When a man attempted to siphon gasoline from a motor home parked on a Seattle
street, he got much more than he bargained for. Police arrived at the scene to
find an ill man curled up next to a motor home near spilled sewage. A police
spokesman said that the man admitted to trying to steal gasoline and plugged
his hose into the motor home's sewage tank by mistake. The owner of the
vehicle
declined to press charges, saying that it was the best laugh he'd ever had.

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A woman was reporting her car as stolen, and mentioned that there was a car
phone in it. The policeman taking the report called the phone and told the guy
that answered that he had read the ad in the newspaper and wanted to buy the
car. They arranged to meet, and the thief was arrested.

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David Posman, 33, was arrested recently in Providence, R.I, after allegedly
knocking out an armored car driver and stealing the closest four bags of
money.
It turned out they contained $800 in pennies, weighed 30 pounds each, and
slowed him to a stagger during his getaway so that police officers easily
jumped him from behind.

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Drug-possession defendant Christopher Johns, on trial in March in Pontiac,
Michigan, said he had been searched without a warrant. The prosecutor said the
officer didn't need a warrant because a "bulge" in Christopher's jacket could
have been a gun. Nonsense, said Christopher, who happened to be wearing the
same jacket that day in court. He handed it over so the judge could see it.
The
judge discovered a packet of cocaine in the pocket and laughed so hard he
required a five-minute recess to compose himself.

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Drug traffickers used a propane tanker truck entering El Paso from Mexico.
They
rigged it so propane gas would be released from all of its valves while the
truck concealed 6,240 pounds of marijuana. They were clever, but not bright.
They misspelled the name of the gas company on the side of the truck.

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Oklahoma City -Dennis Newton was on trial for the armed robbery of a
convenience store in a district court this week when he fired his lawyer.
Assistant district attorney Larry Jones said Newton, 47, was doing a fair job
of defending himself until the store manager testified that Newton was the
robber. Newton jumped up, accused the woman of lying and then said, "I should
of blown your [expletive] head off." The defendant paused, then quickly added,
"-if I'd been the one that was there." The jury took 20 minutes to convict
Newton and recommend a 30-year sentence.

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R.C. Gaitlin, 21, walked up to two patrol officers who were showing their
squad
car computer equipment to children in a Detroit neighborhood. When he asked
how
the system worked, the officers asked him for a piece of identification.
Gaitlin gave them his driver's license, they entered it into the computer, and
moments later they arrested Gaitlin because information on the screen showed
that Gaitlin was wanted for a two-year-old armed robbery in St. Louis,
Missouri.