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Five businessmen near Wildwood Crest, New Jersey, were charged in July with endangering swimmers by dumping high-potency chlorine tablets into the ocean in order to reduce the high levels of fecal coliform bacteria, publicity about which was interfering with tourism.
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A driver for the Vogel Disposal Company, trying to avoid a collision near Akron in April, slammed on his brakes even though he knew that his cargo–300 gallons of human waste–would ooze to the front of the truck, over the cab, and onto the highway.
Robert Arthur Magoon, 19, separated from his father since birth, was reunited with him recently when both showed up at the Santa Clara County Jail in California, the son for violating parole and the father for robbery.
In a recent crackdown on unpaid parking tickets, Houston police found that of the top 100 scofflaws, 41 were lawyers, who averaged 88 unpaid tickets. Said one offender: “It’s not that we think we’re above the law. It’s just that legal-looking notices don’t have the same impact on us as on most people.”
E. Frenkel, a Soviet mentalist who claimed to have stopped bicycles and cars and who had announced his desire to take on something more challenging, was killed when he tried to stop a freight train in the southern city of Astrakhan in September.
