Crime Criminals

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1. On average, 80 people shoot at the Goodyear blimp each year.

2. In Miami in August, Levon Howard lost a shoot-out with his roommate Edwin Heyliger. Howard broke into Heyliger's room, angry that someone had drunk his Kool-Aid, and in the ensuing argument, both scrambled for guns. source

3. In June 1995, in Liberty, Ohio, police officer Bradley L. Sebastian, tired of waiting for his food order at Denny's, stormed into the kitchen, held his gun to the cook's head, and told her he would kill her if she didn't hurry up. source

4. Chances that a drug offense by a black U.S. juvenile with no prior jail time will result in imprisonment: 48 in 100,000. Chance that a drug offense by a white juvenile with no prior jail time will do so : 1 in 100,000

5. In 1471, a chicken in Basel, Switzerland, was accused of being 'a devil in disguise' after laying a brightly colored egg. The chicken stood trial, was found guilty and burned at the stake.

6. The LAPD purchased 40 semiautomatic paint-ball rifles in preparation for this the April 2000 Democratic convention.

7. Lincoln was shot on April 14, 1865 on Good Friday and in 1995 Good Friday was also on April 14. When Booth shot Lincoln, some people thought it was part of the play.

8. A frightened Englishwoman rang the police emergency line, she could hear burglars, she was sure, drilling into her house from a building site next door. However, when the law arrived they found the rapid thumping noise was caused by a faulty sex toy, that was humming along all by itself in a bedside cabinet.

9. One Saturday, police received not one or two or ten but thirty five emergency calls from Razorback Stadium. The local team were "battering the oposition" (final score 58-6), but there was no clear emergency happening. Eventually the calls were traced to a fan with his trendy little cellphone tucked into a back pocket. Every time he stood up to cheer, and sat down he was hitting the 'one button dial' feature.

10. According to one study, people who keep guns at home nearly triple their chances of being murdered, usually by friends or relatives, but fail to protect themselves from intruders. However, Paul Blackman, research coordinator at the National Rifle Association, criticized the study, "These people were highly susceptible to homicide," he said. "We know that because they were killed."

11. A man was arrested in Belo Horizonte with tubes of glue stuck right up both nostrils. He died in custody. Someone called him Walrus face and he laughed so much he hemorrhaged.

12. De Sa, a glue sniffer who steals from shops to feed his habit, broke into a glue factory and started inhaling directly from the vats. He was overcome by fumes after one sniff and lost his balance, upsetting a vat of glue as he fell. By the time he came round, he was stuck to the floor and had to lie there until the workers turned up on Monday. According to Sergeant Paulo Quadros, of the Belo Horizonte police force, it took 12 men to saw through the floor, then De Sa and a dozen boards were taken into custody.

13. It is against the law to import ideas or pictures into Canada which depict "bootlicking in a sexual context." According to Canada Customs Notice N-198, depictions of "submissive acts such as the licking of another person's boot in a sexual context" are not allowed into the country.

14. A hunter in Uganda is being sought by local authorities for illegally hunting gorillas. He shoots them with a tranquilizer gun and dresses them in clown suits. So far six gorillas have been found wandering around in this condition.

15. President Franklin Pierce was arrested while in office for running over an old woman with his horse, but the case was dropped for insufficient evidence in 1853.

16. According to a British law passed in 1845, attempting to commit suicide was a capital offense. The offense was punishable by hanging.

17. The bible is not only the best selling book of all time, it is also the best selling book EVERY year! But then, the Bible is the most shoplifted book in the USA.

18. A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.

19. The slogan on New Hampshire license plates is 'Live Free or Die.' These license plates are manufactured by prisoners at the state prison in Concord.

20. Burglars in Larch Barrens, Md., tried to cut through a safe using a Lazer Tag gun.

21. Ben Chandler is the UK's most notorius criminal. He has been arrested over 100 times for crimes including drunk and disorderly, grand theft auto, murder and drug dealing, he has even got a cell in Camborne Police Station with his name on the chalk board all the time. He is only 17 years old!!!!

22. In St. Louis in October, 1994, according to police, Robert Puelo, 32, stole a hot dog from a 7-Eleven and left the store, cramming it into his mouth as he ran. Minutes later, Puelo choked to death on a 6-inch piece of the hot dog that lodged in his throat. source

23. Jorge Rodriguez, 22, went before a Kenosha, Wis., municipal judge in November, 1995, on a charge that he had hit a parked car while driving drunk. Rodriguez earnestly handed the judge a Monopoly-like "Get out of jail free" card that had been distributed by a candidate for sheriff as a gimmick during the just-ended campaign. Said the prosecutor, "Clearly, the defendant had the impression it was legitimate." Rodriguez received a fine and probation. source

24. John Beaver, a clothing storeowner in Rochester, New York, admitted to being a part of a fake robbery in 1994. He asked his friend Christopher Pelton to shoot him in the arm, but due to the other's bad aim he suffered a chest wound. He survived, but his girlfriend turned him in.

25. A Texan convicted of robbery worked out a deal to pay $9600 in damages rather than serve a two-year prison sentence. For payment, he gave the court a forged check. He got his prison term back, plus eight more years.