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Colorado switched mile marker "420" to "419.99" to stop people from stealing it.
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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 2008, a beach was stolen in Jamaica. The 500 truckloads of sand remain missing to this day.
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Anthony Greco, aged 18, became the first person arrested for spim (unsolicited instant messages) on February 21,2005.
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Phantom Barber
In 1942, there was a man in Mississippi called the Phantom Barber who would break into people's houses at night and cut their hair.
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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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Whipping Tom
In the late 1600s, London was plagued by an attacker who would spank his victims with a rod and shout "Spanko!" before running away.
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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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