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Return
What Is Stolen
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Des Moines, Iowa:
A repentant burglar returned his loot to its owners, along with a
note explaining why: "My priest said I done a wrong."More than $200, a pair of sunglasses and some golf balls were found
Monday morning on the steps of Potthoff Foods Incorporated, a meat
wholesaler.
"He took my sunglasses, but I didn't know he took them until I got
them back this morning," sales representative Phil Barber said. "You
know, I don't think something like this happens that often. It's sort
of neat. The guy did wrong, but he tried to make it right."
The break-in at Potthoff's happened late Friday or early Saturday.
The thief pried open a door and rummaged through some desks.
Potthoff officials said they're not going to depend on the honesty of
thieves' nature in the future.
"We are adding an extra security system today," Barber said.
For people with lots on their agenda, Minnesota Mining &
Manufacturing Company creates 25-inch-by-30-inch Post-It Easel
Pads.
Robbing
A Locked Bank
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funny.
Wednesday, October 21, 1992
In Annandale, Va., two armed men rushed the front door of First
American Bank just after manager Dwight Smith opened up.
Unknown to the men, the door had locked automatically behind Smith.
The first robber bounced off the door hitting the second man.
They escaped in their van and have not been captured.
Scent
Makes You Gamble
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being true, the story is most likely strange, weird, surprising, or
funny.
Monday, December 7, 1992
In September, the Smell & Taste Treatment and Research Foundation
reported the development of an odor that makes gamblers bet more. In
a study in Las Vegas, slot machines outfitted to emit the odor racked
up 45 percent more business.
The neurologist who conducted the study predicted that the scent will
become widely used in Las Vegas.
Serving
On The Jury
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being true, the story is most likely strange, weird, surprising, or
funny.
Gene Robinson, 24, was arrested in Dayton, Tenn., after having sat
for part of a session as a member of a grand jury hearing drug cases.
He had already voted on 20 indictments when the next name that came
up was his. He raised his hand, said, "That's me," and excused
himself. His fellow members indicted him, and police arrested him at
his home a short time later.
Set
Up Hidden Cameras
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being true, the story is most likely strange, weird, surprising, or
funny.
December 18, 1992
Michael J. Schmidt, 29, set up a hidden video camera at his home near
Superior, Wis., because he had been burglarized several times and
thought he could catch the culprits in the act.
The burglars came back and were captured on tape, which Schmidt
turned over to the sheriff.
Among the items the burglars took from Schmidt's house was a box
containing eight marijuana plants.
Schmidt was charged with misdemeanor drug possession.
Shooting
The Computer
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From the Echoes-Sentines [?], Somerset County, NJ, Sept. 17, 1987:GILLETTE RESIDENT IS ARRESTED AFTER SHOOTING HIS COMPUTER
PASSAIC TWP. -- A Gillette man was arrested at his home last Thursday night after he fired eight bullets at his home computer, according to police.
The man, Michael A. Case, 35, of 64 Summit Ave., was arrested shortly after 11 p.m., at his house, when police said they received a report that shots were fired. They arrived at the home to find a .44 Magnum automatic handgun and a shot-up IBM personal computer with a Princeton Graphics System monitor.
The monitor screen was blown out by the blasts and its inner workings were visible, Lt. Donald Van Tassel said on Monday. The computer, which had bullet holes in its hardware, was hit four times while four more bullet holes were found in various areas next to the computer, Van Tassel said.
"The only thing he (Case) said was that he was mad at his computer so he shot it," Van Tassel said.
The handgun, which the lieutenant identified as an Israeli Arms Desert Eagle .44, has "a lot of firepower," he said. "It's a big gun." Case used hollow-point, or dum-dum, bullets, he added.
Case was surprised when police arrested him because he didn't think he was breaking the law, Van Tassel said. "He couldn't understand why he couldn't shoot his own computer in his own home," Van Tassel said.
Case was charged with recklessly creating a risk and using a firearm against the property of another, because the house is reportedly owned by a relative. The walls were also damaged by the shots, according to police.
He was also charged with unlawful possession of a firearm without a permit, and with possession of illegal bullets, police said.
In addition, Case was issued to summonses, for discharging a weapon in a restricted area and for discharging a single-projectile weapon, police said.
Case spent early Friday morning in the Morris County Jail and was released later in the day on $2,500 bail, according to police.
A Municipal Court appearance is scheduled for today, Sept. 17.
Sodom
Village Gone
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funny.
February 1, 1993
The Associated Press reported that the village of Sodom, Conn.,
disappeared, like its biblical namesake.
Though it appears on maps, the AP writer interviewed residents of
Sodom Road and the Sodom Corner intersection, both hallmarks of the
village of Sodom, and discovered that everyone claims now to live in
North Canaan.
Steal
Little Thing
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being true, the story is most likely strange, weird, surprising, or
funny.
February 17, 1993
In July, a Jackson Center, Pa., woman reported that someone used a
ladder to climb into the second story of her home and that all that
was missing was $10 worth of diapers, despite the presence of jewelry
and antiques in the same room.
Stealing
Six Barrel
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funny.
January 12, 1993
Long Beach police arrested two small, skinny men in October and
charged them with stealing six 45-pound barbells from the
Buffum-Downtown YMCA.
The men were struggling to keep the barbells in a small cart that
kept tipping over because they were not strong enough to steer it.
Stealing
The Camera
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being true, the story is most likely strange, weird, surprising, or
funny.
February 1, 1993
Raleigh, N.C., police charged Vernon Edsel Brooks, 34, with robbing a
Radio Shack in July, despite his foresight in disabling a video
surveillance camera by taking the camera with him as he fled.
Because he forgot to take the recorder to which the camera was
connected, police found a tape containing a full facial shot of
Brooks reaching for the camera.
Stop
Credit Card Fraud
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being true, the story is most likely strange, weird, surprising, or
funny.
Many folks have written with perfectly plausible explanations about
why merchants take my phone number on a credit card charge. What
these fail to address, however, is that if I'm perpetrating a fraud
in the use of this credit card, I'm not about to give out a correct
phone number. They make no effort to validate the phone number before
I leave, so what they're doing is collecting the phone numbers of a
bunch of honest people.
Now then... Why are they collecting the phone numbers of a bunch of
honest people?
I once asked why you are asked for your phone number when using your
charge cards. The clerk explained that thieves have been caught
because they stupidly put down THEIR home phone number, not the phone
number of the person who "owned" the card.
Strange
Grant Given
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LOS ANGELES TIMES, September 14:
According to a database maintained by Academic Guidance Services, there are 3,000 scholarships earmarked for golf caddies, newspaper carriers, glee clubbers, and band members.
Juanita College in Pennsylvania gives grants to needy left-handers.
Parents whose children were born on June 12, 1979 can plan ahead to apply for a scholarship to the Rochester Institute of Technology in honor of the school's 150th anniversary.
Bucknell University gives grants to students who do not use alcohol, tobacco, or narcotics and don't engage in strenuous activities.
A judge in Seattle uses the fines he collects from prostitutes to finance scholarships for their reformed sisters who want to return to school.
Strange
Headline News
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funny.
A bird dropped a snake over a California power station,
short-circuiting a line and causing a two-hour blackout.
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A Creighton University (Nebraska) Law School senior, told she
wouldn't graduate because of a failing grade on a final exam, sued
her professor, claiming he flunked her because she is "politically
incorrect."
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Biloxi, Mississippi, jurors acquitted a woman of drug charges, then
passed the hat to collect $55 to pay her bus fare home to Texas.
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A man allegedly held up 18 New York businesses after casing the
places while filling out job or rental applications. The spree ended
after he accidentally signed his real name on one of the forms,
police said.
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Harlan County, Nebraska, Assessor Floyd Schippert was unopposed in
the Democratic primary, and just to be sure, he entered -- and won --
the Republican primary also.
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Willie Turner wasn't running for the Dendron, Virginia, Town Council.
He didn't even vote. But he won with five write-in votes.
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A Hollywood, California man is accused of renting cars, selling them,
then stealing them back for return to the rental companies.
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Corpus Christi, Texas, police said it was a hit-and-gallop accident:
A man crashed his truck into the back of a car, then fled on the
horse he was pulling in the trailer.
Stringking
Statistic
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The odds of winning the California lottery by matching all six
numbers are 14 times greater than the odds of being struck by
lightening, according to Lottery magazine. the figure drops to nine
times greater in New Jersey, six times greater in Pennsylvania, and
four times greater in Connecticut.
Sudanese
Government
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being true, the story is most likely strange, weird, surprising, or
funny.
When the Sudanese government showed an interest in buying two Russian
transport planes to ferry supplies to famine-ridden ares in the
south, the acting Soviet ambassador allowed the Sudanese to test-fly
the aircraft. They flew to rebel-held Yirol and bombed the city,
pushing bombs out of the cargo doors.
Technology
Is To Bad
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funny.
Seattle, Washington:
The new U.S. Weather Service radar on Camano Island and atmospheric
profiler at Sand Point began to pick up a mysterious 20 mile per hour
wind out of the south each night about a month ago, a wind that
started about sunset and ended at dawn.
Forecasters finally realized the new instrument is almost too
accurate for its own good: It was detecting no wind, but the annual
nighttime migration of thousands of birds towards the north, said a
meteorologist.
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