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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.
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 A man in Johannesberg, 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.
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 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.
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 The Chico, California, City Council enacted a ban on nuclear
 weapons, setting a $500 fine for anyone detonating one
 within city limits.
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 A bus carrying five passengers was hit by a car in
 St. Louis, but by the time police arrived on the scene,
 fourteen pedestrians had boarded the bus and had begun to
 complain of whiplash injuries and back pain.
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 Swedish business consultant Ulf af 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 When two service station attendants in Ionia, Michigan,
 refused to hand over the cash to an intoxicated robber, the
 man threatened to call the police. They still refused, so
 the robber called the police and was arrested.
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 A Los Angeles man who later said he was "tired of walking,"
 stole a steamroller and led police on a 5 mph chase until an
 officer stepped aboard and brought the vehicle to a stop.
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 From: Dave

Wil Stark, wstark04 (at) pobox _dot_com

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