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Disabled scooter rider facing DUI charge

ATLANTA, Nov. 15 (UPI) -- A disabled Georgia man faces drunken driving charges after police stopped him for driving his motorized scooter on the wrong side of the road.

Bob Pruett's defense apparently is that his motorized scooter is a wheelchair, not a vehicle. He said that if anything, he should have been charged with public drunkenness, WSB-TV in Atlanta reported Wednesday.

Dawson County investigators said Pruett, who has cerebral palsy and has no use of his legs, was on his scooter on the wrong side of the road with a 12-pack of beer in his cart. His blood-alcohol level allegedly registered .125.

Pruett's attorney said wheelchairs weren't intended to be covered under the state's motor vehicle code.

Catfight over kitten leaves teeth marks

GRAND FALLS-WINDSOR, Newfoundland, Nov. 15 (UPI) -- A scuffle over a kitten in Newfoundland sent a woman to the hospital for treatment of human bite marks.

Jean Mercer, president of the Grand Falls-Windsor Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, said she was attacked after she and another woman went to speak to the owner of the kitten because of a bounced check, the Canadian Broadcast Corp. said Wednesday.

When the kitten's owner refused to speak to them, the SPCA workers took the animal back to their car. Mercer said the owner then came outside, forced her way into the car and attacked her.

Mercer was treated at the hospital for bite marks and a bruise.

Mascot fired over YouTube video

STREATOR, Ill., Nov. 14 (UPI) -- A high school student in Illinois has been removed as school mascot after he appeared in a YouTube video dramatizing the character's death.

Sophomore Hunter Cox said he accepts that the video, which featured Streator (Ill.) High School mascot Mr. Bulldog being beaten by a neighborhood gang and mowed down by a motorist, was ample cause to prevent him from portraying Mr. Bulldog during the coming basketball season, the Bloomington (Ill.) Pantagraph reported Wednesday.

"I will not be the mascot for the basketball season, this year, anyway," Cox said. "At first, I thought they overreacted, but now that I've had time to think about it, I guess they were right in what they did."

Cox said the uniform was not damaged by the video's creation.

"I guess I have to agree with the school on this one, though they may have been a little harsh," he said.

Inactive grenade found in child's bag

BULLHEAD CITY, Ariz., Nov. 14 (UPI) -- An elementary school in Arizona was evacuated after a 9-year-old student was found to be carrying a grenade in his backpack.

Mountain View Elementary School teachers in Bullhead City said several students told them the boy was carrying an explosive in his bag, and the school was emptied as a safety measure, The Arizona Republic reported Wednesday.

Bullhead City Police Department Public Information Officer Emily Montague said two police bomb technicians were dispatched to the scene and found the grenade was not active.

"It was a real grenade but it wasn't dangerous because it had been deactivated," Montague said. "He just brought it to show his friends."

She said the grenade, which had been emptied of any explosive material, had been purchased at a garage sale by the boy's parents. A second inactive grenade was found in the boy's bedroom.

Montague said the case has been passed on to the County Attorney's Office

"They will have to decide whether or not they consider the grenade a weapon," she said. "He could face charges."