This from the NYTimes News Service: Admitting his 0-4 record is not impressive 'on paper,' trainers announced that 'Lucky,' a German shepherd guide dog for the blind in Wuppertal Germany, is available for his fifth owner. Lucky led his first owner in front of a bus, killing him. And the second off the end of a pier, drowning him. He nudged his third owner off a railway platform in front of the Cologne-to-Frankfurt express, killing him. And he walked his fourth owner into heavy traffic, abandoning him to be hit and killed. The new owner won't be told of Lucky's record - they say the dog might sense nervousness 'and do something silly.' ----------------- PARIS (Reuters) - A cyclist stopped by police for riding the wrong way down a one-way street turned out to be a trainee policeman who was illegally carrying a gun and who admitted he was on his way to buy drugs. A police spokesman said on Tuesday that the would-be law enforcer told police he was carrying the handgun because the neighborhood where he planned to buy drugs was unsafe. "This is not exactly the type of element we want in our ranks and I think his presence in police school is about to come to an abrupt end," the spokesman told Reuters. --------------- A bicyclist who confronted three well-dressed men walking to their hotel in Alexandria, Virginia, pointed what looked like a 9mm semi-automatic handgun at them and demanded money. The three men turned out to be off-duty federal agents, who drew their own weapons and fired more than 20 shots, hitting the would-be robber, as well as three cars, a truck, two homes and an office building. The injured suspect's weapon turned out to be a pellet gun. --------------- In Mexico, three armed state police officers surrounded a car containing the eldest son of President Ernesto Zedillo and demanded money, apparently unaware of their victim's identity. They learned it soon enough when another car containing presidential bodyguards stopped, and the guards overpowered the police. --------------- Last year, the Army issued Bronze Stars to seven members of the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment for "meritorious achievement" during the Persian Gulf war, even though their achievement was mistakenly firing on U.S. troops, killing one and wounding another. (5/8/96) --------------- Redondo Beach, California, police officer Joseph Fonteno stopped a car after observing it heading along the Pacific Coast Highway with half of a traffic-light pole on its hood and the signal lights still attached. Fonteno said that when he asked about the pole, the driver replied, "It came with the car when I bought it." --------------- 1991 -- Police in Doylestown, Pa., arrested Alfons Kessler, 47, in March for attempting to murder his girlfriend's husband. It was Kessler's fifth attempt at the man. He had been unsuccessful using a gun, a truck, a Molotov cocktail and a crossbow, and this time was unsuccessful using a pipe bomb. 1992 -- Gary Blantz, 29, was arrested for kidnapping a bar owner near Lancaster, Pa., in February. Police reported later that Blantz shot himself in the foot with his .45-caliber revolver to show the victim what would happen to him if he were disobedient. 1991 -- In Phoenix, Ariz., Alfred Lavers, 48, argued unsuccessfully earlier this year that he should not receive the death penalty for slowly and torturously stabbing his wife and stepdaughter to death. Lawyers argued that the law discriminates against poor people who cannot afford expensive guns in order to commit murder and therefore must rely on crude weapons that kill slowly.