At least one “dead” person voted yesterday — legally.
A nurse in Southfield Township, Mich., was working on his absentee ballot when a man, filling out the same forms with the help of his wife, keeled over.
“She screamed for help, and I went over,” said the nurse, Ty Houston.
“He was dead. He had no heartbeat and wasn’t breathing. I started CPR and . . . he revived,” Houston said.
“The first question he asked was, ‘Did I vote?’ ”
He did.
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This time, the punishment did fit the crime.
A Cleveland woman who didn’t want to stop for a school bus drove around it — on the sidewalk.
She was fined $250 and ordered to stand at the corner wearing a sign that said, “Only an idiot drives on the sidewalk to avoid a school bus.”
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A Belgian engineer has engineered a way to avoid paying airlines for extra carry-on baggage: Wear it.
He invented a suitcase that turns into an ugly, baggy, unisex garment with 14 pockets, including one for a laptop. The pockets hold 33 pounds of stuff.
You wheel the $90 contraption into an airport like a regular piece of luggage, hop into a rest room, and stuff yourself and your possessions into it. When you land, you reverse the procedure — so the only place you look like a fashion disaster is on the plane.
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Gypsy Taub of — where else? — San Francisco decided to testify against a ban on public nudity.
She stepped up to the podium, declared, “Nudity does not harm children” and promptly took off her dress.
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In its quest to attract British tourists, Romania is trying to turn itself into a “twilight” zone.
Its new ads proclaim that Prince Charles is a relative of Dracula. It turns out he’s a great-grandson 15 times removed from Vlad III.