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The Gene Pool is Alive
& Well..
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
And by the way I had nothing to
do with my voice or the
languages I speak. I had to learn Spanish to ask my mother for
food when I was hungry and I had to learn English to get
through the stupid school system..
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