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Car crash driver blames pterodactyl

Mon, 31 Dec 2007 14:51:26 GMT

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Car crash driver blames pterodactyl

Washington man in audacious dino-defence

A 29-year-old Washington driver who last Thursday night drifted into the oncoming lane before crashing into a light pole failed to convince police officers that flying dinosaurs were to blame, HeraldNet reports.

The 29-year-old Wenatchee man apparently wandered off course "for less than a block" while oncoming traffic obligingly stopped to let him pass en route to said pole. Wenatchee police Sgt. Cherie Smith said that a breathalyzer test showed "a minimal amount of alcohol", although officers' queries as to what had caused the prang were met with the single-word answer "pterodactyl".

The man was treated in hospital and later released. He has been charged with first-degree negligent driving. ®

By Lester Haines → More by this author

Published Monday 31st December 2007 14:11 GMT

Christmas Bonfire in the Desert outside Riyadh

Tue, 25 Dec 2007 16:15:43 GMT

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clipper's remarks: What a party !!!

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Christmas Bonfire in the Desert outside Riyadh

Here's a shout-out to everyone celebrating Christmas in Saudi. Just remember to keep it on the low-down.

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Mark Twain, Father of the Internet?

Sat, 13 Jan 2007 07:12:43 GMT

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Even Twain scholars seem to have missed his foresight on this subject. I discovered it by accident, in browsing through the 24 volumes of his collected works in the "Author's National Edition." In an 1898 short story called "From the 'London Times' of 1904," he describes an invention called the "telelectroscope," a gadget hooked up to the phone system: "The improved 'limitless-distance' telephone was presently introduced, and the daily doings of the globe made visible to everybody, and audibly discussable too, by witnesses separated by any number of leagues."

The story itself revolves around the unjust conviction of an American army officer for the murder of Szczepanik, the inventor of the telelectroscope. On death row, the officer is allowed to use the invention. That narrator, who appears to be Mark Twain himself, is a friend who spends time with the doomed officer as he surfs around the world:

"...day by day, and night by night, he called up one corner of the globe after another, and looked upon its life, and studied its strange sights, and spoke with its people, and realized that by grace of this marvellous instrument he was almost as free as the birds of the air, although a prisoner under locks and bars.