Miami, FL motorist Alvin Sims didnt notice that his truck had
smacked into a utility pole and his passenger was dead until the
police stopped his car.

Donna Richardson, 29, was hanging her head out of the window of her
boy friends 1993 Chevrolet truck early Saturday – she was vomiting –
when the truck suddenly veered. Her head slammed a pole and she died
instantly, police said Monday. Sims, 36. kept driving.

Metro-Dade police said when an officer stopped the truck several
miles later – its right mirror and antenna were damaged. Sims told
police that he was looking for a hospital because his passenger was
sick.

Apparently, he thought he hit a puddle and did not see that he had
killed her.

Two members of the Lothian and Borders traffic police were out on the
Berwickshire moors with a radar gun recently, happily engaged in
apprehending speeding motorists, when their equipment suddenly locked-up
completely with an unexpected reading of well over 300 mph. The mystery
was explained seconds later as a low flying Harrier hurtled over their heads.
The boys in blue, upset at the damage to their radar gun, put in a
complaint to the RAF, but were somewhat chastened when the RAF pointed out
that the damage might well have been more severe. The Harriers
target-seeker had locked on to the enemy radar and triggered an
automatic retaliatory air-to-surface missile attack. Luckily(?) the
Harrier was operating unarmed.

Jacques LeFevrier left nothing to chance when he decided to commit
suicide. He stood at the top of a tall cliff and tied a noose around
his neck. He tied the other end of the rope to a large rock. He drank
some poison and set fire to his clothes. He even tried to shoot
himself at the last moment.

He jumped and fired the pistol. The bullet missed him and cut through
the rope above him. Free of the threat of hanging, he plunged into
the sea. The sudden dunking extinguished the flames and made him
vomit the poison. He was dragged out of the water by a kind fisherman
and was taken to hospital, where he died … of exposure!

Taking Amateur Night Too Far: In Betulia, Colombia, an annual festival
in November includes five days of amateur bullfighting. This year, no
bull was killed, but dozens of matadors were injured, including one gored
in the head and one Bobbittized. Said one participant, Its just one bull
against [a town of] a thousand morons.