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One More for the Road

The bartender at a Seattle, Wash., lounge asked a patron to leave as she began stripping off her clothes. She used hot-pink duct tape to cover her naughty bits, then “clawed” at the employee and another patron. That was the final straw for the barkeep, so he called for the cops. As officers pulled up, the woman ran, hiding in the women’s room of a Taco Bell restaurant. The cops went after her, and sat the handcuffed woman in a patrol car. It was only then, says police spokeswoman Renee Witt, that the woman “freaked out” — kicking one officer in the head hard enough to cause a concussion, and kicking another in the hand hard enough to sever a tendon in his finger, and doing an “over-the-head back flip” which got her to the open door on the other side of the car. She was able to kick a third officer in the jaw, requiring hospital treatment. The woman was taken to the hospital too, where the only way to get her under control was to sedate her. She was booked on assault charges. (RC/KOMO Seattle) ...Just goes to show you: this one was so much more likely to involve zoo animals.