"Evidently ... someone got out of one of the cars to exchange information, and their pocket-sized dog escapes and takes off running," Roylance said. "Soon, at least a half-dozen people are out of their cars, some chasing after the dog, who is southbound in the northbound lanes, hell-bent for leather. He's weaving across all three traffic lanes, full-tilt boogie, with sprinting humans close behind. They scramble among the stopped and slowed cars in all three traffic lanes. Somebody pulls their car into the breakdown lane and joins the chase - in reverse."
Eventually, traffic started moving, and Roylance went on his way.
"But I can't help wonder what became of the dog, and his pursuers."
Somebody out there knows the end the story. Fill me in.
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Just a few years ago, New Yorkers invaded the Baltimore Police Department, and it became dangerous for cops to dis their Big Apple rivals. That era is officially over.
Last week, at a mock murder trial designed to teach teens about the criminal justice system, 16-year-old Eric Hill played the role of a police officer taking the witness stand.
In Baltimore, noncops aren't allowed to wear city police uniforms, so public defender Marie Sennett dressed him in an NYPD shirt, The Baltimore Sun's Peter Hermann reports.
"We don't want him to be charged with impersonating an officer," Sennett said.
Commissioner Fred Bealefeld III shot back: "He still is if he's from New York."
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Michael Steele, the guest host on Bill Bennett's radio show earlier this month, offered his theory of global cooling.
"We are cooling," he said. "We are not warming. The warming you see out there, the supposed warming, and I am using my finger quotation marks here, is part of the cooling process. Greenland, which is now covered in ice, it was once called Greenland for a reason, right?"
Yes, there was a reason, a reason that a guy who ran for Senate with fake Kweisi Mfume endorsement fliers should understand: deceptive marketing.
As the Huffington Post notes, it's commonly believed that Greenland got its name from Erik the Red, who'd been banished to Greenland in 982 and wanted to lure other settlers there.
So Steele fell for Erik's ancient con. There's a sucker born every millennium.
