Talk about hilarious. I guess people in the Twin Cities are just that lucky.
A wrong turn during the morning commute had an unexpected bonus for a Mendota Heights man.
Dane McKenzie says he couldn’t believe it when he got lost taking the back roads to his Minneapolis job on Monday, only to find his 2006 Chrysler Sebring — two days after it was stolen from his driveway.
McKenzie says he was trying to avoid congestion on Interstate 94 yesterday morning when he made a wrong turn on Larepenteur Avenue. He then saw a familiar looking Sebring parked in a strip mall.
After confirming by license plate that the car was his, he phoned police and parked nearby. A man came out of the mall and drove the car away, and McKenzie followed him to a Maplewood apartment building.
Police arrested the driver of the vehicle on site.
Did I mention that’s why I never want to live in a big city? Or maybe that’s why you drive an old car.
Man Makes Wrong Turn, Finds His Stolen Car [wcco.com - Digg It]
As you may have heard, a tragedy occurred yesterday in the Twin Cities. The I-35W Bridge collapsed.
The entire span of an interstate bridge suddenly broke into sections and collapsed into the Mississippi River during evening bumper-to-bumper traffic Wednesday, sending vehicles, concrete and twisted metal crashing into the water. Hometown newspaper The Star-Tribune reported that nine people had been confirmed dead. The Associated Press put the number at seven so far. Authorities said the death toll was expected to climb.
Asked about the possibility of finding more survivors, Fire Chief Jim Clack said, “The likelihood is fairly slim.”
“This will be a very tragic night when this is over,” Mayor R.T. Rybak said.
Another news source has said the bridge was inspected by MNDOT (MN Dept. Of Transportation) in 2006 - the report showed hairline cracks in the understructure.
My Dad is in Minneapolis right now. He’s okay (in fact, he was no where near the bridge), but, none-the-less, it scared me shitless. Please Pray for the victims and their families today.
9 thought dead as Minneapolis bridge collapses [MSNBC]
How Ironic. Over 500 people are sick after a poisoning outbreak at Taste of Chicago.
As of noon today, 529 people had called claiming symptoms of salmonella poisoning, according to a news release.
Fifty cases have been confirmed as salmonellosis. Of the 50, 36 have been identified as salmonella heidelberg, one of the more common forms of salmonella poisoning in the United States, the release said.
Seventeen people have been hospitalized.
Officials said the pace of reported illnesses has slowed since they first went public with the outbreak last week and encouraged anyone with symptoms to report them.
Officials said last week they had determined that at least one—and perhaps the only—source of the bacterial poisoning was a dish of hummus with herbs, tomato and cucumber and ordered Pars Cove to stop serving hummus while a full investigation proceeds.
Officials have also cautioned that the outbreak may not be as widespread as it seems, as symptoms cannot be tied to salmonella without laboratory testing.
Let it be documented that if any of you reading ever want to invite me to this event, I now have a way out - a reference to this article.
More than 500 illnesses reported after Taste Of Chicago [Chicago Tribune via Consumerist]
“Are you the police?” “No, ma’am, we’re musicians.”
Another crime that can humiliate you before you get arrested. Ask Robert Lane.
BOHEMIA, N.Y. — There were flashing lights atop his SUV and what appeared to be a police badge in his hand, but it was the man he tried to pull over who was the real police detective.
Robert Lane, 25, was arrested Tuesday on charges of criminal impersonation and aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, Suffolk County police said. Lane was driving an SUV fitted with flashing lights when he tried to stop the off-duty New York police detective on a highway on Long Island, Suffolk police said. They said Lane told investigators the detective had cut him off.
The detective got suspicious when Lane drove up alongside him, identified himself as an officer and flashed a small police badge, Suffolk police said.
Oops.
Associated Press - 7/11/07 [via Dvorak]
