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IN August, Elsie Holdren, 68,
a security officer working on
contract at a courthouse in
Viera, Fla., was transferred by
her company to a courthouse
in nearby Melbourne because
her superiors thought she was
too courteous. “Due to your
caring and giving nature,”
wrote Holdren’s supervisor
(with Weiser Security Services
in Orlando), “You ave com:
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sveurity officer, (Being caning
and giving) is not a job
requirement, nor is it: what
you are paid to do.”

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the most widely circulated off-
beat stories of 1999 was the
Michigan
canocist, Timothy Boomer
under a seldom-used state law
banning public cussing. (He
used the F word at leas: 25
times, in an area occupied by
recreational boaters, including
many kids.) In May 2000,
Siouy Falls {S.D.) high school
senior Oakly Haines, who had
just won the gold medal in the
400-meter dash at the state
track tournament, was dis-
qualified when owo volunteer
officials overheard him cuss at
himself (“damn it” and “son

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door ovo miles up and dan-
gled for 30 minutes, and was
still hanging during the land-

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(Piusburgh). A 36-year-old
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the glove compartment fired
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ofa bitch”) that he had failed
to beat the record time of his
older brother. Said one of the
tating officials, “When you
have children, you wane them
to be exposed (only) to won-
derfill, good things.”

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