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9 Gas in the news: Police in Janesville, Wisconsin, responded to a 911 call in December over a domestic disturbance that the wife said had begun when the husband inappropriately passed gas as they were tucking their son into bed. And in January in Perth, Australia, John Douglas Young, 47, was convicted of a child-abuse charge for offering two boys $5 each to pass gas in his face so that he could later masturbate to the mental picture of the encounter. (Young’s unsuccessful defense was in part to recite a long list of movies, books, and TV shows in which passing gas was a theme.)
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9 Continental Airlines filed a lawsuit in November in Newark, New Jersey, against Deborah Loeding, who the airline said endangered passengers in order to get revenge on her ex-husband, a pilot. Loeding had baked him some bread, but had surreptitiously laced it with marijuana so that he’d fail the airline’s drug test and get fired–which did happen, although he was later reinstated when Continental learned what had happened.
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