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A 38-year-old man was arrested after he called 911 and told a dispatcher he was surrounded by police officers and needed help, authorities said.

Police officers met Dana Farrell Shelton after being called to investigate a disturbance at a bar on Sunday but had found no problems and told him to move along.

Shelton, who officers said appeared intoxicated, then called 911 to report he was "surrounded by Largo police," according to an arrest affidavit.

"Our officers were standing there scratching their heads. He called, standing there in their presence," Largo Sgt. Melanie Holley said. "It's one of our 'truth is stranger than fiction' cases."

Shelton was charged with misdemeanor misuse of 911. The charge carries maximum penalties of one year in jail and $1,000 in fines.

I'm currently listening to Test Match Special, the live cricket commentary from Lord's. It seems like a couple of the commentators/summarisers have been having problems. Henry Blofeld accidently cut his nose whilst shaving, and Jonathan Agnew opened his suitcase to find he'd packed two right shoes.

Fortunately it's only radio.

In Sunday School, they were teaching how God created everything, including human beings. Little Johnny seemed especially interested when they told him how Eve was created out of one of Adam's ribs.

Later in the week, his mother noticed him lying down as if he were ill, and said, "Johnny, what is the matter?"

Little Johnny responded, "I have a pain in my side. I think I'm going to have a wife."

I came across an interesting and unusual idea yesterday concerning someone who has Sitemeter installed on his blog and lists each search term used to find his blog and then adds a brief comment on the subject...no matter how strange it might be.

Unfortunately, because of something to do with javascript and cookies which I don't understand, I'm not able to get all the free features offered by Sitemeter on this blog; I think I can only identify internal searches within the blogsite.