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  • Unusual excuses prompt judge to pen book about spring break

    11/15/2005 7:46:34 AM PST · by WestTexasWend · 14 replies · 1,082+ views
    Associated Press ^ | Tuesday, November 15, 2005
    SOUTH PADRE ISLAND (AP) - Making out with palm trees. Mistaking police cars for taxi cabs. Rolling a stolen restaurant barbecue down the road, flames shooting up from the chicken cooking on the grill. Such spring break hijinks have earned municipal Judge David Colwell's morning-after docket the reputation as one of the best shows in town. Colwell said friends suggested that the judge begin recording some of the more memorable anecdotes. Over nine years, he has collected these into a self-published, 98-page tome, "Spring Break: A Judge's View from the Bench" being sold at local bookstores. Although Colwell recounts some...