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Man fined for following GPS to cliff

HALIFAX, England, Sept. 16 (UPI) -- A man who followed bad directions from his satellite navigation device and got his car stuck on a 100-foot-high cliff was fined $1,470 by a British court.

The Calderdale Magistrates Court in Halifax, England, was told Robert Jones, 43, was driving in the nearby town of Todmorden March 22 when his TomTom navigation system instructed him to drive down a dirt path leading to the cliff, The Sun reported Wednesday.

Jones continued driving until his BMW became stuck on a fence at the brink of the cliff. He paid $1,650 to have his car recovered from the location.

The court found Jones guilty of driving without due care and attention.

Jones said the incident has not soured him on the TomTom device.

"I still use mine. It's the only time it's ever let me down," he said.

London cuts Thames from train map

LONDON, Sept. 16 (UPI) -- London transportation officials said the city's River Thames was removed from the London Underground map as part of an attempt to remove "clutter."

The Transport for London officials said the new version of the map, which is being distributed at train stations around the city, also lacks the previous map's rings of numbered zones estimating the likely cost of a journey, The Daily Telegraph reported Wednesday.

"Over the years as the transport network has expanded, so has the map which has become increasingly cluttered," a Transport for London spokesman said. "By cleaning up the map, we have tried to produce the best possible journey planning tool for our customers, reflecting the principles of Harry Beck's original and innovative design -- simplicity."

British postmistress trashed cash

DURHAM, England, Sept. 16 (UPI) -- An English postmistress admitted Wednesday that she cooked the books to hide an accident -- throwing thousands of pounds in cash in the trash.

Marissa Finn, 38, in an appearance in Durham Crown Court, pleaded guilty to false accounting, The Daily Mail reported. She denied stealing the money.

Finn, who ran the post office in Easington, a village near the coast, told the court she had taken 27,000 pounds ($45,000) to fill the ATM machine. She said she got distracted and decided to empty a bag of trash into the dumpster.

When the bag broke, scattering trash on the post office floor, Finn said she quickly gathered up both the garbage and the money, putting everything into the dumpster together.

"She said she didn't contact the rubbish collection company because she panicked and was not thinking straight," Paul Caulfield, the prosecuting lawyer, said.

Caulfield said there is no evidence Finn stole the money, which has been repaid. She was caught when her post office was audited.

Finn was given a six-month suspended sentence and fined 500 pounds ($825).

Man charged with drunken scooter driving

MILWAUKEE, Sept. 16 (UPI) -- Authorities in Milwaukee said a man charged with drunken driving was operating a three-wheeled electric scooter on Interstate 43.

Sheriff's deputies said they pulled over Daniel Samplanski, 35, at 2:24 a.m. Friday when he was spotted driving the medical scooter on the ramp from southbound Interstate 43 to eastbound Interstate 794, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported Wednesday.

Deputies said Samplanski told them the scooter belonged to a neighbor and he had driven it to a bar earlier in the evening.

"I got confused. I'm drunk. What am I doing on the ... freeway? I am trying get off," deputies quoted the suspect as saying.

Samplanski, who has at least four prior convictions for alcohol-related driving charges, was charged with operating while intoxicated. He could face up to six years in prison if convicted.