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Latest self-inflicted testicle wound: In October Stanley Brown, 19, snatched a woman’s purse in Miami at gunpoint, fired two shots at her (but missed), and while running away tried to stuff the gun into his waistband, causing it to fire. According to a witness, Brown ran a few more steps, stopped, pulled back his waistband to take a look, and said, “I’ve been shot.”
Derick Grace, 22, a three-time convicted felon who had been released on parole near Fort Lauderdale in September, was allegedly involved in two bank robberies in October and led police on a two-county car chase and gun battle before escaping. He was caught the next day after he had registered for the night at a motel in Dania, Florida, using his correct name and prison ID number on the register and naming “Department of Corrections” as his employer.
After attempting a burglary in September in Larkspur, California, two men, ages 16 and 18, scaled a chain-link fence outside town to evade police who were following them, only to discover later that the fence was the outer perimeter of San Quentin prison, where guards arrested them.
Despite the upheavals in Eastern Europe, the government news agency of North Korea reported that 100 percent of those eligible to vote in North Korean elections on November 19 had exhibited “a high degree of political enthusiasm” for the Communist Party candidates.
