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Animal lover Courtland Page Johnson, 30, was driving down Golden Gate Parkway in Naples, Florida, when other motorists noticed his PT Cruiser swerving from side to side. It banged into roadside barricades (mangling eight of them and scattering sandbags) before stopping. Witnesses saw Johnson leap from his car, wrestling with a ropelike thing around his neck. It turned out to be Johnson’s four-foot boa constrictor. After a brief struggle, he untangled himself from his pet’s embrace and bolted. Police caught up with Johnson later at his house and placed him under arrest—cautiously—for leaving the scene of an accident.
Spitting Image
Driving her Chevy Malibu on U.S. 71 one day, Kansas City motorist Robbin Doolin, 31, opened her car door to spit. “I leaned too far,” she confessed to officers. And she landed on her butt. Not one to be deterred by a tumble, Doolin hopped up and, according to an amazed witness, chased her car down an embankment and into a construction site, where she finally caught up with the runaway.
Life in the Fast Lane
Greg Pringle and his carpool pal, Tillie, are standing on Sheridan Boulevard and U.S. Highway 36, waving to motorists. It’s a March morning in Denver. Pringle and Tillie are serving their four-hour sentence of public humiliation for violating the rules of the HOV (high-occupancy vehicle) lanes. Tillie is wearing a sign around her neck that says “HOV Lane Is Not for Dummies.” More often you’d find her kind, dressed in the latest fashions, in boutique windows across America. Tillie is a mannequin. A judge, garbed in basic black, hadn’t been amused by her carpooling. His punishment worked. “From here on out,” Pringle now says, “I’m walking the straight and narrow road.” As for Tillie, she was auctioned off on eBay for $15,000. Pringle gave the money to charity.
Driver Backs Into Own Car, Sues
When Curtis Gokey backed up his Lodi City, California, dump truck, he heard the usual warning beeps. But he didn’t expect to hear the crunch of metal—and certainly not that of his own car. Gokey admitted he was to blame for the accident, but he did what any rights-conscious citizen would do: He sued city hall. For $3,600. The city refused to pay. So his wife, Rhonda, took up the cause, suing Lodi because a city vehicle and employee had smashed her car. The city attorney contended that though a spouse can sue for divorce, one spouse can’t sue the other “for damage to community property.” Rhonda upped the ante to $4,800. “I’m not as nice as my husband,” she said. The city council denied her claim.
Hold the Presses!
In Clinton Township, Michigan, a new delivery driver, Carleen Jordan, was hauling newspapers to customers. As she pulled up to one store, she inadvertently threw the gear into reverse. When she got out of her truck, it took off, and she ran after it—failing to catch up. For 20 minutes, the circling truck took out various mailboxes and bashed a Mustang and a pickup truck. Police eventually arrived on the scene and stopped the merry-go-round with spike strips. The incident was caught on tape and made the nightly news. Another example of the news making news.
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