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Recent rages: Donovan Moore, 43, was cited for disorderly conduct in April in Janesville, Wisconsin, after he cut into a line of cars in a funeral procession and then made obscene gestures at the mourners. And in May, Ohio’s Barberton Herald ran an item that read: “A 33-year-old West Virginia man drove his vehicle into a 30-year-old Barberton woman’s fence, then tore her gate off its hinges. He had driven to town to try to have sex with her, but she refused, so he drove back to West Virginia.”
Last year Susan Bauer of De Forest, Wisconsin, claimed she couldn’t cut her grass, in violation of a city ordinance, because she was protecting exotic prairie plants. When that excuse was rejected, she filed a lawsuit in July claiming that her bad back exempts her from mowing the lawn under the Americans With Disabilities Act.
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Criminals imitate the Three Stooges: Donnell Taylor, 35, was arrested in June and charged with burglary of a nursing home in Pasadena. Taylor had opened a sliding glass door for a quick getaway, but an employee later closed it; Taylor’s crash through the door left a blood trail, which police followed to make the arrest. And in July a man in a ski mask with a gun rushed the front door of a closed convenience store near Tallahassee that had recently limited its hours. The man slammed into the locked door, stunning himself and knocking two packets of marijuana out of his pocket before he escaped.
Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): illustration/Shawn Belschwender.
