. And in what may be a case of one relating to the other, she doesn’t appear to be so hot at burglary, either. After breaking into one apartment and finding it occupied, she decided to …
Noel Smith must have had himself an evening. So much so that when it was time to head home and turn in, he forgot where home was. Carol Carr was home with her teenage daughters on August 1 when the girls began screaming, saying that Smith walked into their bedroom and then walked out. Smith …
I’m long past the point of being way overdue to update my CPR certifications, but one of the things I do remember from the long forgotten classes I took is the part where they tell you to assess the situation as carefully as you can in the short amount of time you have to react. …
Here’s a sentence you don’t hear very often, I hope. Drunken Yahtzee argument. According to documents filed Tuesday with the charges, Traill County sheriff’s deputies were dispatched about 2:34 a.m. De. 18 to 120 4th Ave. SE in Mayville on a report of a scared boy who called to report a domestic dispute that became …
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Bad: Showing up drunk for your job interview. Worse: Getting into a fight with your prospective boss when he notices. Worse than that: Stabbing him when it looks like he’s going to win. El Cajon police say the applicant, Jose Lopez, showed up drunk to a job interview at 207 South Sunshine Avenue. When the …
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We’ve used this before, but it seems appropriate. I realize that alcohol was a factor here, but I cannot in good faith and conscience place the blame squarely on its shoulders this time. For while it does indeed make some people do some very stupid things, I refuse to believe that booze and booze alone …
I’m sure I could find more were I to dig, but for now let’s say that Mashara Mefford has 2 major strikes against her. Not only did she think it a good idea to break into a car that just happened to be one of those marked police ones, but she also seems to be …
Most news headlines are pretty quick and to the point, but in the case of William Nicolas O’Donnell I kind of understand why they may have felt it necessary to title this one Women aged under 40 banned from Northern Territory man’s farm after he threatened backpacker with a knife and forced one to watch …
When you’re as drunk as Logan Shaulis appears to have been, generally you’re doing your best to avoid DUI checkpoints, not parking your car across a highway, pretending you’re a state trooper and pulling people over because you’ve decided that you *are* the DUI checkpoint. Troopers say 19-year-old Logan Shaulis, of Somerset, parked his vehicle …