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More evidence that drinking is the cornerstone of weird news: In Reno a retired police officer was arrested on suspicion of DUI in May after he pulled into a gas station and attempted to withdraw money from a gas pump, as if it were an ATM. Also in May a drawbridge operator in Saint Pete Beach, Florida, was fired for drinking on the job after he opened the bridge without warning, forcing a car to leap the gap. And again in May a 24-year-old man in Ottawa partying with two friends leaped from a roof into a Dumpster and landed, seat-first, on a piece of wood studded with nails.
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Police in El Cerrito, California, arrested David Hill, 18, in April, for carjacking. According to police, the victim was a man he had met earlier in the day while in line at the Department of Motor Vehicles. All the victim had to do was go to the DMV office and select the carjacker’s photo from among that day’s applications. And Joey Donnel Simmons, 29, was sentenced in March to 30 years in prison by a Houston judge for the armed robbery of taxi drivers. Simmons came to the attention of the police when he and his accomplice walked into a station house to inquire about the reward posted for catching the robbers.
