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A 22-year-old, formerly long-haired man was arrested and charged with vandalism in Hengelo, the Netherlands, in December after he allegedly caused $50,000 damage to a barbershop. The man said he’d grown increasingly upset because two weeks before a barber had gone overboard in response to his request for a “slight trim.”
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Beatings in the news and their provocations: Larry Dean Weaver, 27, of Allentown, Pennsylvania, punched his mother in frustration in February because he couldn’t connect his VCR to his TV set; Jose Archuleta, 32, of San Antonio attacked the driver of an ice cream truck in March because it repeatedly played “Pop! Goes the Weasel” over the loudspeaker; Tracy and John O’Donnell of Westport, Connecticut, brawled on their wedding day in August after Tracy thought John was pushing cake into her mouth too hard.
Victor Shaw, 56, was arrested near White River Junction, Vermont, in April after trying to break through a police “rolling roadblock” on Interstate 89. Shaw, who was charged with DUI and other offenses, said, “I saw it so many times in the movies I had to try it.”
In October Deptford, New Jersey, politician Mike Mostovlyan told the Philadelphia Inquirer that he hadn’t intended to mail two large dead fish to his political foe deputy mayor Bea Cerkez. Actually, said Mostovlyan, he’d intended to mail the fish to a friend in Puerto Rico and a book to Cerkez and simply mislabeled the packages.
