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The annual Wisconsin hunting-season accident report issued in August included accounts of a boy who shot himself in the hand when he used his rifle as a crutch to get up off the ground; a man who shot himself in the foot trying to hit a squirrel who was running nearby; and a man who was shot when the gun he dropped from a tree discharged upon hitting the ground.
Fugitive Mary Annette Cole, 33, wanted by police in connection with a robbery, was arrested in a Tulsa movie theater in August while watching The Fugitive.
A 60-year-old slaughterhouse worker was decapitated in Stockton, California, in June in an accident involving the machine that strips the hide off cows.
In August police in Berkeley, California, investigating a robbery were given the license plate number of the getaway car, which turned out to be a rental. They staked out the rental-car agency, and the next day the robbers were arrested when they returned the car to collect their deposit.
