“One can only wonder whether Zachary P. Ramirez has a slow hand to go with that apparently lead foot of his. The 21-year-old motorist got pulled over recently by Naperville police, after a patrol officer clocked him driving 111 mph through a section of the Springbrook Prairie Forest Preserve, where the speed limit is posted at 45 mph. As traffic cops are wont to do, police asked Ramirez where he was going in such a hurry. Ramirez reputedly replied he was ‘trying to go have sex with a girl he liked.’ Police Sgt. Gregg Bell said Ramirez’s troubles began about 2:06 a.m. Saturday, when an officer was on patrol and on the lookout for speeders along a stretch of Plainfield-Naperville Road. The officer noted a black, 1994 Honda Prelude driving north from 87th Street, Bell said via e-mail. The officer’s radar unit initially clocked the car traveling at 104 mph ‘and finally locked at 111mph.” w/ photo

“Wayne O’Donnell takes his pet for a walk around his Hampshire town, the looks on people’s faces leave no doubts they think he’s quackers. And there’s no ducking the issue, Boris isn’t the normal type of creature you’d expect to see loyally wandering along behind his owner, let alone sitting peacefully in the passenger seat of a car, enjoying a sip of beer in a bar or strolling along a Spanish beach. But Wayne, from Romsey, insists that was part of the appeal of having an Aylesbury duck for a pet. ‘People sort of look gobsmacked. They can’t work it out,’ he said. ‘But it’s the dogs that really can’t work it out and sit there and think ‘what are you?’, but he’s not worried at all by them. ‘He doesn’t think he’s a duck.” w/ photos