Kids can be a distraction, especially if one is in the back seat of your car with a "snot rocket" hanging from his nose. Colleague Taryn Brodwater faced this situation recently. So she handed her 5-year-old son a tissue to blow his nose. Moments later, she heard: "Here, Sissy." That's when she saw her youngest wiping her face with the booger rag. And the flashing lights of a Post Falls PD cruiser in her rear-view mirror. She writes about what happened next in her BrodH2O blog. The PFPD Blue asked if she knew she was going 35 in a 25 mph zone. As she explained the situation, her son yelled from the back seat: "Mom, are you going to jail?" Then: "Mom, you know it's OK to speed on go-carts, but you shouldn't speed on the roads." Luckily, the PFPD Blue understood Taryn's predicament. He musta been a dad. Taryn got off with a warning. Then the patrol officer went above and beyond, giving the urchins certificates for free breadsticks and PFPD Blue stickers that they stuck to their shirts and wore proudly the rest of the day. May his kind increase.

•The Naked Guys at North Idaho College (Thursday Huckleberries) did well in the 15-way race for four ASB Student Senate seats, finishing fourth and fifth. Travis Temple nipped Spencer Butterfield by one vote, 204 to 203, to win the final seat. Both posed nearly nekkid for controversial campaign posters. Now Huckleberries hears that a femme candidate set up a kissing booth to promote her campaign. Dunno how she did. But her approach beats mud-slinging.

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