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A physician in Daly City, California, writing in a medical journal in March, told of a patient who got relief from lower back pain by flying upside down in an open-cockpit biplane. The patient belts himself in tightly and says the only problem is that the engine stalls after about ten seconds, sending him into a dive during which he must restart it or crash.
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Miryam Perez of LaVerne, California, testified in March that her ex-boyfriend, Rafael Avila, broke into her apartment late one night, put the barrel of his gun into her mouth, and, in a three-hour ordeal, forced her to clean the apartment and make the beds, saying, “This is the way I wanted [you to behave].”
Michael McKenna, a 37-year-old bank teller in Norwalk, Connecticut, was charged with robbing a rival bank during his lunch hour one day in January. Said a police officer, “He punched out, robbed the bank, went home, left the money, punched back in.”
