NEED A DESIGNATED DRIVER?

LONGVIEW, TEXAS- The important thing to do when drinking is to have a designated driver. But, not if she’s your underage daughter.

A 35-year-old Texas woman has been jailed after police say she made her 12-year-old daughter drive her to a bar. Police say they watched a minivan turn into a driveway without signaling and bump into a home at a low speed. When they approached the vehicle, the car was driven by Jennifer Lynn Rosenberg’s daughter.

Police say the girl told an officer she had just dropped her mother off at a bar. They then found Rosenburg at the bar and she admitted having her daughter drive her there.

Rosenburg was taken into custody and remains in County Jail on a $2,500 bond. Nothing happened to the young girl, but boy does mom have some explaining to do about her child ‘s driver’s ed.

CHOMP! CHOMP!

OGDEN, UTAH- This was Mike Tyson’s 1997 “bite fight” all over again!
Two Ogden neighbors got into a brawl after a minor league baseball game that ended with one them biting off a part of the other’s ear.

The two men had returned home from the Ogden Raptors baseball game when police said one man apparently offended the other with a comment.

Authorities say the offended man responded by striking the other in the face several times, then fastening on to his ear with his teeth and pulling back to rip off a part of the ear.

The man was arrested and facing charges of assault causing mayhem, possession of marijuana, intoxication and resisting arrest.

WHERE ARE THE KEYS?

STANTON, TEXAS- Note to self: when you are robbing a drug store, don’t lock the car keys in the getaway car.

Authorities say John Wilkinson, 24, of Big Spring, did just that after he allegedly robbed the Stanton Drug Store of Zanax and hydrocodine with what was later found to be a caulking gun.

Wilkinson used a caulking gun, wrapped in a dark cloth, to get the drugs. When he headed back to his getaway car, parked and running in front of the drug store, he discovered he was locked out.

Therefore, Wilkinson tried to get away on foot. Police, who thought he had a gun, shot him on top of his shoulder during the short chase. And the would-be robber was taken to the hospital for treatment and to jail.

COACH “CRACK DOWN”

KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI- The quarrel caught on video between two debate coaches was far from sharp-witted dialogue. Actually, it was filled with profanity and one even “cracked down” on the situation by pulling his shorts down.

An eight-minute segment of the argument was posted on YouTube obtaining more than 100,000 hits. In the video, Fort Hays State University debate coach, William Shanahan is shown arguing with Shanara Reid-Brinkley, debate coach at the University of Pittsburgh, during the competition’s quarterfinals.

The argument, which appears to be at least in part about race, is full of frequent cursing and name-calling. Shanahan, who is white, and Reid-Brinkley, who is African American, scream criticisms about one another’s body language during students’ debates.

At one point, Shanahan screams as he jumps up, yanks his shorts down to his knees and points his rear end at Reid-Brinkley.

The incident is being investigated, but schools need to “crack down” on situations like these.

COIN JAR

CINCINNATI, OHIO- See a penny; pick it up is a motto one Ohio man took to heart.

Seventy-year-old, James Jones says he doesn’t trust paper money. Therefore, he paid with enough coins to cover half the price of a brand new pickup truck.

Employees at a dealership in the Cincinnati suburb of Springdale say Jones brought 16 coffee cans full of coins for a new Chevrolet Silverado. Salesman, David Crisswell, says employees spent nearly two hours counting the collection of quarters, dimes, half-dollars and dollar coins, which ended up covering half the $16,000 price tag of the pickup.

Jones and his wife, Betty, wrote a check for the other half of the cost.
Jones’ son says his dad has always preferred to pay with coins. But it don’t matter what you pay with, ‘cause this penny-pinching man just drove off the lot 16-coffee cans lighter.