The Anecdote Bin

THE UPI reports that a man in Preston, England, stopped for drunken driving, told the policeman: "Rubbish! Listen to this. 'Swim, Sam, swim, Sam, swim. Show them you are some swimmer. Swim like the snow-white swan swam. Swim like the snow-white swan. Six sharp, shivering sharks are going to snap your limbs. A well-swum swim is a swim well swum. So swim, Sam swim.'" Unimpressed, the cop issued a summons; and when the case came up for trial, the defendant repeated the piece to a jury. The verdict? Innocent.