Mar 27
From Chuck Shepherd’s News of the Weird:
“1994 — In Labouchere Bay, Alaska, in November, Cairl D. Cothren, 50, accidentally shot himself in the shoulder with the shotgun he was holding between his knees in the cab of a truck when he leaned over to spit tobacco juice into a can on the floor.”
“1991 — Jail officials in Clearwater, Fla., released inmate Michael Ewers in May after falling for his escape plot. Ewers, in jail awaiting extradition to Alaska, telephoned local jailers from inside the jail, pretending to be an Alaska official, saying it was not worth the expense to return Ewers there and therefore to let him go. They did.”
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