The state Supreme Court ruled that Pennsylvania's drunken driving law can't be enforced against people on horseback, a decision that inspired the dissenting justice to wax poetic. The court ruled Wednesday in a case against two men in Mercer County in 2002. Riders Keith Travis, 41, and Richard Noel, 49, were charged with drunken driving along with a man driving a pickup who allegedly rear-ended the horse Travis was riding away from a bar on a dark country road. All three men failed field sobriety tests, police said, but a judge threw out the charges against Noel and Travis after they argued that the word "vehicles" in the state's drunken-driving law doesn't apply to horses.
Justice Michael Eakin, who is fond of writing rhyming opinions, summed up the lone dissent with two stanzas mimicking the theme song of "Mister Ed" — a 1960s TV sitcom about a talking horse:
"A horse is a horse, of course, of course,
but the Vehicle Code does not divorce
its application from, perforce,
a steed as my colleagues said.
"'It's not vague,' I'll say until I'm hoarse,
and whether a car, a truck or horse
this law applies with equal force,
and I'd reverse instead."
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I actually knew someone (co-worker) who was actually convicted of a DUI in the 1980s for riding a horse while drunk. But this is California.
What's odd is that I never saw him drunk at work, and he never had the smell of booze about him. So he wasn't a chronic drunk...
Willie L. If I knew where he was I would tell him about this!
An Indian man who has vowed to marry 100 times in his life, has found he's on the electoral roll as a female. Udayanath Dakhina Ray has married 90 times so far and is now appealing to authorities in Orissa to correct their error. He says the mistake deprived him of a right to vote in the state and national elections in April, reports Oriya language daily Dharitri. The 80-year-old is particularly upset because being listed as a woman put him at odds with his ambition to marry at least 100 times.
Just means he has to switch targets, as it were.
The mechanic, who also doubles as a doctor, took a vow at a very young age to marry no less than 100 women to prove he could find a wife anytime he wanted after being deserted by his first wife Sibapriya .
"I'll show that brazen hussy!"
He needs a good woman — several of them, I guess — to help with what must be a very complicated profession: "Mukkerjee, that gall bladder's gotta come out. And then your tires need rotated!"
It's reported the father of 29 children claims to be flooded with wedding proposals from women across the world, all of whom want to help him score
... so to speak...
a century of marriages.
Buy this man a plane ticket and let him try for the mile-high club while he's at it.
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The mechanic, who also doubles as a doctor
Plumbing's where the big money it.
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I love the term "walk a mile in someone else's shoes". This man could take the lesson to heart, but he seems fixated on the number of wives he can take as the measurement of his value.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
