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In November on the Pacific islands of Fiji, British army recruitment officers interviewed and examined over 500 applicants, and reported encountering a large number of men with marbles sewn under the skin of their penises–a practice intended to heighten pleasure during sex. The marbles did not automatically disqualify a potential recruit, according to an Agence France-Presse report: one of the visiting officers, Captain Sarah East, said that 106 of the men will “probably” get into the army.
Mailbox Door Rage: In November in Lexington, Kentucky, 40-year-old George Krushinski was charged with planting bombs in a mailbox and in a postal employee’s vehicle because a weekend letter carrier had been leaving Krushinski’s mailbox door down. Wrong Socks Rage: In November in San Diego, high school student Trevor LeBlanc was awarded $25,000 in a lawsuit against his band director, Tom Cole, who’d chewed LeBlanc out for wearing orange socks instead of white at the 2001 Tournament of Roses parade. (Cole allegedly grabbed LeBlanc by the throat, shook him, and said, “I ought to wring your [expletive] neck.”)
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