FLORIDA:  Fall guy or fall dog? A motorist arrested for allegedly driving while impaired told police his dog was behind the wheel. Scott Garrett, 56, was driving his 2005 Nissan near Port St. Lucie when an officer pulled him over for swerving and found an open bottle of spiced rum, said police. However, Garrett continued to maintain that his dog was doing the driving. His dog was not charged – but he was.

GEORGIA: Hello
911…
Georgia police recently issued an arrest warrant for William Baccus, 62,
who called police more than 100 times over the past three years – to ask them
to bring him milk, his cell phone, a TV remote control, and many other silly
non-emergency requests, Cobb County police said. Mr. Baccus faces a charge of
abuse of the 911 emergency system.

MASSACHUSETTS: The
old two for one outcome…
It has been reported that one DWI arrest turned
into two when a tow-truck driver dispatched to haul off an allegedly drunk
woman’s car was arrested on the same charges. 
Patricia O’Donnell, 51, was stopped by a state trooper one weekend in Hyannis
in July 2018, was charged with DWI. Then Brandon Fenton, 25, headed out to pick
up the vehicle and was also charged with DWI after he was spotted swerving on
the road by the same the same trooper.

MICHIGAN: Some
say he is now in the doghouse.
It has been reported that a man put his two
German shepherds in a car wash because they were covered with feces. As a
result, dog lovers are “barking mad.” Marshall Bullard blasted the dogs with
scalding hot water from a high-pressure hose at Wash Stop Auto Wash in the town
of Warren, outraging animal-rights advocates. Bullard said he rescued the
filthy dogs from a neglectful owner earlier in the day. The dogs were taken to
a vet and were pronounced unharmed.

MINNESOTA: Hell,
hath no fury like…
When a man rejected Panhia Vang’s marriage proposal, she
raced off in his Hummer at speeds of 80 mph – with the man clinging to the
roof. After he fell off he was rushed to a hospital with multiple broken bones,
police said. Vang, allegedly drunk, was charged with car theft and criminal
vehicle operation resulting in substantial bodily harm.

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