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A gang of grease thieves burglarized restaurants in Dallas in January, making off with more than seven tons of scrapings from griddles and deep-fat fryers. According to police, the “stinky, rotten” grease has a resale value of about 13 cents a pound; it’s used in cosmetics and cow feed.
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In October a newspaper in Toulouse, France, turned down an advertisement from a 42-year-old woman offering one of her kidneys to any employer who would give her a job. She said she was “ashamed of this assistance money I’ve been getting.” And in March a 71-year-old World War II veteran fed up with Department of Veterans’ Affairs delays placed an ad in a Sandusky, Ohio, paper offering to sell one of his eyes or kidneys so that he could afford a long-overdue knee operation.
In October police chief Robert Thompson of Rumney, New Hampshire, was charged with misconduct in arresting Thomas Phelan. The prosecutor alleged that the arrest was made so that Thompson could spend more time with Phelan’s wife. In arresting Phelan, Thompson had acted on an anonymous informant’s tip that Phelan planned to kill Thompson, but the informant turned out to be Mrs. Phelan. Later in the month a judge dropped the charge against Thompson, but the prosecutor is appealing.
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Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): illustartion/Shawn Belschwender.
