NEWS OF THE WEIRD

Still more people who would be free today if they had kept lower profiles:
If you're smoking marijuana and have arrest warrants outstanding, you
shouldn't just say ``Come in'' when someone knocks on the door (two men,
Lanagan, Mo., March; at the door was a former police officer then
door-to-door campaigning for mayor). If you're carrying heroin and
marijuana, you shouldn't cause a disturbance by constantly spitting on the
front window of a bar (Ruben F. Adams, 20, Montpelier, Vt., May). If you're
on alcohol-clean probation for DUI that caused a death, you shouldn't pop
into a local bar and shout, ``I'm here to get drunk,'' because the
prosecutor who convicted you might be at the next booth (Jennifer Hardin,
Raleigh, N.C., March).

Chuck Shepherd's News of the Weird appears in Silicon Valley Life. E-mail
him at 74777.3206@CompuServe.com

Checked-by: Melodi Cornett