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Judge Don West found Melissa Thurston in contempt in April when she came to municipal court in Harrison, Arkansas, to answer a charge of failing to return video movies but arrived wearing no bra under her sweater. West later admitted that he could not see skin through the sweater but said that her breasts were “obviously showing.”
According to a Seattle police officer, a 68-year-old woman arrested for shoplifting four packs of cigarettes in February blamed the episode on Judge Wapner. She said she was driven to experiment after overhearing the judge tell talk-show host Pat Sajak that “everybody steals, at least once in their life.”
One of two horses killed by a truck on a highway near Houston in March was buried on the median strip by a uniformed burial crew. A representative of Houston’s solid waste management department whose crew arrived after the burial said he had no idea who the free-lance crew was or where it came from.
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