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Man Pays $1 Ticket From 1946

PALM HARBOR, Fla. - William Fogarty doesn't understand the fuss. He just forgot to pay a parking ticket. When he finally realized it, the 86-year-old retiree made good and mailed in a money order, to pay a $1 ticket he got 60 years ago.


Fogarty got the ticket in Norfolk, Va., in May 1946. Soon after, he bought a $1 money order to pay the fine but forgot to send it in. About a month ago, as he was looking through a box of collectibles from his Navy days, Fogarty discovered a wallet with the money order inside.

So he wrote a letter to the Norfolk Police Department and included the money order.

"At my age, when I go out of here, I don't want to owe anyone a dime," he told the St. Petersburg Times.

Fogarty's money order will not be cashed, Norfolk police Officer Chris Amos said. Instead, it will be framed and displayed in the department's museum. "It's one of those restoring your faith in mankind things," Amos said.

This guy is definitely old school. The new school would not have paid it after that many years. The cops were good not to charge interest!!!







Cops quickly find stolen doughnut truck

Annoyed man takes vehicle after failing to hitch ride; 30 mph chase ensues

RICHLAND, Wash. - A stolen truck full of doughnuts?

Better believe Tri-Cities police were on that in a hurry. Moments after the theft of the Viera's Bakery van was reported early Friday in Kennewick, police issued an all-points bulletin.

A Benton County sheriff's deputy quickly spotted the truck. After a chase at 30 to 35 mph, Richland police got it to stop and arrested the driver. Still intact was the entire load of glazed, sugar and cream doughnuts, as well as apple fritters and bear claws.

"In 24 years in law enforcement I've never had a call like that," Richland police Capt. Randy Barnes said.

"It kind of sticks out, a doughnut truck," Kennewick police Sgt. Ken Lattin said.

Now there's a surprise - the cops quickly spotted the doughnut truck. Well yeah, they are trained professionals you know. They can spot glazed, sugar and cream doughnuts, as well as apple fritters and bear claws from miles away!!! The question is will all those doughnuts still be in the evidence vault when it is time for the trial?








Cobb County Police Recruit Class Fired for Cheating

MARIETTA, Ga. -- Cobb County Police dismissed an entire class of 20 recruits yesterday after they were accused of cheating on a test at the police academy.

The county's public safety director, Mickey Lloyd, says an instructor caught two recruits comparing answers during a driving exam. Lloyd says investigators learned that the entire class had formed a pact that none of them would fail their classes.


The answer they were comparing was which is the best: glazed, sugar, or cream doughnuts, apple fritters or bear claws.










Speeder stops to help trooper chasing him

Officer crashes in car chase reaching 120 miles per hour; no citation issued

GREAT FALLS, Mont. - A state Highway Patrol officer who crashed while trying to catch up to a speeding motorist got some aid from an unlikely source — the man he was chasing.

The patrolman, Frank Nowakowski, was uninjured in the crash Wednesday. Nowakowski was nearing the end of his shift along Interstate 15 when a vehicle sped by at more than 95 mph in the opposite lanes. Nowakowski crossed the median and took off after the driver, reaching speeds of 120 mph in an effort to catch up.

Nowakowski said he had just decided to end the pursuit for safety reasons when one of the rear tires of his cruiser blew out, sending his patrol car careering off the highway and through a barbed-wire fence. “This happened in a heartbeat,” he said. “I had no idea.”

Moments later, the man he had been trying to stop, whom the patrol identified only as a Bozeman man, was at his side at the crash scene. ‘It was very heartfelt.’

Trooper David Braggs said the driver apparently was unaware that Nowakowski was trying to pull him over, but saw a large cloud of dust in his rearview mirror, knew there had been an accident and turned around to help.

Now, here's my point. The speeder was driving safely, but was speeding. He was aware of everything going on around him so much so he checked his rear view mirror on a regular basis. He also had the compassion to make a u-turn and offer assistance to the patrolman who obviously had non-speed-rated tires on his car for some reason. You can be a speeder and a safe and courteous driver, so why the fuss when someone like that wants you to move from the left lane so he can pass? The officer put the spare on the patrol car and, wouldn't you know, it was a doughnut spare!!!







This next story ties into the police stories simply because a slang name for a cop is a bear, so my bear story works!

For discriminating bear, night of dinner theater

Tahoe bruin dines on salmon, cherry ice cream at Shakespeare festival

INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. - A bear with better taste than his or her cousins dined last week on salmon, tri-tip and cherry ice cream — all in the deserted food court at the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival at Sand Harbor.

The choices of surf and turf — and the Bard — were more discriminating than those of the bear that settled last month for cold pizza and an even colder beer it found in a convertible near the south shore casino area.

The foray also was more successful than that of the bear that wandered into a delivery area last week at MontBleu Casino Resort & Spa on the south shore but left empty-pawed.

Nevada Department of Wildlife biologist Carl Lackey was called to the scene and left one of his bear traps but wasn't real optimistic. "I put old doughnuts in the trap, and he just seems to walk by it and head for the refrigerators in the food court," Lackey said. "I mean, why eat day-old doughnuts when you can get salmon?"

Lackey said that while the food vendors have locks on the coolers, "They're just bike locks and the bears are strong enough to just flick them off."

Catherine Atack, director of the annual festival, said that having a bear come for dinner is a first. "Nothing like this has happened before and this year, all four of our food vendors have been hit," Atack said. "We even had one bear appear during the show, and the audience was told to stay seated until he was chased away."

And stale doughnuts weren't the only treat the finicky bear snubbed.

"He broke into one of the refrigerators where there was cherry ice cream and vanilla," Atack said. "He ate the cherry and never touched the vanilla."

This bear is definitely a connoisseur of good eats!!!!!!

How big was the salmon?

Could this be a new trend for the cops as well? Pass on the doughnuts for salmon, tri-tip, and cherry ice cream????





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