A 76-year-old Wyoming man shot with a Taser by police while he was driving an antique tractor in a small-town parade says it hurt but he’s OK.
Retired truck driver Bud Grose of Glenrock told The Associated Press in a telephone interview Wednesday that he has a heart condition but didn’t require any medical attention.
Investigators say police in Glenrock used a Taser on the man after he disobeyed orders. They say the tractor may have hit a car.
Two officers were placed on paid leave and state agents are investigating, but the police chief says it doesn’t appear any policies were violated.
“Cronkiters” a crock perpetuated by anchor
Turns out the anchorman who prided himself on accuracy helped perpetuate an unfounded claim that newscasters in Sweden and Holland had been nicknamed “cronkiters.”
Walter Cronkite wasn’t alone in this mistaken report. Apparently, the first journalist to publish it was Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Halberstam. In a magazine piece in 1976, Halberstam wrote that Cronkite’s international stature was such that “in Sweden, anchormen came to be known as Cronkiters.” It was a tidbit Halberstam repeated in his classic 1979 chronicle of the modern media world, “The Powers That Be.”
The theory gained credence when Cronkite himself mentioned it in “A Reporter’s Life,” his 1996 memoir.
No evidence confirms its truth. Not Cronkiters. Not cronkiters. Not with a “k” instead of a “c.” Not in Holland (which was added to the mix along the way) any more than in Sweden.
That’s really the way it is.
A horse with no aim tramples car in Israel
An Israeli horse took to the highway and trampled an oncoming car in an encounter captured on video by a group of tourists in northern Israel.
The tourists began filming when three horses came on the highway and began to canter alongside their car, but the scene took a bizarre turn when an oncoming car came along.
The first two horses weaved out of the sedan’s path, but the third took it head-on, smashing through its windshield with its hooves before leaping over it and continuing on.
Compiled from wire reports
