Snakes! But not on a plane.

by Tryan Hartill

Eventually more than 20 of the harmless snakes were found inside the car, some pencil-thin and one the diameter of a quarter and 3 feet long.
Brinkerhoff recognized Hart’s granddaughter, Paige Hart, as a classmate from Warrenton High School, so he offered to help last week, along with another Fred Meyer employee, Taylor Hageman, 17, and several customers.
One man dumped out his groceries and gave Hart the plastic carrying bags she could fill them with snakes.

Prank?

When Warrenton police Officer Jim Gaebel arrived he guessed that one snake must have gotten into the car and had babies. Gaebel later told Hart that in all his years in police work, this was his first snake call.

But Hart believes it was a prank.

“Who did it? We don’t know,” she said. But she believes her car was chosen because a window stuck in the open position made it an easy target in the big parking lot.
Hart said her son, Jim Hart, a former Warrenton police officer, agreed and an Oregon State University extension agent later dismissed the theory that the little snakes could have been born inside her car.

But the story did not end there.

‘They just keep coming and coming’
When Hart and her granddaughter drove home, “two snakes fell out of the dashboard right where my feet were,” Hart said.
She and her granddaughter put the snakes in a bucket and dumped them in a vacant lot across the street from Hart’s home in downtown Warrenton, just a block from City Hall.
The next day, after a friend pulled off some paneling inside the car, they found yet another big snake. The day after that, three more snakes emerged from her car’s innards. One of them bit her as she was pulling it out of the dashboard.
“I’m not afraid of snakes. But when they just keep coming and coming, you kind of get a little paranoid,” Hart said.

Coors CEO gets caught testing product

Beer baron Peter Coors’ driver’s license has been revoked by a hearing officer who ruled the executive had been driving under the influence of alcohol, officials said.
Hearing officer Scott Garber ruled Friday that Coors did not stop at a stop sign on May 28 and was driving intoxicated.
Coors, 59, said he had consumed a beer about 30 minutes before leaving a wedding, the Rocky Mountain News reported Saturday. He faces a July 20 arraignment and has 30 days to appeal the revocation.

(A beer Hmmm…)

Hatland said that Coors rolled through a stop sign a block from his home in Golden and that an officer stopped him in his driveway.
In one breath test, he registered a blood alcohol level of 0.073 percent. In a second, 20 minutes later, he registered 0.088. In Colorado a blood alcohol count of 0.05 results in a driving while impaired charge, while a count of 0.08 results in driving under the influence.

.088…one beer? Looks like he’s drinking 40 oz’s these days!

Coors took over as president of his family’s company in 1987 and in 2000 was named chief executive of the brewer, with 8,500 employees and $4 billion in sales in 2003. Following a 2005 merger, it is now the Molson Coors Brewing Co.

“Cutest cop I’ve seen”

A woman who called 911 to get “the cutest cop I’ve seen” sent back to her home got a date all right — a court date.
The same sheriff’s deputy arrested her on charges of misuse of the emergency dispatch system.
Washington County Sheriff’s Sgt. David Thompson told KGW-TV of Portland it all started with a noise complaint called in last month by neighbors of Lorna Jeanne Dudash. The deputy sent to check on the complaint knocked on her door, then left.

Called 911, asking that the “cutie pie” deputy return.

“He’s the cutest cop I’ve seen in a long time. I just want to know his name,” Dudash told the dispatcher. “Heck, it doesn’t come very often a good man comes to your doorstep.”
“Honey, I’m just going to be honest with you, OK? I just thought he was cute. I’m 45 years old and I’d just like to meet him again, but I don’t know how to go about doing that without calling 911,” she said.
“I know this is absolutely not in any way, shape or form an emergency, but if you would give the officer my phone number and ask him to come back, would you mind?”

To the slammer!

The deputy returned, verified that there was no emergency and arrested her for misusing the 911 system, an offense punishable by a fine of up to several thousand dollars and a year in jail.
Thompson said Thursday it was the first case he knew of in which someone called the emergency line for such a personal reason.

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