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John Glover, 74, explained in June that his car was in the middle of New Jersey’s Deal Lake because the gas pedal got stuck. Billy W. Parkham, 68, said his minivan smashed into a dress shop in Seekonk, Massachusetts, in August because the gas pedal got stuck. Marie Wyman, 87, claimed her Buick crashed into a restaurant in Winslow, Maine, in July because the gas pedal got stuck.
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John Paul Roby, 56, was convicted in Toronto in May of 35 counts of sex crimes against minors after a long trial in which a mountain of evidence (including the testimony of 42 victims) was produced against him. Roby denied that a thoroughly authenticated photograph of him was really of him, he claimed that “I never masturbate, period,” and he repeatedly asserted that he could never have exposed himself in men’s rooms (as witnesses claimed) because he has so much bladder control that he rarely urinates.
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