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Archives: An unusual fender bender

From DFO's files (May 25, 1992):

Bill Bozlee thought he'd give one of the rookie cops a break a couple of Sundays back. The watch commander for the Coeur d'Alene Police Department decided to handle a fender-bender in front of the North Idaho Museum on Northwest Boulevard himself. Wrong move! Bozlee found a carload of Chinese tourists plowed into the back of a car driven by a woman who was 8 1/2 months pregnant. She was the only one who spoke English and was suffering pains not entirely caused by the accident. Bill knew he had further problems when one of the tourists began spelling his name with the letter "Hedge." Another tourist drew one of those little doodahs you see in the window of the Chinese Gardens restaurant on Fourth to indicate which town he was from. Bill finally got the mess sorted out and declared the tourist season officially under way.



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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