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    Only 1 out of 700 identity thieves gets caught!
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    Amazing Plane Theft
    Amazing Plane Theft
    In 1956, for a bet whilst drunk, Thomas Fitzpatrick stole a small plane from New Jersey and then landed it perfectly on a narrow Manhattan street in front of the bar he had been drinking at. Then, two years later, he did it again after a man didn’t believe he had done it the first time.
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    It has been reported that rich people in China can hire "body doubles" to serve their prison time.
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    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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    The U.S. Government will not allow portraits of living persons to appear on stamps.
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    Organized crime is estimated to account for 10% of the United States' national income.
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    Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball.
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    Eighty percent of Americans will be the victim of violent crime at least once in their lifetime.
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