12/26/96

Subject: diluting the gene pool

45 year-old Amy Brasher was arrested in San Antonio, Texas, after a
mechanic reported to police that 18 packages of marijuana were packed
in the engine compartment of the car which she had brought to the
mechanic for an oil change. According to the police, Brasher later
said that she didn't realize that the mechanic would have to raise the
hood to change the oil.

Portsmouth, R.I.  Police charged Gregory Rosa, 25, with a string of
vending machine robberies in January when he (1) fled from police
inexplicably when they spotted him loitering around a vending machine
and (2) later tried to post his $400 bail in coins.

Karen Lee Joachimmi, 20, was arrested in Lake City, Florida for
robbery of a Howard Johnson's motel. She was armed with only an
electric chain saw, which was not plugged in.

The Ann Arbor News crime column reported that a man walked into a
Burger King in Ypsilanti, Michigan at 7:50am, flashed a gun and
demanded cash. The clerk turned him down because he said he couldn't
open the cash register without a food order. When the man ordered
onion rings, the clerk said they weren't available for breakfast. The
man, frustrated, walk away.

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.

The Belgium news agency, Belga, reported in November that a man
suspected of robbing a jewelry store in Liege said he couldn't have
done it, "because he was busy breaking into a school at the same
time."  Police then arrested him for breaking into the school.

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 of 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.

Dave so-and-so of Anniston, Alabama, was injured recently after he
attempted to replace a tube like fuse in his Chevy pickup with a
22-caliber rifle bullet (used because it was a perfect fit). However,
when electricity heated the bullet, it went off and shot him in the
knee.