Britain's royal protection officers traded hardcore pornography and posed for "comical" photographs on the queen's throne, it has been claimed.

It has also been alleged that they hired firearms while drunk, sold steroids, ran gambling rings and fell asleep while on duty at Buckingham and St. James' palaces.

A 28-year-old man faces drunk driving charges after crashing his motorized bar stool.

Police in Newark say when they responded to a crash report, they discovered Kile Wygle, who had wrecked his bar stool powered by a deconstructed lawn mower, MSN news service reported.

Sleepy American motorists behind the wheels caused 1,550 deaths and 40,000 injuries a year, according to a report by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Another report by the National Sleep Foundation places a larger estimate on the negative effects of drowsy driving at 71,000 injuries and 5,500 deaths annually.

Medical experts compare the negative effects of drowsy drinking to driving under the influence. Dr. Carol Ash, medical director of the Somerset Medical Center's Sleep for Life, explained sleep deprivation for 18 hours makes a person feel drunk with an equivalent effect on the brain of a blood alcohol level of 1.0.

A drunk commodities broker was arrested Saturday after police say he set a freight elevator on fire at 7 World Trade Center in Manhattan, where he worked.

Port Authority Police say 24-year-old Ryan Brinkerhoff went to his office early Saturday morning, around 3 a.m., and got trapped in the elevator.

A survey of 2,500 adult Britons identified the karaoke as the most irritating invention. About 22 percent of survey participants picked the sing-along machine as their top choice.

It was followed by 24-hour sports channels with 17 percent, computer game consoles 12 percent, cellular phones 11 percent and alarm clocks 7 percent.