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The Toronto Transit Commission voted in February to reinstate a 33-year-old man who’d been fired because he took time off from a rail-repairing job in the middle of the day to have sex with a prostitute in a nearby alley.

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The Los Angeles Daily News reported in April that the city’s department of building and safety had ordered an adult nightclub to remove its stage, a large shower where nude dancers would cavort for the customers’ enjoyment. Authorities said the shower wasn’t wheelchair accessible, although no one seemed to have heard of any disabled nude dancers.

In September Saint Paul, Minnesota, police stopped Jimmy Monk, 39, and confiscated from his car’s roof a 20-foot ladder that had been reported missing. At the time he was awaiting sentencing on two other ladder thefts and was a suspect in about two dozen others. Said a police sergeant, “He just can’t seem to walk past [a ladder] without taking it.”

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