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A Macon County, North Carolina, man, showing off in front of friends in May, grabbed a rattlesnake out of the back of a truck and began kissing it on the body and head and slapping his hand with the snake’s open mouth. When his hand began bleeding, he threw the snake back in the truck and drove off in his own truck. Police, who arrived at the scene later, alerted the local hospital to be ready.
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Five Miami fire fighters were disciplined in December for hazing a visiting fire fighter by tying him to a chair and playing “scrotum on the head,” in which one man drops his pants and steps over the sitting victim so that his genitals graze the man’s face. The practice came to light after the visiting fire fighter broke free and squeezed the man’s genitals.
Tokyo police proposed in May that the maximum fine for illegal parking be raised from about $200 to about $1,340.
