Drivers

Priest Protests $115 Parking Ticket While on Job

NEW YORK - A mission of mercy at a hospital turned costly for a priest who violated the 11th Commandment: Thou shalt not park illegally. The Rev. Cletus Forson, of St. Andrew the Apostle Church was ticketed last month when he responded to an emergency call from a parishioner afraid her mother would die without receiving the sacrament of the sick.

"On humanitarian grounds, the law should not be interpreted and applied so stringently that it will prohibit a religious leader from doing his work," the priest said.

Forson said he knew the spot was illegal but he didn't have time to look for a legal spot because he had just received a call from a parishioner desperate to find a priest to administer the sacrament of the sick to her mother. He placed his clergy parking permit on the dashboard and went in.

City Finance Department spokesman Owen Stone stood by the city's decision, saying Forson was parked in an ambulance zone.

"They need to keep those clear," he said. "Blocking that puts lives at risk, that's why the ticket got upheld."

Maybe he figured if he blocked the ambulances there would be more people in need of him to administer the sacrament of the sick so he could do more than one while he was there.

Or maybe like a lot of the Catholic priests, he thought he was above the law!!!!

If you have followed my posts regarding the Catholic Church and their waste of millions, then maybe you wonder as I do why they are complaining about $115.00.










Police Crash Into Suspect Under Surveillance

JERUSALEM - Israeli police tailing a suspected senior underworld figure accidentally crashed into his vehicle.

Police put the suspected criminal under 24-hour surveillance a month ago and the man knew he was being followed, it said.

But Tuesday, a police officer fell asleep at the wheel of his car and crashed into the man's vehicle in the southern city of Ashkelon, slightly injuring him.

If he didn't know he was being followed before, he does now. The suspect must be boring to follow. So boring the cop fell asleep!

These cops sound like Keystone cops. Wait, was it Mel Gibson they were following?











Younger and younger drivers

Van-Driving Tyke Disrupts Traffic

BERLIN - Police investigating a complaint about a van disrupting morning traffic Monday in the German city of Goettingen were surprised to discover a 5-year-old boy behind the wheel.

"He was seemingly intent on experiencing the daily traffic chaos and simply jumped behind the wheel of his dad's Mercedes Vito and went off to explore."

During his short journey, the toddler stalled the van several times in the middle of the road and a passer-by alerted police.

In my 8-1-06 post I reported on a 5-year-old driving a Cadillac Escalade. Man, these kids nowadays have expensive tastes in cars!!! What kind will they want when they are 6 or 7???









What gives the driveway that crunch? Hubby

Napping Arkansas man wakes up, moans when wife turns in to park car

ROGERS, Ark. - A man who fell asleep in his driveway woke up when his wife came home and turned into the driveway to park the car.

Kristine Bolson of Rogers said she drove into her driveway shortly after midnight Tuesday and heard a loud cracking sound.

When she got out of her vehicle, she heard moaning and found her husband, Richard Gonzalez, on the ground near her vehicle. Bolson said she did not initially see her husband in the driveway.

The real story is he was drunk and passed out on the driveway.

Now the question, was she returning home after midnight because she had been out looking for him, and when her light hit the driveway she was blinded by rage and hit the gas instead of the brake? You be the judge!!!





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