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A man aged 29 was arrested on 27 December after he crashed his car into a streetlight pole in Wenatchee, Washington, at 11.20pm. Witnesses told police he had been driving down Wenatchee Avenue and drifted into the wrong lane, against oncoming traffic. When police asked him what caused the accident, he apparently replied with a single word: “pterodactyl”. A breathalyser test showed “a minimal amount of alcohol”, said Wenatchee police Sgt Cherie Smith, although – bearing in mind the hallucinations of giant winged things in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – it was not said if he was tested for other drugs.