Law and Crime Facts

    Random Law and Crime Facts

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    It takes five minutes to execute someone in a gas chamber.
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    About 1 in 30 people, in the U.S., are in jail, on probation, or on parole!
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    In 2013, the Netherlands scheduled 19 prisons to be closed due to a lack of criminals.
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    Amazing Plane Theft
    Amazing Plane Theft
    In 1956, for a bet whilst drunk, Thomas Fitzpatrick stole a small plane from New Jersey and then landed it perfectly on a narrow Manhattan street in front of the bar he had been drinking at. Then, two years later, he did it again after a man didn’t believe he had done it the first time.
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    In 2010, police in Belfast, Northern Ireland, used ice cream van music to calm angry teen rioters - and it worked!
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    In 2015, Britain will ban smoking in cars carrying children.
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    Legal Car Flamethrowers
    Legal Car Flamethrowers
    South African residents can legally attach small flamethrowers to cars to repel car jackers.
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    North Korea Cannabis
    North Korea Cannabis
    The only country where cannabis is completely legal and du jure is North Korea.
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