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Take for example this interesting little news story coming from North Dakota:

Police get calls about drunken drivers all the time, but rarely do they come from the alleged offender.

A 17-year-old girl in Bismarck, North Dakota, called 911 on New Year's Eve to report herself driving under the influence. Police Lieutenant Randy Ziegler says he has never heard of such a thing happening before. The girl told authorities her location shortly before midnight Wednesday and officers found her in a parked car near downtown.

She failed a sobriety test and was arrested for failing to have control of her vehicle while intoxicated.

"Her keys were in her purse and she was parked," Ziegler said. "She did tell us that she had been driving around for hours."

I don't know whether to laugh at her for calling the cops on herself or applaud her for being smart enough to call the cops on herself. To me there seems to be something missing in this little story.

Seems someone with a major shoe fetish caused a whole lot of problems on a Florida highway this past Friday:

State troopers are looking for a charity to take thousands of shoes that were dumped on a Miami expressway, tying up rush hour traffic. Lt. Pat Santangelo says the Florida Highway Patrol received a call about the shoes Friday morning. Santangelo says he's not sure where the shoes came from - there were no signs of a crash and no one stopped to claim them.


Talk about being completely silly:

An 89-year-old Cincinnati-area woman arrested for confiscating the neighbour kid's football is now suing the boy's parents.

Edna Jester filed a lawsuit in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court claiming she has suffered emotional distress because footballs and other playthings belonging to her next-door neighbours keep landing in her yard.

In October, Jester refused to return a football, was taken to the Blue Ash police station and charged with petty theft. The prosecutor later dropped the case.

The lawsuit against parents Paul and Kelly Tanis seeks unspecified monetary damages.

Kelly Tanis calls the suit "very silly" but says she and her husband also worry because they have five children and can't afford a lawyer.