LONDON - A British military pilot who used an army helicopter to deliver a pizza to his girlfriend has been disciplined, the Ministry of Defense said Tuesday.

The Lynx helicopter was on a map-reading training exercise in eastern England on Jan. 25 when it made a landing in the Stanford area, a Ministry of Defense spokesman said.

“The pilot took it upon himself to basically deliver this pizza,’’ the spokesman said. “He has been made aware that the chain of command doesn’t condone his actions and has been disciplined.’’

Ministry officials did not give release details of the punishment.

Joking about

lawyers is still legal

NEW YORK - A man arrested after telling lawyer jokes at a courthouse got the last laugh when a grand jury dismissed the disorderly conduct charge against him.

“It’s still legal in America to tell jokes - even about lawyers,” said 70-year-old Harvey Kash’s lawyer, Ron Kuby, about Monday’s decision.

Kash testified he was exercising his First Amendment right when he shared a few lawyer jokes with his friend, Carl Lanzisera, 65, as they waited to enter a Long Island courthouse last month.

Kash and Lanzisera are founders of Americans for Legal Reform, a group that uses confrontational tactics to urge greater public access to the courts. They said they have mocked lawyers outside courts for years.

“How do you tell when a lawyer is lying?” Kash reportedly asked.

“His lips are moving,” the pair howled in unison.

Clinton suffers prank calls...no, not that one

NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Prank calls are nothing new for the famously named Bill Clinton of North Little Rock, but never had they been as scary - or as high-tech - as this one.

Clinton, who is not related to the former president and Arkansas governor of the same name, was the victim of a dangerous prank late last month when another person used a computer to hack into a caller-ID system and hijack Clinton’s home number.

The prankster then called police to make it look like it was Clinton calling, said he had a gun to someone’s head and hung up. That caused armed officers to besiege Clinton’s home.

Computer experts say that few people know about “spoofing” programs, which are available on the Internet and were developed so that telemarketers can bypass caller-IDs.