Go ahead and laugh:
Police on lookout for driving dog in Cum Park Plaza:
Burlington, North Carolina’s shopping center Cum Park Plaza saw action this week, after police pursued a canine (not pictured above) that was supposedly operating a motor vehicle.
The News-Record reported that on Tuesday Burlington police were authorized to “be on the lookout” (BOLO!) for a dark-colored vehicle with a dog’s foot on the gas. “There was a car in the area of Cum Park Plaza driving recklessly,” Lt. Brian Long said, “and it appeared a dog was driving the vehicle.”
You have a choice here: do you want to snicker at the fact that there is an actual place in North Carolina called Cum Park Plaza*, or do you want to sing the Toonces the Driving Cat song?
Here’s another soon-to-be classic headline, this one from the Indian Express (h/t Joe Veix):
Indian Express this morning. I declare it a winner already. pic.twitter.com/1IeX7tzdAW
— shubhra gupta (@shubhragupta) May 16, 2014
* Via the Burlington Times-News, July 23, 2006:
Cum-Park Plaza got its name from the last names of Hugh Cummings and Carl Parks, the two businessmen who started planning for the center in 1960. There was a contest to name the shopping center, and a woman named Maude Wood won $500 for suggesting the name.
