Saturday, January 8, 2011

FUNNY TIOLET

FROGGER

(AP)  CLEMSON, South Carolina - A man has been hospitalized after police in South Carolina say he was hit by a sport utility vehicle while playing a real-life version of the video game "Frogger." Authorities said the 23-year-old man was taken to a hospital in Anderson after he was struck at around 9 p.m. Monday. In the "Frogger" arcade game, players move frogs through traffic on a busy road and through a hazard-filled river. Before he was hit, police say the man had been discussing the game with his friends. Chief Jimmy Dixon says the man yelled "go" and darted into oncoming traffic in the four-lane highway. No charges are expected against the driver. The name of the man who was struck has not been released. He was in stable condition Monday night.

BABY GETS FIRST TICKET

(AP)  LONDONDERRY, N.H. (AP) - Their son wasn't going to wait to be born, so John Coughlin rushed his laboring wife to the hospital. He called 911 when a state trooper tried to pull their car over, and the trooper turned the chase into an escort - then issued him a speeding ticket. Baby Kyle was born six minutes after the Coughlins arrived at the hospital in Manchester on Sept. 18. After that, Coughlin said the trooper congratulated him, then gave him a ticket for hitting 102 mph. A trial is scheduled for Monday and Coughlin is contesting the ticket. "I didn't realize how fast I was going until he gave me the ticket," Coughlin, of Londonderry, said Wednesday on ABC's "Good Morning America." He said he didn't want to plead guilty because "they said I could lose my license." Major Russell Conte said the trooper did the right thing. The speed limit on Interstate 293 was 55 mph, and he contended Coughlin put his wife, unborn child, himself and the public at risk. When Coughlin's wife, Angela, heard about ticket, she said she was shocked. "I thought it would get thrown out," she said.
Obviously he was not exaggerating!! And..it would not be more of a risk to have the baby born along the highway??