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- Police in Wichita, Kansas, arrested a 22-year-old man at an airport hotel after
he tried to pass two (counterfeit) $16 bills.
- A man in Johannesburg, South Africa, shot his 49-year-old friend in the face,
seriously wounding him, while the two practiced shooting beer cans off each
other's head.
- A company trying to continue its five-year perfect safety record showed its workers
a film aimed at encouraging the use of safety goggles on the job. According to
Industrial Machinery News, the film's depiction of gory industrial accidents was
so graphic that twenty-five workers suffered minor injuries in their rush to leave
the screening room. Thirteen others fainted, and one man required seven stitches
after he cut his head falling off a chair while watching the film.
- The Chico, California, City Council enacted a ban on nuclear weapons, setting a
$500 fine for anyone detonating one within city limits.
- Swedish business consultant Ulfaf Trolle labored 13 years on a book about Swedish
economic solutions. He took the 250-page manuscript to be copied, only to have it
reduced to 50,000 strips of paper in seconds when a worker confused the copier
with the shredder.
- A convict broke out of jail in Washington D.C., then a few days later accompanied
his girlfriend to her trial for robbery. At lunch, he went out for a sandwich. She
needed to see him, and thus had him paged. Police officers recognized his name and
arrested him as he returned to the courthouse in a car he had stolen over the lunch hour.
- Police in Radnor, Pennsylvania, interrogated a suspect by placing a metal colander
on his head and connecting it with wires to a photocopy machine. The message "He's
lying" was placed in the copier, and police pressed the copy button each time they
thought the suspect wasn't telling the truth. Believing the "lie detector" was working,
the suspect confessed.
- In Ohio, an unidentified man in his late twenties walked into a police station with
a 9-inch wire protruding from his forehead and calmly asked officers to give him an
X-ray to help him find his brain, which he claimed had been stolen. Police were
shocked to learn that the man had drilled a 6-inch deep hole in his skull with a Black
& Decker power drill and had stuck the wire in to try and find the missing brain.
- In Modesto, California, Steven Richard King was arrested for trying to hold up a
Bank of America branch without a weapon. King used a thumb and a finger to simulate
a gun, but unfortunately, he failed to keep his hand in his pocket. |