Escape charges were lodged against a Buffalo burglary suspect last June
after he overpowered two city police officers without laying a hand on them.
In the words of the police report, the man "did escape from custody, in that
the defendant did flatulate in the car causing an exteme noxious odor
forcing officers to roll down all windows in the vehicle to ventilate it, at
which time defendant lunged his body out the side window.
-- Authentic incident
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From the April 9, 1990, London (Ontario, Canada) Free Pre
A suspect in Friday's armed robbery of a CIBC bank branch in London
was still free late Sunday after bluffing his way out of the city
police holding cells, posing as someone being held on a drunk charge....
Q: How many members of the U.S.S. Enterprise does it take to change a
light bulb?
A: Seven. Scotty has to report to Captain Kirk that the light bulb in
the Engineering Section is getting dim, at which point Kirk will send
Bones to pronounce the bulb dead (although he'll immediately claim
that he's a doctor, not an electrician)....