Unicorn chaser - no, literally.: "Xeni Jardin:
A 42 year old Montana man told cops he wasn't to blame for crashing his truck into a light post -— because a unicorn was behind the steering wheel at the time.

Prosecutor Ingrid Rosenquist said Phillip C. Holliday Jr. initially denied driving the truck involved in the March 7 crash in Billings. He told officers at the scene that a unicorn was driving, she said.

Link. BELIEVE. (Thanks, W. Vann Hall)

Reader comment: Doran says,

No doubt in an effort to hide the true existence of unicorns, authorities are now saying that Phillip Carston Holliday Jr. did *not* tell officers that a unicorn was driving his car when it smashed into a light pole. Apparently the MIB^H^H^H prosecutors use the 'unicorn defense' as a code for when a person claims someone else (who can't be found) was driving a car. In this case, Mr. Holliday told police that a woman had been driving, not a unicorn. The county attorney is quoted as saying 'Mr. Holliday has other serious problems, but this is not one of them'. Link.

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(Via Boing Boing.)