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Last month in Kobe, Japan, an unidentified young man leaped from between the cars of an express train traveling at 60 miles per hour, landed on a station platform, and walked away, apparently unhurt….And in March two teenage boys were hospitalized with gunshot wounds in Michigan City, Indiana, after they and other boys encircled an older man on the street and began firing at him. The man was not hit.
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Last month Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi visited drought-stricken Malawi in southern Africa, bringing along his personal jet; an entourage occupying two Boeing 707s; two security buses loaded with machine guns, assault rifles, and rocket launchers; his own mobile hospital; and 70 armored vehicles for the cross-country drive (one of them stocked with currency worth $6 million, much of which he tossed to villagers along his route).
Two months ago in Sudbury, Ontario, 35-year-old Norman Micallef hit a moose with his van, and an officer who stopped to help noticed a scent that turned out to be $325,000 worth of marijuana plants in the back….And in May rival gang members in Torrance, California, began to confront one another over a shooting incident when two F-15 fighter jets flew by, low to the ground; apparently unaware that the jets were part of a nearby Armed Forces Day parade, the panic-stricken gang members dispersed.
