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Plant City, Florida, police arrested a 17-year-old free-lance “police officer” in January and charged him with stopping motorists and “scolding” them for minor traffic infractions.
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A new Italian magazine, Hooligans, says it is dedicated to “soccer fans and skinheads” who don’t “love” violence “but who don’t fear it, either.” The first issue, which sold out, included an editorial praising violent British soccer fans. “Violent and aggressive, the English football fan does not limit himself to self-defense as the Anglo-Saxon culture dictates, but actively seeks provocation and clashes.”
Bruno Basic, 46, of Cambridge, Ontario, was convicted of driving while impaired by alcohol in February despite his explanation of why his blood-alcohol reading was so high. Basic said he was perfectly sober at the time of the crash but that a good samaritan bearing liquor just happened to be at the scene of the accident and gave Basic several drinks to calm him down before police arrived.
