NEWS OF THE WEIRD

Quadriplegic Louis Berrios, 32, filed a lawsuit in December in New
York City against Our Lady of Mercy Hospital for a June incident in
which doctors turned him over to police because they thought his X-ray
revealed bags of heroin in his stomach instead of what they were:
bladder stones.

And Vermont social activist George Singleton, 49 and black, with
hip-length dreadlocks, was acquitted in October of DUI in Vinita,
Okla., where he had been arrested because of the bag of suspicious
herbs found in his car. (Rather than charge him with mere careless
driving, police kept him in jail for 15 days even after two blood
tests showed him clean and the herb was found by the lab to be rosemary.)

Greg Kelly, 31, was found guilty of DUI in Ontario in October based on
a Breathalyzer test administered at 2:32 a.m. on April 6, 1997. His
argument: That day was daylight-saving time changeover, and thus 2:32
a.m. never occurred, in that at 2 a.m., all clocks moved ahead to 3
a.m. (Said the judge: Correct, but still guilty.)