Postcards
Divine intervention To help ease the public bickering at Cherokee County, Ga., Commission meetings, representatives of the Cherokee Ministerial Association
- Divine intervention
To help ease the public bickering at Cherokee County, Ga., Commission meetings, representatives of the Cherokee Ministerial Association and local pastors invited the five commissioners to a meeting on the National Day of Prayer and Reconciliation. The fighting had gotten so bad that, at one meeting, Commissioner J.J. Biello pointed toward Chairman Emily Lemcke and yelled, “Lady, I’m going to clean your clock — with facts.”
- Thief hotline
In July, Boston police officer Brian Reaney arrested a man for robbing a woman of her purse, which contained a cellular telephone. To apprehend the man, Reaney called the cell phone and told the man that he was the brother of the victim and wanted the phone back. The man offered to sell it to him for $50, and they set up a meeting. When the man approached the officer’s red Jetta looking for the money, he found a car full of detectives.
- Street wise
In June, a jury in Broward County, Fla., found that a 28-year-old man who was speeding and whose blood-alcohol level was twice the legal limit was only 10 percent responsible for the single-car accident that killed him. The man’s car ran off an access ramp on Florida’s Turnpike and smashed into a metal pole because, the jury determined, the 10-inch drop-off on the left lane caused the car to swerve. The jury found that the drop-off was 45 percent each the fault of the state and the construction company.
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