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hmm..before i start, i want to say i got this from msn. i thought it was amusing and worth sharing; i've been reading this column on the internet for quite a while.



According to police in Atlanta in January, Nathaniel Lee Stanley, 20, just released from jail, walked out and immediately carjacked a woman in the jail's parking lot (and was later returned to jail). And Ms. Kelly J. Handy, 37, who posted bond on burglary charges in Wheat Ridge, Colo., in March, picked up the wig and clothing that had been taken from her on her arrest, then went into a restroom, created a new look, and, according to police, immediately began stealing from residential mailboxes near the jail. [Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 1-11-04] [Rocky Mountain News, 3-20-04]


Richard Timmons' $80 million police brutality lawsuit went to trial in April in New York City, with Timmons acting as his own lawyer to persuade a jury that he deserved to be a rich man because he was "beat(en) continuously" during his 1997 arrest. The jury turned him down after a quick deliberation, perhaps in part because his crime (for which he was convicted) was a triple murder that included the beheading of his wife and 7-year-old son. [New York Post, 4-20-04, 4-21-04]


Not My Fault: Chef Michael McCarthy, 21, with about a year's experience in the kitchen of the Dalmunzie Hotel in Perthshire, Scotland, filed a lawsuit for the equivalent of US$42,000 against the hotel in January because he had badly cut his finger while slicing open an avocado. He said no one had taught him that unripened avocados were harder to cut than ripened ones. [BBC News, 1-4-04]


(1) "Trio Arrested for Breaking in and Performing Dental Work" (a December story in the Alexandria, La., Town Talk, about two people trying to help a friend who had lost part of a filling one night and couldn't wait until the dentist's office opened). (2) "Jail Teaches Prisoners to Shoot" (an April story in The West Australian, revealing that the Eastern Goldfields prison allows Aboriginal inmates to shoot air rifles because, upon release, they will return to a life of hunting animals for food). [Town Talk (Alexandria, La.), 12-23-03] [The West Australian, 4-30-04]


According to a February Reuters report, 15 hooded men were very apologetic while they robbed the priests of a Catholic monastery near Guaratingueta, Brazil, of the equivalent of US$6,200, but one of the crooks forced a priest to swear on a Bible that that was all the money they had. And officials of Canada's Algonquin Nation recently convinced the distributors of a popular, Arab-written, U.S. and Canadian high school student guide to Arab history to drop a passage on how Muslim explorers beat Christopher Columbus to North America and how "Algonquin Muslims" Abdul-Rahim and Abdallah Ibn Malik negotiated with English pilgrims. (A spokesperson for the distributor said she had no idea how the reference originated.) [Reuters, 2-2-04] [Washington Times, 4-16-04]



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