It seems like it could be a storyline out Steven Spielberg’s 2002 movie, Minority Report: a Minnesota man was convicted of a DUI offense in a car that wasn’t moving. What’s even more surprising: the car wouldn’t start at all.

As it turns out, getting a bit tipsy and stumbling out of the house to sleep it off in the car may make you a felon. It happened to Daryl Fleck.

That he’d consumed about twelve beers is not in dispute. His felony conviction for drunk driving, even though his car was not running and legally parked, has earned him 48 months in custody and five years of probation.

It started one night in 2007, when when a neighbor at Fleck’s apartment complex alerted police, they found him sleeping in his car, with the driver’s side door still open.

The keys to the car were in the center console, far from the ignition. The engine was cold, and Fleck hadn’t even been listening to the radio.

Some argue that DUI laws have gone too far, “What do you think?”

AOL Autos

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After texting 90999 almost 200 times and donating $1,880 to the Haiti relief efforts, Washington teen Cara Peacock found out something she didn’t know — the money was being billed to her phone.

“I thought it was just a free thing,” she told friends on Facebook.

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Missing Money gives you the tools to find your unclaimed property. Just enter your name and state in the search boxes. You should search each state you’ve lived in.

If you find something, the site will help you claim it. Missing Money works with many state governments. And the National Association of Unclaimed Property Administrators endorses it.

Common types of unclaimed property include:

* Bank accounts and safe deposit box contents
* Stocks, mutual funds, bonds, and dividends
* Uncashed checks and wages
* Insurance policies, CD’s, trust funds
* Utility deposits, escrow accounts

MissingMoney.com

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As the science scandals keep coming, the air has gone out of the climate-change movement

In 2007, the most comprehensive report to date on global warming, issued by the respected United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, made a shocking claim: The Himalayan glaciers could melt away as soon as 2035.

These glaciers provide the headwaters for Asia’s nine largest rivers and lifelines for the more than one billion people who live downstream. Melting ice and snow would create mass flooding, followed by mass drought. The glacier story was reported around the world. Last December, a spokesman for the World Wildlife Fund, an environmental pressure group, warned, “The deal reached at Copenhagen will have huge ramifications for the lives of hundreds of millions of people who are already highly vulnerable due to widespread poverty.” To dramatize their country’s plight, Nepal’s top politicians strapped on oxygen tanks and held a cabinet meeting on Mount Everest.

But the claim was rubbish, and the world’s top glaciologists knew it. It was based not on rigorously peer-reviewed science but on an anecdotal report by the WWF itself.

“The global warming movement as we have known it is dead,” the brilliant analyst Walter Russell Mead says in his blog on The American Interest. It was done in by a combination of bad science and bad politics.

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The much-discussed and ‘controversial’ Focus on the Family ads featuring Pam Tebow and her son, 2007 Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow, that aired Super Bowl Sunday (Feb. 7, 2010) on CBS.

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