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Seven Tokyo schoolteachers were reprimanded in July for punishing two boys, ages 13 and 14, for bullying their classmates by burying them up to their necks in sand and leaving them on the beach for 20 minutes while waves swept over them.
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Thomas J. Schooley, 20, was arrested in Evansville, Indiana, in May for robbing two men who were coming out of an alley late at night. The men emptied their pockets, yielding 11 cents.
Two inmates at the Logan County jail in Utah were charged with various crimes in February after having made their third foray of the evening from the jail (the last time to set a fire in the sheriff’s office evidence room). They first escaped through a crawl hole to get beer from the wife of one of the three, then returned to jail. A few minutes later, they left to steal weapons and get more beer, then returned. After their third adventure, an officer noticed empty beer cans outside the office door.
