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In October a young couple had to be treated for hypothermia at a Gernsheim, Germany, clinic after the parked car in which they were having sex rolled down a boat ramp into the Rhine River. The man who owned the car, who wasn’t in it at the time, was cited by authorities for the water pollution caused by leaking gasoline.
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A man whose name was withheld by reporters was rescued in November by fire fighters after he spent the night in the pit of an outhouse at a boat landing near Eugene, Oregon. The man claimed he’d been high after sniffing glue, had heard someone calling for help from the pit, had fallen in looking for him, and couldn’t get out.
Bowling Green, Ohio, fire fighters responding to a blaze in December discovered that they couldn’t connect to the nearest hydrant because a 900-foot hose had fallen off their truck en route. Fortunately fire fighters from nearby Weston arrived with the proper hose. Said Chief Joe Bums, “We’re going to have to take a look at maybe a better way to keep it up there [on the truck].”
In November campus police at California Polytechnic University at San Luis Obispo ejected David Potter Lawler, 40, from campus after seven episodes in which they say he stealthily approached women in the library, dropped to his hands and knees, and sniffed their behinds. Describing his confrontation with Lawler, a police investigator said, “The sweat was running off his head. He looked like a rain forest.”
