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Brice Kendell Williams, 32, was hoping to avoid getting a DWI early on Nov. 3, CNN reported, so rather than driving his car from one bar to another in Houma, Louisiana, Williams stole a motorized shopping cart from Walmart and toddled more than a half-mile to his destination, according to authorities. He carefully parked the scooter between two cars in the lot and went inside, where officers from the Terrebonne Parish Sheriff's Office found him and arrested him for felony unauthorized use of a moveable. Williams' bond was set at $2,500. [CNN, 11/5/2019]
• North Carolina's Madison County Public Library system has had a loosely enforced rule against bringing pets into its branches.
But on Oct. 8, Interim Director Peggy Goforth appeared before the county's board of commissioners to request a new policy that tightly restricts animals to only service dogs.
Goforth felt she had to advocate for stricter rules after a man brought a bag full of snakes into the library, reported the Citizen Times.
"He said, 'My pets are harmless. Here, let me show you,'" Goforth said. "And he poured them out on the front desk. They just wriggled everywhere."
When told pets weren't allowed in the library, "He was really nice about it. He just bagged up all the snakes and left," she added.
She said another man brought in an ant farm and took the top off to feed them, then forgot to put it back on. "The ants got everywhere."
The library's new policy excludes all animal species except dogs that are trained to help a person with a disability. [Citizen Times, 10/22/2019]