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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution before driving to the station. While talking to because he was distracted by Facebook. reports that, on the night of Sunday, June 7, officers, Stewart allegedly attempted to drink Assemblyman Scott Wilk was the sole 22-year-old Julia Marie Jones tried to conceal “a closed bottle of cleaning fluid,” but was Republican to vote for California’s record $117 D the piles of panties in her purse, a handbag and stopped from doing so. Per his request, Stewart billion spending plan during a June 15 N ENDS several grocery bags. According to the store, was charged with driving under the influence legislative session. He later clarified that he A the underwear in question was worth $749.95. and jailed. accidentally voted yes to the bill because he Jones was charged with felony theft by was so busy opposing it on Facebook. The WEIRD NEWS shoplifting and booked into Cobb County jail. Dateline: Pennsylvania California Assembly allows lawmakers to She was released on Tuesday after posting a A man accused of robbing a bank in western change their official votes—which is what Dateline: Germany $5,000 bond. After her story went viral, Jones Pennsylvania would have made a clean Wilk did after fellow Republicans pointed out Officials in Dresden say a traffic light that has posted about the incident on her Facebook getaway—if only he hadn’t stopped for biscuits his mistake of not following party lines. The been stuck on red for the last 28 years will stay page, saying, “Before you jump to conclusions, while fleeing police. The Pittsburgh Tribune- budget bill passed anyway, 53-17. a that way for the foreseeable future. The light, you should all stop to consider there may be a Review reports 32-year old Shane Lindsey was positioned just South of the Elbe river where reason behind what you’re tagging me in arrested less than 20 minutes after he robbed Compiled by Devin D. O’Leary. Email your weird Ziegelstrasse meets three other streets has been happened. And if you all KNEW the the Citizens Bank in downtown New news to [email protected]. red since it was installed in 1987. The red light reasoning, you’d leave me alone.” Jones, Kensington on Jan. 14. Witnesses to the allows motorists to turn right after stopping. however, declined to mention the reasoning. robbery told police they saw a man matching According to the Berliner Zeitung newspaper, the “Even if exactly what you’re reading IS all Lindsey’s description run out of the bank and city spends 5,500 euros a year maintaining the there is to the story, it’s STILL ridiculous for toward the nearby Eazer’s Restaurant. Knowing traffic light, regularly replacing the green and you all to keep posting it,” she added. the restaurant in question had surveillance yellow bulbs—even though they have never cameras, police went into Eazer’s to try to get been used. Dresden officials said the traffic Dateline: Kentucky video footage from the owners. Inside, police light’s placement is based on “regulation 27, An allegedly intoxicated motorist drove to the found Shane Lindsey sitting at a booth eating section 37 of the transport regulations” as laid Hopkinsville Police Department near the biscuits. Police say Lindsey used the restaurant’s out by the Research Institute for Street Tennessee border and asked officers to arrest bathroom to discard a coat and hood he wore Transportation. Asked by the English language him for driving while intoxicated. According during the robbery. Earlier this month Lindsay daily The Local why the red light hasn’t simply to the Kentucky New Era newspaper, pleaded guilty to robbery and was sentenced to been replaced with a stop sign, a city Christopher L. Stewart, 26, was arrested at two to four years in prison by Westmoreland spokesperson said, “Stop signs do not 8:10pm after he was seen driving to the police County Judge Debra A. Pezze. Lindsay is correspond to traffic light systems and do not department and entering the “do not enter” already serving a 16-to-60-month sentence for fulfill the same set of regulations.” side of the parking lot. Stewart then slammed an unrelated burglary in Venango County. on his breaks, nearly hitting a police cruiser. Dateline: Georgia The newspaper went on to say Stewart got out Dateline: California A woman from Jasper faces felony shoplifting of his car, approached officers and said he was A Republican lawmaker became the first of his JUNE 25-JULY 1 , 2015 WEEKLY ALIBI [5] CRIB NOTES newS | council watch BY AUGUST MARCH crib notes: June 25, 2015 Summer Vacation 1 Officials at the ABQ BioPark are considering caging the City Council packs its bags _________________, one of which attacked a child last month. a) Grey seals b) Huge crocodiles c) Ice cream vendors d) Beautiful peacocks The amount of materials the city of 2 Albuquerque and its citizens _______________________ has doubled in the past few years. a) Recycles b) Feeds to stray coyotes c) Flushes down the commode d) Sends hurling off into the vastness of space A portable water slide set up on the 3 edge of town this weekend faced numerable problems including ILLUSTRATION BY ROBERT MAESTAS _________________________. those positions without council approval. reviewed by the finance committee after the * The future possibility of increases in fares a) Lack of water BY CAROLYN CARLSON July break and should be back to the council for the city’s bus service ABQ Ride. No set b) Long lines late summer. amount was approved, only the ability for the c) High weekend temperatures lbuquerque City Councilors slid into their More Burque Buzz: d) All of the above summer vacay by taking care of a boatload transit department to raise rates over time. It * Bernalillo County Commission approved Aof city business. Councilors met until late was estimated by transit director Bruce Rizzieri Santolina, a 22-square-mile mega-development that rates could raise anywhere from 9 to 25 Two Albuquerque city councilors in the night on consecutive Mondays, June 15 adjacent to the city’s southwest border.