NP Topless woman causes power outage

[Doug Millison]

Sorry to interrupt the Best Book of the 20th Century debate, but this news
story is too good not to share:

Topless woman causes power outage

SEATTLE (AP) - A fire-breathing woman danced topless on an electrical
tower beside a freeway bridge for more than an hour this morning,
snarling rush-hour traffic and forcing a power outage to 5,000 homes
and businesses. The 37-year-old Olympia woman donned a halter top and
descended at the urging of police shortly before 9 a.m. She was
arrested for investigation of criminal trespass and indecent
exposure, police said. The woman was first reported at 7:26 a.m. on a
tower that carries electrical lines next to an interstate bridge over
the Lake Washington Ship Canal. Wearing only shorts, she was
gyrating, drinking vodka, spitting the liquor out of her mouth and
lighting it on fire. Seattle City Light cut power to protect the
woman, leaving 5,000 customers without electricity.