Here's a tip: If you ever fall into a life of crime, make sure you don't fall into a bayou when the cops catch up with you. It's a lesson one man probably should have learned before he jumped into White Oak Bayou downtown during a chase Wednesday. According to Harris County sheriff's deputies, the man was posing as a parking attendant in a parking lot on Travis Street near Franklin, collecting $5 from people who were using the lot. A citizen noticed him and flagged a deputy down around 6 p.m.; when the deputy confronted the fake attendant, the man reportedly pushed the deputy and the two began fighting. The deputy then shocked the man with a Taser, but it didn't stop him: He took off on foot, pursued by the deputy and a Metro police officer.
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Houstonist has their season tickets for Roller Derby, do you? It's one of the best entertainment bangs for your buck, at $10/bout for 8 bouts the whole season is a mere $80 plus applicable fees. Here's where the fee part gets interesting, should you order your very own set of tickets (for the price, you need to have a "Derby Buddy", buy two - we did), order them directly from the Houston Roller Derby website...
A few months after the city approved a contract for fancy WiFi-connected parking meters downtown, the first of the new meters have gone online — and though there are still some kinks to work out, things seem to be going fairly smoothly. You might have seen the new meters along Travis Street or near the City Hall Annex — they're tall, grayish and topped by solar panels. The big deal with the meters isn't how they look, though; it's that they accept bills and credit cards in addition to coins, and eventually, you'll even be able to pay using your cell phone. But not quite yet.