Law and Crime Facts

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    Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
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    No patent can ever be taken out on a gambling machine in the United States.
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    It has been reported that rich people in China can hire "body doubles" to serve their prison time.
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    The most common time for a bank robbery is Friday, between 9 and 11 a.m. The least likely time is Wednesday, between 3 and 6 p.m.
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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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    The people most often killed in robberies are the robbers.
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    A man gets robbed in London every 4.5 minutes! (and he is getting fed up of it)
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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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