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Aug 20 2008 - AP
Police in Wisconsin say a woman celebrated her birthday by helping her teenage son rob two gas stations. Officers in the Milwaukee suburb of Greenfield say the 37-year-old woman acted as the getaway driver while her 17-year-old son robbed the stations...

Aug 3 2008 - AP
Authorities say a truck driver who spilled tons of dirt along a Seattle highway and backed up traffic for hours just really had to go to the bathroom.

Police say the driver was trying to ease the rig to the side of U.S. Highway 2 on Friday...

Jul 5 2008 - AP
Riding a green lawn chair supported by a rainbow array of more than 150 helium-filled party balloons, Kent Couch took off Saturday in a third bid to fly from central Oregon all the way to Idaho.

Couch kissed his wife and kids goodbye, and patted...

Jul 4 2008 - AP
 A 52-year-old Milwaukee-area man has been accused of faking heart attacks to avoid paying restaurant bills and cab fares.

Police say the Waukesha (WAWK'-uh-shaw) man took a cab to a mall Monday and pretended to have a heart attack....

May 23 2008 - AP
A herd of wild boars has thwarted a suspected car thief's getaway in northern Germany.

Police in Schwerin say the 18-year-old abandoned a stolen SUV he was driving Thursday after failing to shake off a chasing patrol car by driving into...

Apr 8 2008 - AP
Police said they easily caught a bank robbery suspect after he had a taxi take him to and from the scene of the crime.

East Point police Captain Russell Popham said officers arrested Marcus Chisholm at his apartment just a few hours after they...

Mar 10 2008 - The Salt Lake Tribune
A man was in critical condition after he tried to flee a cab without paying his fare and stepped in the path of an oncoming car Saturday in Salt Lake City.
    The man, 31, was belligerent and apparently drunk during a ride in a City...

Mar 4 2008 - AP
 A 19-year-old Pasco man is in jail after a police dog sniffed him out of a dog house. When a man called police early Tuesday to report that his car had been stolen, officers around the city began searching for it. They spotted it once and tried...

Feb 15 2008 - AP
A driver who apparently took her work rules very seriously abandoned a bus full of former prisoners along a highway because her hours for the day were over, police said.

The 40 passengers had been paroled or released from the state prison in...

Feb 6 2008 - Reuters
A Romanian train driver leapt aboard a runaway engine to stop it after having left the brake off in a station but was killed when the stunt backfired, railway police said Wednesday.

Ioan Colceriu, 55, was at a train station in the central town...

Jan 23 2008 - Reuters
A British bus company has apologized to a girl who is led around on a leash by her boyfriend and describes herself as a human pet after one of its drivers threw her off a bus.

Tasha Maltby, 19, told British newspapers she was the "pet"...

Jan 8 2008 - Reuters
A Houston-area man was killed in a hunting accident after his dog stepped on a loaded shotgun in the back of a pick-up truck, triggering a blast that pierced the vehicle and the hunter's leg, a local sheriff said.

Perry Price, a 46-year-old...

Jan 3 2008 - AP
A Global Positioning System can tell a driver a lot of things — but apparently not when a train is coming. A computer consultant driving a rental car drove onto train tracks Wednesday using the instructions his GPS unit gave him. A train was barreling...

Oct 18 2007 - Reuters
An Austrian motorist too drunk to change a tire phoned a police emergency number by mistake instead of the breakdown service and wound up losing his license, police said on Thursday.

"He mixed up emergency service numbers," a police...

Oct 1 2007 - News-Record.com
The driver of a tractor trailer found herself jammed up underneath a railroad bridge on East Lindsay Street Monday morning.

Stella Trent was driving eastbound just after 10 a.m. when she attempted to drive under the bridge, according to Greensboro...