In Mohave County, Arizona, if someone is caught stealing soap, they must wash themselves with it until it has gone.
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Colorado switched mile marker "420" to "419.99" to stop people from stealing it.
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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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A surprise inspection of a men’s prison in Acapulco unearthed 100 plasma TVs, 2 sacks of marijuana, 2 peacocks, 100 cockerels… and 25 women.
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