But that instinct could have gotten her injured.

The man slammed on his brakes, causing her to nearly hit him. It also triggered another instinct in her involving a middle finger.

He got out of his car, pounded on her windshield, screamed obscenities and tried to open her locked car doors.

During the ordeal, she was on her cell phone with Salt Lake City police dispatch, but she was so frantic, it was hard to understand her.

The man then followed her to 500 South and turned off before police could get there. When an officer arrived at the spot she said she would be, she had left. She called dispatch later with Mr. Road Rage's license plate. But on traffic misdemeanors, state law says, with some exceptions, an officer must witness the offense to make an arrest, said Salt Lake police spokesman Jeff Bedard.

Cruel, unusual punishment: It's bad enough having to go to court, but imagine a pigeon egg dropping on your head while you are there.

That's what plaintiffs are alleging in a $500,000 suit filed in Fourth District Court against Schoppe Co., PHE Mechanical and Steve Bunting for alleged negligence.

Contractor Control alleges the defendants did not properly store ventilation ducts during construction of the Utah County Health and Justice Building and the ducts were infested with pigeon nests. Later, the suit says, during a court session, a pigeon egg and associated waste fell from ceiling vents.

The thought police? George Mercier has filed a civil rights suit in U.S. District Court for Utah against the U.S. government alleging that while residing in Nevada, he was harassed by helicopters because of his belief that "George Bush should be imprisoned." Mercier is acting as his own attorney.

This the place? JoAnne Rice enjoys morning walks in Liberty Park, except the one on July 25.

The park was littered with food, glasses, cups, diapers and baby bottles from revelers at the July 24 fireworks the night before. The city had cleaned it up by Thursday morning, but Rice doesn't understand why the Tuesday night celebrants couldn't use the many large trash cans in the park.

Close call: Orem police Sgt. Clarke Christensen, president of the Utah Law Enforcement Memorial Association, was on his way to a news conference in Salt Lake City announcing that Kennecott was making a generous donation to the memorial, when he nearly joined the list of names of those officers killed in the line of duty.

He was pulling over a speeder on I-15 when he was rear-ended by a semi - ironically transporting materials to Kennecott. Luckily he was not seriously injured, although his car was demolished.

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