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Man With Suspended License Shocks Ann Arbor Judge By Joining Court Zoom While Driving
Rowdy Resort Town Bans Penis Costumes, Blow-up Dolls
By Ben Hooper
May 31 (UPI) -- A resort town in Spain is attempting to calm tourists' rowdy bachelor and bachelorette parties by banning blow-up dolls and giant penis cos- tumes from being displayed in public.
Platja d'Aro, a resort town on the Costa Brava with a population of 12,500,
has become a popular des- tination for bachelor and bachelorette parties, with several companies offering travel packages aimed at the celebrations.
The town has been known to host up to 300,000 tourists in a single week- end.
Mayor Maurici Jiménez announced a new bylaw banning people from going out in public "without cloth- ing or only in their under- wear or with clothing or
accessories representing human genitals or with dolls or other accessories of a sexual nature."
Violations carry fines rang- ing from $325 to $1,627.
Jiménez said pre-wedding celebrations have gotten out of hand in the town recently and are threatening the peace of locals.
Platja d'Aro Police Chief David Puertas cited a recent example where a bachelor party used gaffer tape to bind the groom-to- be to a lamp post and dis- turbed residents by
playing loud music long into the night.
The town's new bylaw fol- lows similar measures insti- tuted in Spanish locales including Tossa de Mar, Lloret de Mar, Sevilla, Málaga and Granada.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2wEUVgnINQ
By Scott Wolchek and FOX 2 Staff
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (FOX 2) - An Ann Arbor judge couldn't contain his shock during a case regarding a man's suspended license – when the man joined the hearing via Zoom while driving.
Court footage shows Judge Cedric Simpson’s dumb- founded reaction as the defendant, Corey Harris, joined the court hearing from the driver's seat.
The hearing happened two weeks ago in Ann Arbor. Harris was involved in a case for driving with a sus- pended license. On May 15, he attended the court hearing for it while behind the wheel.
"Mr Harris, are you driv- ing?" Simpson asked the defendant.
"Actually, I’m pulling into my doctor’s office," Harris says. "Just give me one second,
I'm parking right now."
Simpson couldn't contain himself. He dropped his pen and then rested his head on his hand as he asked the question every- one needed to know.
"Wait. What are we doing?"
Harris' public defender then asked for the case to be adjourned, but Simpson wasn't having any of it.
"Okay, so maybe I don’t understand something. This is a driving while license suspended [case], and he was just driving, and he didn’t have a license," a bemused Simpson replies.
"Um," Harris said as he stared towards his camera.
"That is correct your honor," his public defender responds.
The judge revoked Harris’s bond, and he was ordered to turn himself into
the Washtenaw County jail by that evening.
"I don’t even know why he would do that," Simpson says.
He had until 6 p.m. that night to turn himself in, and he would be held without bond.
"Oh my god," Harris said as he threw his head back.
His defense attorney told FOX 2 that she "strives to live in a world where peo- ple are not jailed for non- violent offenses," but refused to comment further.
Harris' next court date is set for June 5.
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