Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe French riot police lose lunch wine PARIS, April 21 (UPI) -- Officials with France's CRS riot police said officers will no longer be able to drink wine or beer with their lunches while on duty. Advertisement Hubert Weigel, head of the CRS, said officers will no longer be entitled to the "beer or a quarter liter (about 1 cup) of wine" with lunch promised to them by a 1989 directive, France 24 reported Thursday. Didier Mangione, a representative of the CRS trade union, said the new rules were based on an "exaggeration." He said recently released pictures of officers drinking while having lunch on duty had "upset the management of the CRS far more than public opinion." "Decisions like these should be based on studies of the actual negative effects (of a small amount of alcohol). There are none," Mangione said. "This ban should be withdrawn, especially if the drink is being consumed with a meal away from the public eye." 136-carat diamond found in Russia YAKUTIA, Russia, April 21 (UPI) -- A spokesman for the Russian Industrial Ministry said workers in a Siberian mine discovered a diamond weighing more than 136 carats. Advertisement The spokesman said the large "honey-yellow" diamond is of irregular shape and has not yet been appraised, RIA Novosti reported Thursday. The diamond was discovered in Yakutia by workers for the Udachninsky Mining Company, a subdivision of ALROSA, which mines 25 percent of the world's diamonds. Police: 4/20 reveler struck patrol car BOULDER, Colo., April 21 (UPI) -- Colorado police said a teenager marking the marijuana-celebrating holiday 4/20 crashed into a deputy's patrol car while under the influence of the drug. Boulder police spokeswoman Kim Kobel said the 17-year-old driver of a Pontiac Grand Prix was leaving a 4/20 event at the University of Colorado Wednesday and struck an empty Boulder County Sheriff's Office patrol car while the deputy was directing traffic, the (Boulder) Daily Camera reported Thursday. Police said no one was injured in the crash but the teenager was taken to Boulder Community Hospital for "issues related to marijuana use." Kobel said the teenager is likely to face tickets for driving under the influence of drugs and reckless driving. Bar cancels weekly goldfish race TACOMA, Wash., April 21 (UPI) -- A Washington state bar said it has canceled its weekly goldfish races following complaints from people claiming association with an animal rights group. Advertisement Joel Cummings, a bartender at the Harmon Tap Room in Tacoma, said the establishment has been receiving complaining calls and e-mails from people claiming to work for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, KIRO-FM, Seattle, reported Thursday. Cummings said the complaints began after a video of one of the events was posted on the bar's Facebook page. "I guess someone took a video of one that jumped out of the trough and landed on the floor," Cummings said. "We took care of them when they weren't racing," he said. "Occasionally they would pass away."
