Friend teaches drunken driver a lesson

A man charged five times with drunken driving in the United States was tricked into believing he had been in a coma for 10 years as a result of a drunken night behind the wheel. Comedian Tom Mabe from Kentucky set up a fake hospital room and had a fake nurse and doctor talk his friend through the “accident”. “I was out drinking. That’s all I remember,” the friend told the doctor. The doctor replied: “You were in an accident (that) took place in 2013. It is now 2023. You have been in a coma for the past 10 years.” Mabe went to the trouble of producing a fake TV news bulletin stating “president Hillary Clinton” was threatening war with Canada. Mabe said he made the video to try to discourage others from drunken driving over the Christmas season. A former Qantas airline steward charged with importing $200,000 worth of the drug “ice” into Australia faces jail time. Samuel Kaufman, 50, smuggled in the methamphetamine on a business class flight from Los Angeles to Melbourne in March last year, describing the haul as “chocolates” on his crew declaration card. He was later arrested in the car park of his South Yarra, Victoria apartment. Police found eight grams of ice in two packages. Last month the veteran flight attendant was found guilty of importing a marketable quantity of the drug. He was due to be sentenced this weekend. Hollywood actor Paul Walker, who died in a car crash in Valencia, California on Nov 30, is being remembered as one of Hollywood’s true “nice guys”. In addition to his good deeds for charitable organizations, for which he sought no publicity, details emerged last week of an incident at a Santa Barbara jewelry store several years ago where Walker anonymously forked out for a $10,000 engagement ring for a soldier and his fiancee who were also in the store at the time. Walker had overheard the soldier, who’d recently returned from his first tour in Iraq, tell his partner that he couldn’t afford the ring she had chosen and quietly got the attention of the store manager. The Fast and The Furious actor then told the manager to “put (the ring) on my tab”, before leaving the store quietly. When the couple asked who had picked up the tab, the store told them it was an anonymous gift.