ENOUGH IS ENOUGH: “He had no idea he had been involved in an accident,” said St. Petersburg, Fla., police officer Mike Jockers. But Ralph Parker, 93, had hit a pedestrian on a busy street going about 45 mph. The 52-year-old man smashed half-way through Parker’s windshield, and stayed there as Parker kept driving, apparently unaware of the body, until he got to a bridge’s toll plaza, three miles away.The toll taker thought the body on the car was a Halloween prank until Parker stopped to pay the toll. The body slid the rest of the way through the windshield. When police asked Parker where the dead body in his car came from, he said it must have “fallen out of the sky.” Police took Parker’s license from him (it doesn’t expire for five more years) and will ask the motor vehicle department to conduct a competency hearing to revoke it permanently. (St. Petersburg Times)SENTENCE BY JERSEY: Eric James Torpy, 27, was in court to face charges of robbery and shooting with intent to kill. Oklahoma County, Okla., District Judge Ray Elliott announced a plea bargain: Torpy would plead guilty, and would only get 30 years. But Torpy objected, asking if he could have 33 years, instead. That, he explained, was the number on the jersey of his favorite former basketball player, Larry Bird of the Boston Celtics. “We accommodated his request and he was just as happy as he could be,” Judge Elliott said. (Oklahoman) …Unfortunately his first try didn’t work: Kobe Bryant.JUDGES ARE WEIRD, TOO.A Pennsylvania judge was tossed off the bench in 1992 for offering to reduce sentences if defendants let him shampoo their hair. What about the bald guys?Christmas – a sin?We celebrate Christmas Day as the birth of Christ. But in the third century, the Catholic Church considered it a sin to celebrate Jesus’ birth. To try to determine his birth was labeled a sin.All of the above from www.thisistrue.com
