A couple of items in the news has me rolling in the aisle.
First there was well-known actor Rip Torn. Seems like he got rip-roaring drunk last January and, late at night, broke into a Connecticut bank, thinking that it was his home. He was charged with criminal trespass, burglary and criminal mischief. And because poor old Rip had a gun on his person when the cops found him, he was also charged with carrying a gun without a permit and carrying a gun while intoxicated.
Now it is not at all that uncommon for a drunk neighbor to break into the house next door, believing it to be his own home. But breaking into a bank thinking it was a home – well, poor old Rip must have boozed it up to the point where he got totally wasted.
Then there was the jerk of a driver in a suburb of Cleveland who, early Monday, fled from police officers trying to stop him for a traffic violation. The ensuing police chase went through four communities and at times reached speeds of 90 mph. Finally, the driver stopped and, together with his three passengers, bailed out of the car. He and one of his buddies ran toward a large fence. His buddy got busted before he could scale the fence, but the driver managed to climb over the fence only to land inside the yard of the Ohio women’s prison.
After the driver was arrested, he had to taken to a hospital to be treated for a number of serious cuts he got while slithering over the concertina razor wire at the top of the prison’s fence. The other two passengers were also arrested.
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