The Associated Press
WEST BRANCH, Mich.–A 76-year-old woman riding a mobility scooter down the shoulder of Interstate 75 in northern Michigan received a warning and a ride home from a Michigan State Police trooper.
State police say the woman had finished shopping in West Branch on Wednesday afternoon and instead of taking a safer, legal route home, decided to take the expressway.
The Bay City Times reports that after several people called state police to report the slow-moving scooter traveller, Trooper Jeff Devine flagged the woman down, loaded the scooter into his patrol car and gave her a ride to her home about three miles away.
She had already travelled about one mile on the highway.
Devine issued the woman a warning.
In other unusual news from around the workd, emergency services were called to a landmark Hamburg church to fight a fire.
All they found was a swarm of gnats.
News agency dpa reports that Hamburg’s fire service said it was called to the St. Michaelis church by a man who reported seeing white smoke rising from the tower.
Firefighters who rushed to the scene couldn’t see any smoke. They combed the tower before finding the cause of the scare: a large swarm of small insects that apparently looked like smoke.
