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Reading, Pennsylvania, fire department official Michael J. Moyer was suspended for a day without pay last October 12 for having violated a directive not to drive his department car in the town’s Labor Day parade. Moyer wasn’t paid that day for his regular 8 to 6 shift, but the person called in to replace him had to be paid overtime. Moreover, regulations required that person to give up his own subsequent shift, and the person who filled it, also paid overtime, was Moyer–who thus earned $313 for his day’s work instead of the $155 he would have made had he not been suspended.
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At a recent Jacksonville, Florida, City Council discussion of new park sites a councilman told a councilwoman that she could “kiss my posterior,” and she responded by threatening to “beat the hell” out of him.
At a September dress rehearsal in a Swansea, Wales, theater, actress June Slavin of the English Shakespeare Company rushed along the balcony where she was to deliver the “wherefore art thou Romeo” line, tripped, and toppled over the railing, falling ten feet and spraining her wrist.
