A man and his monkey pulled over in Florida A man and his monkey pulled over in Florida ADVERTISING LARGO, Fla. — A Florida man is charged with felony drunken driving and wildlife violations after police discovered a small monkey
A man and his monkey pulled over in Florida
LARGO, Fla. — A Florida man is charged with felony drunken driving and wildlife violations after police discovered a small monkey in his truck.
Largo Police said Eugene Carl Kotelman was speeding when they stopped him Thursday. He was driving on a suspended license and had been previously charged numerous times with driving on a suspended license and DUI.
Officers noticed a “small monkey” in Kotelman’s truck and released the primate to his friend.
After Kotelman was released on bond from the DUI charge, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officers charged him with possession of wildlife and two counts of violating fish and wildlife rules. They took custody of the monkey.
Police did not have a way to contact Kotelman and no current phone listing could be found.
NATO video includes errors about city, president
CHICAGO — It seems NATO may also stand for Not All That Observant.
A video posted on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization website ahead of its upcoming summit in Chicago got a few things wrong: identifying Chicago as Illinois’ capital, identifying the city as the place President Barack Obama grew up and identifying the wrong man as the founder of the Chicago Tribune.
But by Friday, NATO showed it could also stand for Not About To Offend after it scrubbed those mistakes from the video.
Springfield is Illinois’ capital. Obama spent his childhood in Hawaii and Indonesia and only moved to Chicago later. And Col. Robert McCormick, for whom the host convention center is named, did not found the Tribune, as the video first stated.
Snake blamed for Oklahoma City
power outage
OKLAHOMA CITY — Officials say a snake slithered into an Oklahoma City electric substation and knocked out power to about 10,000 customers overnight.
Oklahoma Gas and Electric Co. said the power outage affected customers in northwest Oklahoma City at about 2 a.m. Thursday. A spokesman said workers found a snake in the transformer at the Lone Oak substation.
OG&E said power was restored to all customers by 3 a.m.
By wire sources
