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DRAG RACING LEGEND Bry
Daddy Den Garhits. a Republican
candidate fora Florida congression:
a) seat. diy an interview in the Paha
Keach Post aWeged a government
vonspiracy to prepare the nation for
an inevitable currency devaluation:
“The government fears this is going
te happen. They're samirter thin we
are. They have aceess Co the big
computers.”

New York, New York --
According to the annual Firearms
Discharge Assault Report of the
New York Police Department, dis-
closed by Newsday in June, city
officers fired £55 shots at dogs in
1993 (mostly pit bulls), scoring hits
72% of the ime.

However, of the 1.195 shots at
human perpetrators, the success
rate was only 19%, and in gunfights
in which the target was Tess than
three feet away, the officers’ suc-
cess rate was still only 29%,

The quote’s the thing. José
Chavez, 24, on how he ascertained
that a skull he had found in a
garbage can in Lennox, California,
in May, was human: “I bit it on the
neck to make sure it was real.
That's how you test things.”

Said one of the tive Southern
California graffiti vandals, who call
themselves “artists’ and who were
arrested in San Francisco over the
July Fourth weekend: “We came
here to contribute something to this
town, and we end up in jail.” Said a
police spokesman: “They drove

(nore than 300 miles) to spray-
paint the city. That's a tong drive
just to be a jerk.”

Houston, Texas ~ Judy Pruitt.
23, mother of six children by six
different men, and who has seen
four of her children taken away by
Children’s Protective Services, was
asked why she continues to have
children. Said Pruitt, “I have to
keep replacing the ones they take.”

James Kimball, 71, who robbed
a bank in Hutchinson, Kansas, in
June 1993 and lived a life of luxury
for three months before being cap-
tured, said upon receiving a 124-
year prison sentence in Mav: “No
matter what they do to me, no mat-

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Iheh Port. North Carolina
Police affieer Gordon Snaden,
descobing a patrol call in duty tn
Which a man who had takea LSD
had fled up a tree, naked: “He was
able to actualize himself up the tree
but was nat able to actualize him
self down the tree.”

Belton, Missouri —~ Gregory N.
White. arrested for robbery of it
relail store earlier this year lost
most of the money during his get-
away: "Ein just a novice robber.”

A man who robbed a 25-yeur-
old woman at knifepoint in Sandy
Springs, Georgia last month, and
took cash and jewelry said to her:

“My life sucks: TH retum this stuff

back to you.”

The name's the thing. Arrested
on child molestation charges in
January in San Mateo, California,
was Kenneth Barbee Daul, sen-
tenced to 4% to nine years in prison
in connection with the death of his
wife in Towanda, Pennsylvania,
was Charles God.

In June, in a tragic accident in
the Connecticut River near Bath,
N.H., Donald Drown, 34, drowned.

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