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Acting on parents’ complaints, the Israeli army announced in July that a paratroop commander, Captain Shai Engler, would be court-martialed for repeatedly biting newly assigned men on the buttocks. Engler’s subordinates would bring the men into Engler’s tent and pull their pants down. Engler defended himself by saying, “The goal was, among other things, to test the sergeants’ cheek muscles and to make sure they would get [moving].”
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Brian Bucz, 29, told Chicago police in September that he’d already stolen $272,000 from his employer in 1994 and that he’d spent $261,000 of it on private “table dances” and other services at the Dollhouse strip club. He said he visited the club an average of three times a week, which meant he would have had to drop about $2,500 per visit.
In October police in Rio de Janeiro broke up a fight between Jose Costa and the owner of a pit bull, Alexandre de Andrade. The incident began when Costa, who’d been drinking with friends, started to urinate against a tree and accidentally sprayed the dog, which was also urinating against the tree.
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