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Driving Under An Influence?

Sex while driving punishable in Norway
Source: UPI LAKSEVAG, Norway (UPI) -- A Norwegian man had his license revoked after police finally stopped his swerving car and learned he was having sex while driving. Police in Laksevag, near Bergen, received a call early Monday about a suspicious vehicle swerving and driving at irregular speeds, Aftenposten reported. The driver ignored flashing lights and sirens as police pursued him through town and officers observed "a fair amount of activity in the car," Police Lt. Tore Salvesen told the Bergens Tidende newspaper. When the vehicle finally pulled over, officers said both front seats were laid flat and the driver admitted he and his female companion were "unable to contain their lust." Apart from the instant license suspension, the driver will face several other charges, the report said.

Bad News For Plumbers!

Dickie fights posterior exposure
FORT WORTH, Texas (UPI) -- Fort Worth, Texas, pants manufacturer Williamson-Dickie has announced plans for a line of jeans designed to prevent rear-end exposure. The company said it will drop the waistband on its Dickies work jeans by a few inches and add extra room in the seat of the pants, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported Tuesday. "When you wear a jean and the waist doesn't hit you in the right place and you're carrying a few extra pounds, it can slip down," said Jon Ragsdale, Williamson-Dickie's vice president of marketing. The announcement has been welcomed by many forced to bend over in their jobs, including plumbers, a profession notorious for exposure problems. "We bend over a lot, so I guess people happen to notice it a lot more with us," said plumber Roy Wagner, of White Settlement, Ind. "It's a waist issue." Ragsdale said the issue does not create much discussion at the company. "We don't talk about that too much anymore here," Ragsdale said. However, he said: "If there's anything we can do to beautify America, we're in favor of doing it."


I'm Watching This One Too!

U.S. cigar smokers watch Castro's health
The medical condition of Cuban leader Fidel Castro has become of great interest to U.S. cigar smokers, hoping for an end to a trade embargo. A week ago, Castro was hospitalized for gastrointestinal surgery, and he ceded power to his younger brother, Raul. In Chicago, Mark Thomas, owner of the Blue Havana cigar shop, said hopes among cigar smokers soared that the political change could bring about the eventual end of the U.S. embargo on Cuban goods enacted by the Kennedy administration in the early 1960s. However, Rhoda Bogardus, co-owner of the Hubbard & State Cigar Shop was less enthusiastic, saying if the embargo ended tomorrow, Cuba doesn't have the capacity to supply the U.S. market. True Cuban cigars have what aficionados call a distinguishable full-bodied aroma. "With Cubans, when you open the box, it can smell like a wet diaper," Bogardus said. While illegal, Cuban cigars sell for between $20 and $25 each in the United States, but experts estimate 90 percent of them are counterfeit.


Bee Careful!

Angry bees set off by car crash
Source: UPI FORT WAYNE, Ind. (UPI) -- A horde of very angry bees turned a routine single-car crash dangerous at Fort Wayne, Ind., attacking driver and rescuers with equal ferocity. Jacqueline Cossairt of Markle, Ind., lost control of her GMC Envoy sport utility vehicle on a gravel covered road and struck a hollow tree, rousing as many as 100,000 bees by some estimates. By the time the volunteer fire department arrived, the car was covered by a black cloud of insects. Fire Chief Kent Gilbert said the bees attacked everyone, turning a 10-minute extrication into an agonizing 45-minute chore that sent 10 people to the hospital. Gilbert told the Fort Wayne (Ind.) Journal Gazette he was stung at least 50 times.