Law and Crime Facts

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    Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500!
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    It takes five minutes to execute someone in a gas chamber.
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    Most burglaries occur during the daytime!
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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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    About 1 in 30 people, in the U.S., are in jail, on probation, or on parole!
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    A Missouri family sued the previous owners of a house that they had just bought after Brown Recluse Spiders "started bleeding out of the walls." An expert came in and estimated that the house was infested with 4,000 – 5,000 of the spiders.
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    Just before the US started bombing Baghdad, nearly $1 billion dollars was stolen from the Central Bank of Iraq and is now the largest bank robbery in history.
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    The 'v' in the name of a court case does not stand for 'versus', but for 'and' (in civil proceedings) or 'against' (in criminal proceedings).
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