IN NOVEMBER, « man whose
name was withheld by reporters
was rescued by firefighters after
spending the night in the pit of an
outhouse ata boat landing gear
Eugene, Oregon. The man claimed
that he had been high after sniffing
glue, had heard someone calling for
help from the pit. had fallen in
while looking for him, and could
not get back out.

In October, ‘several rows of 25-
foot-high shelves filled with tons of
business records toppled over like
dominos at ProFile Systems in St.
Paul, Minnesota. ProFile stores
records for 85 clients, including
corporations and hospitals. “{t's the
ureatest disaster in the history of
the records business,” said ProFile

“chairman Jack Barry, who added
‘the company “can’t handle” the
US$2 million cleanup cost.

The Financial Post reported this
“week that the. environmental group
Greenpeace came close to acquiring
.a- Soviet. soldier in -Eastern
Germany i in 1991, but fost contact
_ with him ust before the unsuccess-

“ful coup in’ Moscow, The unnamed .

soldier: involved was a senior licu-

< tenant’ ‘in a-special unit guarding
“nuclear “weapons at a Soviet base at
_ Altengrabow, south of Berlin. :

Brazilian ‘legislator: ‘Joao Alves.

“the current subject of a corruption
that charges she

ainassed. the. equivalent of USSS|

Compiléd by A.P. McCredie

“.wealth by winning the lottery a

total of 24,000 times since 1988.

Gun expert Stephen Barlow, tes-
Uifying for the prosecution against it
man charged with murder'in Sais
Lake City, Utah, held the murder
weapon in his.hand and told the
jury that it could not possibly have

‘discharged by accidental jarring. as

the defendant had claimed. To
demonstrate, he placed a pencil in

the barrel. pointed it at the ceiling.
eand jarred the handle. The. gun fired

the pencil. and, continued to do.so
on two subsequent demonstrations.

“Oh. 'm/-sorry.”. Barlow told’ the,
.prosecutor.: The defendant: wus,
‘allowed
‘ianslaughter: instead of murder.”

to» plead) guilty, -io

Late'last: year, campus police at

“California ‘Polytechnic University

Jar. with”
retired Vermnot Federal employee :

at San Luis Obispo ejected David
Power Lawler, 40. from campus
after seven episodes in which they
say he stealthity approached
women in the library, dropped to
his hands and knees. and sniffed
their behinds, Describing his con-
frontation with Lawler. a police
investigator said, “The sweat was
running off his head, He looked
like a rain forest.”

Last summer. in Walnut Creek,
California, an unidentified woman
caused a therce-hour search Invelv-
ing police officers from two towns,
a search-and-rescue team (using
hastily printed photo posters).
Explorer scouts and several blood-
hounds when she reported her
three-year-old daughter missing
from the family car during a round
of errands. Upon returning home,
however, the woman found the giz!
and realized that she had nov taken
her on the errand

When Baltimore's old Vermont
Federal bank building was being
renovated for the new Harbor-Bank,
construction workers accidentally

Jocked. the safe, which had been.

gathering dust for six'years but

~which the new..bank. intended to
use, The workers quickly discov

ered that no ‘ne knew the combina-

“tion . Rather than pay a locksmith

(estimated at-USS10,000) ‘or ask an
imprisoned safecracker to try his
hand, the building owner place a
classified ad in the Baltimore-Sun
asking’ to hear from anyone’*famil-
the safe’s combination. A

came by and opened the safe. :

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