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Latest multiple-personalities excuses: Larry Sanders, dismissed from graduate school at the University of Illinois for plagiarism, filed suit recently for reinstatement, claiming that it was one of his secondary personalities who did it. In an Oklahoma trial, Floyd Allen Medlock, who had confessed to murder, denied that he had had his Miranda rights read to him beforehand, stating that the Miranda warning had been mistakenly administered to one of his secondary personalities.
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Luther Meadows, mayor of Nixa, Missouri, was charged in December with assault on a police officer after being stopped on suspicion of drunken driving. After some arguing, Meadows allegedly leaned into a patrol car and punched the officer in the chest. Meadows claimed he was only touching the deputy’s shirt to see whether or not it was foreign-made.
A man picked up by an ambulance in Perth, Australia, in July forced the evacuation of both the ambulance and two hospital emergency rooms. He was uncontrollably emitting poisonous fumes from various body parts due to industrial-strength pesticides he had swallowed.
