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In November Mayor Carty Finkbeiner of Toledo told reporters that the best solution for the increasing noise at the airport was to have deaf people buy the homes of the complainers. (Several days later he apologized.)
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An alleged drug courier was arrested near Rigaud, Quebec, in August after his car broke down and police found 700 pounds of hashish stuffed in the trunk. The driver had a flat tire but couldn’t replace it because the spare had been removed to increase storage space for the hashish. When the tire went flat, the weight in the trunk broke the car’s rear suspension. The courier got away, but the hashish he abandoned was worth 5.2 million Canadian dollars.
In September Professor Malcolm Wilkins of Glasgow University told a conference at Loughborough University in England that vegetarians are cruel to plants. “Plants are sensitive organisms,” he said, claiming that some plants emit crackling noises (inaudible to humans) when they need water. Wilkins said he’s especially annoyed at vegetarians who “don’t like animals being killed. I say to them, “You are perfectly happy to slice up a tomato or cucumber. Where is your logic?”‘
