Woman Avoids Squirrel, Rodent Still Gets it in the End
Three injured in squirrel-related crash
SOUTH MOUNTAIN -- Three people were injured in a two vehicle crash about 1:45 p.m. Saturday after a woman swerved to avoid a squirrel in the road on U.S. 40A near Moser Road, according to Maryland State Police in Hagerstown.
Amy Deosaran, 32, of Middletown, was driving a 2002 Acura MDX east on U.S. 40A when she saw the squirrel, police said. The Acura struck a westbound 1995 Toyota Tacoma driven by Philip N. Kisner, 50, of Martinsburg, W.Va., head on.
Toyota passenger Karen Lynn Kisner, 50, Deosaran, and her 9-year-old son were taken to Washington County Hospital in Hagerstown with nonlife-threatening injuries, police said. Philip Kisner refused treatment. Everyone was wearing seat belts and the child was in a child safety restraint.
Deosaran was charged with failure to drive right of center, police said.
After the crash, the squirrel again attempted to cross U.S. 40A but did not make it, police said. The squirrel was struck and killed by an unknown vehicle.
-- Gina Gallucci
OK folks... This is a life lesson to all of the PETA people out there to remember that a squirrel is not worth possibly killing three people. Seriously, she swerved into oncoming traffic to avoid a squirrel and sent three people to the hospital, putting her own son in harms way. The ironic part is that the damn squirrel was then hit by another car with a driver smart enough not to swerve into traffic to avoid the rodent.
Please people, if for no reason then getting yourselves mentioned in the Darwin awards, don't swerve into oncoming traffic to avoid a rodent that there are millions of around. It just is not worth killing someone over.
I Never Seen this New Fangled Math Before!
"I seen in the paper where they gave that Brandon Morris life in prison. He's a young kid. Imagine if he lives another 50 years - this all I'm saying - what's it gonna cost the state? I saw the other day where it costs $30,000 a year for each inmate. If he lives another 50 years - I just figured it out - it's gonna cost the taxpayers $2,280,000." - Funkstown
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So I just though I would reiterate that some people in this area really need to refrain from ever attempting to do math that will result in some type of public display of their work. I'm sorry Funkstown, but last time I checked, $30,000 x 50 = $1,500,000 which means no one knows where your $2,280,000 number came from. Now if you had stated that he will live for another 76 years then you would be dead on and I would be going "Yay Funkstown! You can multiply correctly!" but alas, I cannot be so cheerful because you have proven that you can not multiply numbers very well at all. My advice... Get a calculator.
Dumb Maryland Laws
I found this list of laws on Digg not to long ago and I figured I would pass it along, while none are Hagerstown specific, they are pretty crazy none the less.
- Baltimore City: Though you may spit on a city roadway, spitting on city sidewalks is prohibited. You may not curse inside the city limits.
- Baltimore: It's illegal to throw bales of hay from a second-story window within the city limits. It's illegal to take a lion to the movies. It is a park rule violation to be in a public park with a sleeveless shirt. $10 fine. This would include joggers that go shirtless. (1898) -Park Rule 6 It is a violation of city code to sell chicks or ducklings to a minor within 1 week of the Easter holiday.
- Baltimore has regulations governing the disposal of hog's heads, pet droppings and oyster shells.
- Columbia: You can not have a antenna exposed outside of your house yet you can have a 25' satellite dish. Though clotheslines are banned, clothes may be draped over a fence.
- Eating while swimming in the ocean is prohibited.
- Gypsies should steer clear of Caroline County, Md., where it's a $100 fine or six months in the can for "forecasting or pretending to foretell the future."
- In Baltimore it's illegal to block the sidewalk with a box. But the offense only carries a $1 fine. Another law makes it illegal to throw bale of hay (or of anything else) out a second-story window. That gets you a $20 fine.
- In Baltimore it's illegal to play professional croquet before 2 p.m. Sunday. The law also applies to professional quoits.
- In Baltimore it is illegal to mistreat oysters.
- In Baltimore, it is illegal to wash or scrub sinks no matter how dirty they get.
- In Baltimore, Maryland, it is not legal to take a lion to the movies.
- In Halethrope, Maryland kisses longer than one second are illegal.
- In Maryland, a woman may not go through her husband's pockets while he is sleeping.
- In Maryland, men may not buy drinks for female bartenders.
- In Maryland, it is illegal to sell condoms from vending machines with one exception: prophylactics may be dispensed from a vending machine only "in places where alcoholic beverages are sold for consumption on the premises."
- In Maryland, the legislature once proposed a board of parachute examiners to be made up of five licensed parachute instructors who would test and license all other parachute instructors. The plan had been abandoned when it was learned there were only three licensed parachute instructors in the state.
- In the entire state of Maryland, it is illegal to give or recieve oral sex.
- It is a violation to be in a public park with a sleeveless shirt. $10 fine.
- It's illegal to take a lion to the movies.
- Maryland now requires that alcohol beverage writers be certified as experts by an agency of the state before they can receive product samples, which it limits to three bottles per brand.
- Ocean City: A law from the early 1900's prohibits men from going topless on the Boardwalk. Eating while swimming in the ocean is prohibited
- Thistles may not grow in one's yard.
- You can not have a antenna exposed outside of your house yet you can have a 25' satellite dish.
- You cannot throw a bail of hay out of a second story window in Annapolis.
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