Germany or Florida?

[Davydave]

Guess if this happened in Germany or Florida.


Story 1: A 13-year-old girl faces traffic charges on her driving record years before she's old enough to legally drive.
Police said the teenager is charged with careless driving after taking her father's SUV to a grocery store with her siblings.

The girl crashed the sports utility vehicle into a tree. Her father also faces charges in the accident.

She and her 14-year-old brother suffered minor injuries and were taken to hospital. Her 8-year old sister was not injured in the crash.

Police said the girl told investigators she was driving the SUV with one foot on the gas pedal and the other foot on the brake pedal.

Records show the girl's father gave her permission to take her brother and sister to the food store.

As the girl neared the parking lot, she lost control of the SUV and crashed through a fence. The vehicle then struck a tree.

Officials said her brother jumped out of the vehicle and ran home.

Police said the girl faces a charge of driving without a license.

Her father faces a charge of allowing an unauthorized driver to drive a motor vehicle.

Germany or Florida?

[Davydave]

Authorities say a man took one last swig of alcohol while waiting to take a sobriety test.

Police officers stopped the61-year-old after noticing his car swerve three times. He said he'd been drinking and agreed to a sobriety test.

But first, a police officer said he watched the man drink from a cup and toss it under the passenger seat. According to a police report, the cup smelled strongly of alcohol.

The man refused a breath test. He has been charged with DUI.

Germany or Florida?

[Davydave]

A postal worker has decided to marry his 15-year-old black and white cat Cecilia because she may not have long to live.

Cecilia has such a trusting nature, the postal worker told the paper. Between us there is an inner bond, a harmony of hearts, its unique.

The two met some 10 years ago when he was vacationing. The love between them was so strong that when the 39-year-old, realized that his asthmatic and overweight feline friend would likely die soon, he decided to make it official.

Dressed in a tuxedo with a top hat, the groom held his bride, who wore a tiny wedding gown. The ceremony was complete with flowers, a wedding march, vows and a kiss.

Germany or Florida?

[Davydave]

A couple of freshly baked parents got quite a shock this week when they discovered a gun while cleaning the second-hand stroller they'd bought in an online auction.

The nine-millimeter pistol was not a plastic toy model. It was loaded with non-baby-proof bullets.

Police admitted they were puzzled over the circumstances surrounding the oddly located weapon. They searched the home of the 39-year-old seller, who wasn't able to offer any clues to the case. There was no word on whether his own kids were armed.

The buggy, however, had been parked unused in the basement for three years. It is most likely that someone secretly slipped the weapon into the pram pocket during that time -- either a dangerous offender looking for an innocent way to dispose of the crime weapon, or perhaps it was the seller's three-year-old son.

Germany or Florida?

[Davydave]

After 40 years in the business, the Restaurant chef and general manager has seen a lot of octopus but never anything this... uh, leggy.

He was getting ready to do his octopus pickling Thursday when one creature among hundreds caught his attention.

There was just something odd about it. Then counted its legs three times. Each time came up with nine.

"I was like totally, no way!"

He carried the creature through the restaurant, asking, "Tell me a I don't have an octopus with nine legs."

Germany or Florida?

[Davydave]

A manhunt is under way for a convicted drug dealer who escaped by mailing himself out of jail.

The 42-year-old man who was serving a seven-year sentence had been making stationery with other prisoners destined for delivery to stores.

At the end of his shift, the inmate climbed into a cardboard box and was taken out of prison by express courier. His whereabouts are still unknown.

The chief warden of the jail remarked this was an embarrassing incident.

Germany or Florida?

[Davydave]

Authorities say a 55-year-old woman died alone in a bedroom of her home after locking herself in the room for several weeks for a lengthy religious fast.

The woman's husband told the paper he didn't check on his wife because she felt she was doing what God called her to do and he wanted to respect her privacy.

Germany or Florida?

[Davydave]

Newly released notes and audio recordings left behind by a woman who shot her son and then took her own life leave little doubt that she planned the attack.

In rambling messages to family, friends, police and the owners of the gun range she chose for Sunday's fatal shooting, said the murder-suicide was the only way to save her son, her family and the world from violence and eternal damnation.

God decreed it, she wrote in documents released Tuesday.

Germany or Florida?

[Davydave]

A young man's creative marriage proposal apparently triggered several UFO reports.

Police say several people called Wednesday night to alert them to strange lights floating above the sleepy town.

It turns out the lights were 50 paper lanterns sent aloft by a 29-year-old man proposing marriage to his girlfriend.

Neither the man nor the 27-year-old woman were identified.

However, police report that the woman did say "Yes."

Germany or Florida?

[Davydave]

A desperate housewife called police after a friend chatted to her for 30 hours - non-stop.

Once they started talking, her pal "would not shut up" and kept it up all through the night and the next day.

Germany or Florida?

[Davydave]

A Florida woman said her love handles saved her life when she was shot entering a bar.

She said she heard two pops when she walked the bar early Saturday. The 35-year-old then felt pain and saw blood on her hand after she grabbed her left side.

The gunman was aiming for a man who escaped with a bullet hole in his down jacket.

The suspect remains at large.

"I could have been dead. They said my love handles saved my life."

She also told the newspaper that she had been "hollering" that she wanted to lose weight. She now said "I want to be as big as I can if it's going to stop a bullet."

Germany or Florida?

[Davydave]

Chocolate milk fell from the pants of a 27-year-old woman as she was being placed in the back of a patrol car, according to a police department arrest report.

On Feb. 8, a loss prevention officer noticed the woman concealing cosmetic items picked from store aisles in her purse, the report said. After a police officer arrived on the scene, the woman was crying and yelling profanities.

The woman asked if she could just go to court instead of going to jail, and the officer handcuffed her and told her she was under arrest, the report said. When she sat down in the back of the patrol car, a cold bottle of chocolate milk fell out of her pants.

The woman told the officer she had a second beverage on her, according to the report. While wearing handcuffs, she retrieved a bottle of chocolate milk from inside her pants.

Germany or Florida?

[Davydave]

Police closed down a sweet shop after discovering the owner was selling chocolates and lollipops laced with hallucinogenic mushrooms and marijuana.

"In the shop we found 120 pieces of magic mushroom chocolate and countless cannabis lollipops," said police, who confiscated around 70 sachets containing various drugs, about 20 marijuana joints, a range of pills and some jars of drug-laced honey.

Police said one customer, who appeared intoxicated, was arrested after trying to buy a bag of hallucinogenic mushrooms from an officer in the shop.

Germany or Florida?

[dave nz]

Florida

[mark12]

Originally Posted by Davydave

A Florida woman said her love handles saved her life when she was shot entering a bar.

She said she heard two pops when she walked the bar early Saturday. The 35-year-old then felt pain and saw blood on her hand after she grabbed her left side.

The gunman was aiming for a man who escaped with a bullet hole in his down jacket.

The suspect remains at large.

"I could have been dead. They said my love handles saved my life."

She also told the newspaper that she had been "hollering" that she wanted to lose weight. She now said "I want to be as big as I can if it's going to stop a bullet."

Germany or Florida?

I'm going with Florida on this one.