Law and Crime Facts

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    Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500!
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    The IRS employees tax manual has instructions for collecting taxes after a nuclear war.
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    Only 1 out of 700 identity thieves gets caught!
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    South Korea has banned under 16s from playing online games between midnight and 6am under the so-called "Cinderella Law".
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    Murder is the only crime that does not increase during the full moon. Theft, disorderly conduct, larceny, armed robbery, assault and battery, and rape all statistically increase dramatically during the full moon.
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    Richard Klinkhamer
    Richard Klinkhamer
    A year after his wife's disappearance, a Dutch crime writer named Richard Klinkhamer wrote a suspicious book about seven ways to kill your spouse. He became famous and spent the next decade hinting in print and on TV that he had murdered her. Finally, it turned out that he really had.
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    In 1995, a man named Shawn Nelson stole a tank from the US Army and took it for a joyride on a highway in California.
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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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