ONE FOR THE ROAD The Kerry, Ireland, county council voted in January to let some people drive drunk. The councillors reasoned that in the county’s isolated regions, some seniors live alone and need the camaraderie of the pub, but fear a DUI arrest on the way home. The councillors thus empowered police to issue DUI permits to those targeted drivers. Besides, reasoned the … [Read more...] about Great TSA Finds and Redneck Chronicles and Tax Dodging Tax Collectors
December
Lockless Jails and MacGyver Spiders and Bad Grooming Injuries
MONEY WELL SPENT “Fulton Jail Will Get Working Cell Locks,” read the Dec. 19 Atlanta Journal-Constitution headline. The county commission serving Atlanta had finally voted to break a longstanding 3-3 tie that prevented buying new jailhouse locks–even while knowing that inmates could jimmy the old ones at will and roam the facilities, threatening and assaulting suspects and … [Read more...] about Lockless Jails and MacGyver Spiders and Bad Grooming Injuries
Colon With a View and Least Competent Criminals and Why God Wants You To Burn Oil
COLON WITH A VIEW The usual 20,000 or so visitors every year to Belgium’s Verbeke Foundation art park have the option (365 of them, anyway) to spend the night inside the feature attraction: a 20-foot-long, 6-foot-high polyester replica of a human colon created by Dutch designer Joep Van Lieshout. At one end, of course, another body part is replicated (and gives the installation … [Read more...] about Colon With a View and Least Competent Criminals and Why God Wants You To Burn Oil