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A sheriff’s official in Arapahoe County, Colorado, admitted last month that deputies had inadvertently placed a 16-year-old girl in a holding cell with a 34-year-old man being held for sexual assault. The incident came to light after the girl reported to her lawyer that the man had molested her.
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In Tallahassee, Florida, police arrested 30-year-old Carl Franklin after they caught him with his pants down in public, apparently preparing to urinate. When they shouted at him, Franklin stuck his lit cigarette in his pants pocket, quickly pulled up his pants, and took off running. A few seconds later officers noticed that Franklin’s pants were on fire, but he didn’t stop until the waistband burned through and his pants came down, tripping him up.
The Australian cell phone company Telstra apologized recently for having abruptly closed the account of a cancer patient, allegedly because it wants accounts settled before they’re passed on to a deceased person’s estate.
In Seattle two police officers responding to a nonemergency call crashed into each other, totaling both cars and damaging a nearby SUV being driven by an undercover officer.
