Law and Crime Facts

    Random Law and Crime Facts

    There are 50 Law and Crime Facts!

    Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball.
    67
    There have been over 7,200 acts of terrorism against the US over the last 15 years.
    46
    16 percent of Americans will receive one speeding ticket this year and it will cost them on average $150 per ticket.
    42
    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.
    2
    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.
    75
    In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.
    469
    The IRS employees tax manual has instructions for collecting taxes after a nuclear war.
    208
    According to Gaming Law, casinos have to stock enough cash to cover all the chips on the 'floor'.
    58