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Brad Pitt Joins Russian Police Force
Officials in Omsk, Serbia, have come up with an ingenious way to
force people to slow down in their municipality: they are using
cardboard cutouts of actor Brad Pitt dressed as a police officer
and positioning him at key speeding sites in the city.
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Stupid Criminal #3,487
An attempted armed car theft turned into a successful arrest when
an Illinois woman forced the robber to follow her to the local
sheriff’s office. The woman was at a traffic light when the man
pointed a gun at her and demanded her car. She bolted and called
911.
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Flags For the Taking
Police in Lemoyne, PA, are trying to combat a rise in complaints
of near-collisions with pedestrians at one busy intersection by
distributing orange safety flags to crossers. The town has
placed two bins at each side of the intersection, one for people
to pick up the flags and another to deposit them after they
cross.
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Sometimes You Feel Like A Nut. . .
Although there are various biodiesel fuels being
concocted—everything from something offered by Willie Nelson (we
have a notion of what plant is used for that—at least the stems)
to people who essentially go dumpster diving behind fast-food
joints—Evonik Degussa has
come up with a new biodiesel source: nuts.
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Size Matters
A family traveling on a Swiss motorway got the shock of a
lifetime when all four of the cars wheels came off at the same
time, right in the middle of the highway. Thankfully, the car
came to safe stop and no one was injured.
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