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In September in Cleveland, Ohio, 49-year-old James Black dragged a naked, bloodied corpse out of his apartment house in broad daylight and left it on the lawn within feet of two dumbfounded maintenance workers. He looked at the men, then went back inside and emerged with a mop, which he used to swab the blood from the sidewalk outside his door. The workers immediately called police, who arrested Black (he was later charged with aggravated murder).
In July in Tbilisi (capital of the former Soviet republic of Georgia), an amateur wrestling match between Georgy Bibilauri (112 pounds, four feet tall) and Dzhambulat Khotokhov (123 pounds, three foot eleven) ended in a draw, after which both wrestlers broke training briefly to celebrate Bibilauri’s birthday with ice cream and chocolate. Bibilauri had just turned five years old; Khotokhov is four.
In April in Elmira, New York, 45-year-old Kevin French pleaded guilty to second-degree assault after shooting his neighbor in the head with a high-powered pellet gun, apparently because the man mowed his lawn too often. In July several Canadian papers reported that an inmate at a psychiatric prison in Abbottford, British Columbia, went into a violent rage and took a therapist hostage after other prisoners laughed at his attempt to draw “toilet paper” in a game of Pictionary. And in August in Bedford, Kentucky, 46-year-old Danny Ginn was arrested for commandeering a garbage truck at gunpoint because he was tired of it using his driveway to turn around.
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