Midday News Links: 92-Year-Old Suburban Woman Drives Car Into Swimming Pool
By Samantha Abernethy in News on Dec 3, 2012 7:40PM
- A 92-year-old woman drove her car into a swimming pool on Saturday in Northbrook. Fortunately the pool had just three to four feet of water in it, and she was unharmed. A bystander said it looked like she was trying to park when she hit the gas instead of the brake, zooming through a fence and into the pool. [NBC]
- An off-duty police officer caught two men stealing packages from a mail truck. [Tribune]
- United Airlines is paying its employees $100 bonuses to reward them for a good on-time performance in November. [Crain's]
- It looks like The Mob Doctor has been put out of its misery. [Huffington Post]
- One of Sports Illustrated's "Signs of the Apocalypse" is a Chicago man who started a Facebook page to try to persuade her wife to name their daughter after a Notre Dame player. [Deadspin]
- It's sort of rude for Adidas to run the Derrick Rose "The Return" ad during Bulls games, just to remind us all that Rose hasn't returned yet. [NY Times]