July 24, 1996: A Buck is a Buck is a Buck
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THOSE WHO MAY CARE July 24, 1996: A Buck is a Buck is a Buck |
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U.S. Sold Torture Tools to Six Nations
Jul. 9 -- Amnesty International is calling for a crackdown on crime
control products following disclosures that the U.S. government approved
sales of potential torture items to former Soviet republics and Latin
America over the past two years. Highlights:
- An unspecified number of miniature handcuffs known as thumbcuffs to
Russia.
- NATO countries, Japan, Australia and New Zealand previously had
unlimited access to devices such as thumbscrews through general license
sales.
- Separate Commerce reports show $88.8 million in individual validated
licenses last year, including $6.7 million for handcuffs, thumbcuffs,
stun guns, shock batons and other items of concern.
Source: Michael S. Lelyveld, Journal of Commerce
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The Floyd County (Ky.) coroner complained in February that ambulance
drivers were taking obviously dead people to the hospital just so they
could bill the county for rides. One man was rushed to the hospital even
though his suicide shotgun blast was so powerful that it blew both his
eyeballs out of their sockets. Another had been dead so long that rigor
mortis had commenced leaving the body bent at the waist so that it would
not fit on the stretcher, but the driver said he thought he "felt a pulse."
Source: News of the Weird
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MacArhtur Wheeler, 46, was sentenced to 24 years in prison in Pittsburgh
last January, a conviction made possible by clear photography from the
bank's surveillance camera. Wheeler and his partner did not wear masks,
and in fact were not concerned about the camera at all, because they had
rubbed lemon juice over their faces beforehand in the belief that the
substance would blur their on-camera images.
Source: News of the Weird
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