San Francisco - Why is it sometimes when you wake up you wish you hadn't? Richard Martin can answer that because when he arouse from a two-month coma he was arrested. He was charged with attempted murder and kidnapping after having crashed his car, deliberately, with his wife along for the ride. Martin fell into the coma after the crash and his wife survived telling police that she was there against her will."She made several comments, 'He's trying to kill me, he's trying to kill me," according to Nevada Highway Patrol spokesman Chuck Allen. Apparently the Martin's filed for bankruptcy just days before the crash took place. Good luck with the hospital bills. 

The National Baseball Hall of Fame is located in Cooperstown, New York. The city, famous to sports buffs the world over, boasts only about 3,000 residents.

SAN ANTONIO, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- San Antonio police have charged two young Army recruits with public lewdness after they were allegedly caught having sex at the historic Alamo. 
Two teenagers, identified by police as active duty soldiers at nearby Fort Sam Houston, were arrested Sunday evening for having sex at the Alamo, WOAI-AM, San Antonio, reported. 
A police report said the 18-year old woman and 19-year old man, both assigned to an Army medical battalion, were naked from the waist down when tourists spotted them having sex at the former fort. Several visitors observing the activity reported it to authorities, who then charged the couple with public lewdness. 
FLFLHTC: Ah youth!

Ex-Hells Angel murder plot suspect stays a free man 

12 October 2004 AMSTERDAM — Amsterdam Court dismissed on Tuesday the prosecution's appeal against the release of former Hells Angels president "Big Willem" van Boxtel and two other men accused of plotting to kill top criminal Willem Holleeder.

All three men were arrested at the end of September for alleged involvement in a EUR 1 million contract to kill Holleeder, who was made famous for the 1983 kidnapping of Freddie Heineken. But a judge ordered their release several days later due to a lack of evidence.

The public prosecutor (OM) refused on Tuesday to reveal precisely why it had appealed against their release, but prosecutor Fred Teeven said the authorities had obtained new evidence incriminating the three suspects. He was prepared to hand the documents over to the court, but not to the suspects or their lawyers.

Oct 16, 2004 (The Wisconsin State Journal - Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News via COMTEX) -- The last time Schwinn advertised its bicycles on television was in the 1970s when Captain Kangaroo pitched the company's Sting-Ray bikes.

But this holiday season, Schwinn, owned by Madison's Pacific Cycle, will launch a new TV campaign, this time to announce the November release of one of the most-sought after bicycles in recent history: the Sting-Ray Spoiler series. With its aluminum frame, dual disc brakes and motorcycle-style saddle, the Spoiler is to bicycles what Harley-Davidson is to motorcycles, company officials say.

Touted as having "more attitude than a bulldog with a toothache," the Spoiler follows on the heels of another successful launch -- the re-release of the Sting-Ray Street series, Schwinn's icon of an earlier generation, in April of this year.

Sting-Ray sales have been so remarkable this year, even company executives were caught off-guard, said Mo Moorman, the director of marketing of Pacific Cycle, which owns the Schwinn brand.

Dan Rather of CBS news was seated next to little Tommy on the plane when
Rather turned to the boy and said, "Let's talk, I've heard that flights go
quicker if you strike up a conversation with your fellow passengers."

Little Tommy, who had just opened his book, closed it slowly, and said to
Rather, "What would you like to discuss?"

"Oh, I don't know" said Rather, "How about should we keep Bush as
president or elect Kerry?"

"OK" said Little Tommy,  "That could be an interesting topic but let me ask
you a question first.  A horse, a cow and a deer all eat grass.  The same
stuff. Yet a deer excretes little pellets, while a cow turns out flat
patties, and a horse excretes clumps of dried grass.  Why do you think that
is?"

"Jeez" said Rather, "I have no idea."

"Well then" said Little Tommy, "How is it you feel qualified to discuss who
should run this country when you don't know shit?"