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“He’s quite a guy” is how a water-department worker in Provo, Utah, described fellow employee Jerry Miller, who volunteered in December to lower himself into nine feet of raw sewage that was blocking the pipes in a residential neighborhood.
As of November, at least 72 commercial airline passengers had been arrested at New York’s Kennedy Airport because of X rays that showed heroin, wrapped in condoms or balloons, in their intestinal tracts.
A 45-year-old man walked into WTVJ-TV in Miami in April and told a receptionist he had a bomb, causing employees to flee. However, the man told one employee who stayed behind that the bomb was in his head, having been surgically implanted by the CIA in 1965 (though he later said the bomb seemed to have moved to his rectum). The station ran on automatic programming for a few minutes, showing mostly commercials, until the man was apprehended.
Two 15-year-old boys from Kansas City, Missouri, were arrested in Prairie Village, Kansas, in December for auto theft and leading police on a chase. Police were tipped off when the boys stopped at a police station to make a phone call, believing it was a convenience store. Their getaway took place at a speed of under ten miles per hour because of the ice-slickened street.
