
WEIRD BUT TRUE
This is not a record you’d really want to set.
A Rhode Island man was busted for DWI with a blood-alcohol level of .491 – six times the legal limit and the highest ever recorded in the state for someone not dead.
Health officials say a .4 is considered “comatose” and a .5 fatal. “Our only assumption could be that the person has a serious alcohol problem,” police said.
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Sometimes, even God pops a wheelie.
An Indiana pastor tried to demonstrate to his church the concept of unity by driving a motorbike up to the pulpit – except he overshot the stage and crashed into the front row of seats.
No parishioners were hurt, but the pastor broke his wrist – and his pride.
His wife said he was riding the cycle to show how he “would become one with the bike.”
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It’s never off-season for Santa.
Nearly 140 St. Nicholases gathered in Denmark for their annual, three-day World Santa Claus Congress.
Most came from Scandinavia, but others came from Russia, Japan and the United States. Events included sleigh racing, climbing down chimneys and a bicycle parade.
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Goodness, gracious, great balls of fire.
Two practical jokers in San Luis Obispo, Calif., decided to mess with their passed-out drinking buddy by setting his crotch on fire. The man suffered second-degree burns to his testicles.
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A pair of Chinese restaurant owners never seemed to stop working.
So when a reporter finally asked the husband-and-wife team how they managed to run their busy restaurant 21 hours a day, they revealed that they are actually both identical twins – and split time with their look-alike siblings.


