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Michael Nau won $15,000 from a radio station in Somerville, Alabama, when he dived into a wading pool full of cow manure and rotting vegetables in a “most outrageous stunt” contest in June.
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Arthur Freer was evicted in June from the garage he was renting in Evanston, Illinois, after the owner became suspicious because Freer was using it to store over one million pennies, in 235 bags, weighing over seven tons.
At least 14 cars and trucks had their tires punctured in a vandalism spree on May 13 in Mount Hope, West Virginia. Five days later, police charged Donald Ellison, 28, manager of the Fayette Tire Shop, with the attacks.
A masked man who was about to surrender to police in Meriden, Connecticut, earlier this year forced a woman to prepare a meatball grinder for him with her hands tied and a gun pointed at her back, because “I’m never going to eat this good stuff again.”
