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T. Milton Street, assistant budget director of the Philadelphia Traffic Court, refused in November to pay the $1,967 in fines for moving vehicle violations he has accumulated. Said Street, “Why should I pay? They [the traffic court] violate people’s rights every day.”
Officials for a state food-inspection service in West Germany ruled last July that “edible ladies’ underwear” sold in pornography stores was “unfit for human consumption.” For example, the “Cherry-Flavored Love Bikini” contained illegal ingredients despite the seller’s claim of “high-grade savory components.”
In November Emanuel H. Norris, purchasing director for the Kansas City School District, sent a memo to the district’s 6,000-plus employees for the sole purpose of requesting that everyone spell his name correctly.
Mayor Geraldine Dixon of Blacksburg, South Carolina, was charged last February with shoplifting two Valentine’s Day cards and a candle from a Wal-Mart.
