[1950] in Humor
FW: Shallow Gene Pool
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron Quetzal Rogers)
Tue Mar 11 18:51:20 1997
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 18:41:44 -0500
To: humor@MIT.EDU
From: Aaron Quetzal Rogers <bigbird@MIT.EDU>
> 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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