In 1968, a car driven by bank employees was pulled over by a motorcycle cop claiming the car had been rigged with a bomb. The cop got under the car to “defuse” the device. When the car started to smoke, everybody ran. Then the “cop” just drove the car away. The 300,000,000 Yen robbery remains unsolved to this day.
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In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.
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A Missouri family sued the previous owners of a house that they had just bought after Brown Recluse Spiders "started bleeding out of the walls." An expert came in and estimated that the house was infested with 4,000 – 5,000 of the spiders.
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Some British police cars carry a teddy bear to console children after an accident.
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The IRS employees tax manual has instructions for collecting taxes after a nuclear war.
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There’s a law in Canada called the “Apology Act” which prevents parties from using an apology as a statement of fault in court.
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