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Pretty Boy Floyd
A bank robber named "Pretty Boy" Charles Floyd reportedly destroyed mortgage papers on heists, freeing hundreds of people from property debt.
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Simon Cowell Arrested
At age 12, Simon Cowell was arrested for hijacking a bus with a toy gun.
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In Mohave County, Arizona, if someone is caught stealing soap, they must wash themselves with it until it has gone.
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Self-Trolling
A woman in Britain was sentenced to 20 months in jail for creating fake Facebook profiles and trolling herself.
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Emergency Plane Farts
In 2006, a woman farted on a plane and tried to cover the smell by lighting matches, causing an emergency landing and an FBI investigation.
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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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Random Darknet Shopper
There's a bot called the 'Random Darknet Shopper' that is given $100 in bitcoins every week to purchase random items on the darkweb. It ended up buying 10 ecstasy pills and the creator was subsequently arrested.
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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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