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32 AMERICAN POLICE BEAT: MAY 2009 Sat-Cat A stray cat seeking a warm spot to relax recently became famous after Long Island, NY police rescued it from a television news truck's rooftop satellite dish. WCBS-TV reporter Jennifer McLogan said other drivers kept honking their horns and waving as her truck trav- eled to a press conference about an arrest in a string of burglaries. Like most media people, she just assumed ev- eryone knew who she was, so she just smiled and waved back. Eventually someone called to McLogan that a cat was on the truck's roof. Nassau County police Detective Sgt. Anthony Re- palone said he thought it was "an April Fools' joke" when the TV crew interrupted his press conference to report a feline in need of assistance. Offi cers freed the black-and- white cat by dismantling a panel of the satellite dish. Gullible W hen you get an e-mail or text message warn- ing that a gang initiation will be happening at a local Wal- Mart and it will involve kill- ing people, you need to pay about as much attention to it as a bigfoot sighting. In the last few months, bogus warn- ings about gang violence at Wal-Mart stores has spread like wildfi re. Different ver- sions have different targets: black women, white women, children or men. Like most of the stuff on the internet, it's a lot of crap. But there's nothing like a good urban myth, and the mass e-mail- ing is being taken seriously by a lot of people. Police departments across country have been fl ooded with 911 calls, and many were forced to issue press releases telling people that these gang alerts are hoaxes. DUI on a stool I n Ohio, a 28-year-old man has been charged with drunken driving after crash- ing his motorized bar stool, Ohio authorities said. Police in Newark, 30 miles east of Columbus, responded to a report of a crash with injuries. At the scene, they found a man who had wrecked a barstool powered by a deconstructed lawn mower. Police released the 911 tapes, revealing the calm exchange between the driver's friend and the dispatcher. "I got a friend who wrecked a bar stool," the caller said. The dispatcher asked whether he hit his head inside the bar, the friend replied, "Um, no, he was riding the bar stool ... a motorized bar stool." Kile Wygle, the barstool rider, was hospitalized for minor injuries. In an interview Wygle told the reporter, "I drank quite a bit." He told an offi cer at the hospital that he had consumed 15 beers. Danger Burger T h e We s t M i c h i g a n Whitecaps say they have no plans to put a warning label on an enormous new hamburger they're selling this season. A vegetarian group had requested that the monster burger come with a warning. Susan Levin, a staff dietitian for the Washington- based Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, sent a letter to the Grand Rapids minor-league team on Tuesday. She's asking that the 4,800-calorie burger Circle number 139 on the Reader Service Card. TurtleSkin SoftPlate IIIA body armor is engineered to a higher standard of safety, performance and durability.This means a body armor package that provides significant tactical advantages without sacrificing your safety, comfort, flexibility, or concealability. Science for Life. turtleskin.com 888.477.4675 Turt Tur urt engi eng ngi perf per erf body bod ody acti acti afet afe fet Sci Sci turtleskin.com Performance Without Compromise

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