Driver Bryan Parslow, 19, injured himself and three passengers when he crashed into a tree near Wheatland, N.Y., in May. He was playing “hold your breath” with the others and passed out. And in July, Lora Hunt, 49, was sentenced to 18 months in jail in the crash that killed a woman on a motorcycle in Lake County, Ill., in 2009. Hunt was so preoccupied painting her nails (polish was splashed all over the car’s interior) that she never even moved to apply the brakes before the collision. On the other hand, Amanda McBride, 29, is such an excellent multitasker that she was able to drive herself to the hospital in Bemidji, Minn., in May while giving birth. (Her husband was in the front seat but, seizure-prone, he does not drive.) The child emerged just as Amanda pulled into the hospital parking lot. “(H)e just slid out,” she said. “It really wasn’t bad at all.”
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Today's services, Saturday, Feb . 4, 2012
Amundson, Patricia, services 11 a.m. at St. Luke¹s Lutheran Care Center in
Blue Earth.
Arvidson, Duane, services 2:30 p.m. at Kasota Presbyterian Church.
Citrowske, Cindy, services 10 a.m. at St. Mary¹s Catholic Church in New Ulm.
Meyer, Florence, services are 10:30 a.m. at St. Anne¹s Catholic Church in Le
Sueur.
Mueller, Theodore, services 11 a.m. at Trinity Lutheran Church in Madelia.
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