Monday, June 2, 2008

Small Bits of News

Ticketed driver pays Wis. fine, 21 years later
KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) - Someone in Texas apparently had a guilty conscience, paying up on a parking ticket handed out 21 years before.
The Kenosha Police Department says officers found a $6 payment for the ticket, issued Jan. 20, 1987, in a drop box.
A notice on the ticket indicated that failure to pay within 120 hours would result in doubling of the $3 forfeiture.
It was signed by a man who listed a Dallas address.
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Pringles can creator buried.. in Pringles can!
COLLEGE HILL, OH -- Dr. Fredric J. Baur got his wish after he died. Baur was the man who invented the design for the Pringles potato chip can.And after he passed away last month his family honored his last wishes, and placed some of his remains inside a Pringles can. That can was then placed inside a traditional urn, both now resting in the Arlington Memorial Gardens in Springfield Township, Ohio.

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