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In January an Ontario, California, police officer gathered evidence for an arrest by buying heroin from two people selling from the back window of a motel room. All the undercover officers in his unit had gone home for the evening, so he tried making the buy dressed in full uniform. He was successful because the sellers’ peephole allowed them a view only of the buyer’s face.
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The Texas Court of Appeals last year turned down Billy Ray Ford’s appeal of his conviction for robbery for a series of reasons, one of which was his answer to a question posed by the judge at his trial. When asked whether he had had any contact out in the hallway with witnesses against him, he answered yes. When the judge asked which witnesses, Ford replied, “The ones that I robbed.”
Etamet, a manufacturer in Saint Gall, Switzerland, has come up with Speedy Spaghetti, a vending machine that produces a plateful of al dente spaghetti within 50 seconds after the customer puts money in.
