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1993 -- In February, Frank P. Barrasso, 37, was charged with making 621 threatening phone calls to a business in Michigan. Barrasso was easily arrested because the last of the phone calls was being made from a phone booth in the federal building in Fort Worth, Texas, just outside the FBI office. The Michigan company called the FBI in Michigan, which traced the call and notified the FBI in Fort Worth, whose agents stepped down the hall and found Barrasso still inside the booth.

1991 -- page 31 of the Defense Department's annual report to the president and Congress last year, Sawyer Air Force Base (located in Michigan) is shown in Wisconsin, and the upper peninsula of Michigan is shown as belonging to Canada.

1997 -- In Ashdod, Israel, a 93-year-old woman was arrested in March for peddling heroin to police officers who had knocked on her door. According to police, the woman's eyesight is failing, and she thought they were her regular customers. And in Adrian, Mich., in January, Lillian Howard, 84, was arrested for attempting to smuggle marijuana in her underwear to her son during a visit to Gus Harrison Prison.

1997 -- Early New Year's morning, a 16-year-old girl in Kalamazoo, Mich., was arrested for erratic driving in a car she allegedly stole from Patricia Conlon. The girl was unaware that the next day Conlon would begin a term as county juvenile court judge. Also in Kalamazoo on New Year's Eve, Derrick Demones Gunn was sentenced to one to five years in prison for attempting to escape from a halfway house one day before his original sentence was up.

1997 -- Latest Highway Truck Spills: Several hundred thousand apples near Brighton, Mich., in November; a tractor-trailer full of Hills Bros. ground coffee in downtown Louisville in December; a truck hauling spaghetti sauce and ranch dressing (colliding with a truckful of computers) on I-35 in Austin, Texas, in January; and during a November ice storm, a tractor-trailer full of nuclear weapons near Brownlee, Neb. (an accident kept secret for a month by the federal government).

1997 -- Medical Breakthroughs: In February, surgeons removed a cataract from the eye of the National Zoo's 6-foot-long Komodo dragon "Muffin" in the hope that she could better see how studly the male "Friendty" was and thus would mate with him. And in January, doctors in Johannesburg, South Africa, performed spinal surgery on a 10-foot-long python, which had been run over by a car. (Contrary to what our eyes tell us, the python has 306 vertebra and 268 ribs.) And in Jackson, Mich., in February veterinarian Timothy England fitted a stray rooster with artificial legs after he had to amputate his natural ones because of frostbite.

1997 -- Weight Problems: In January, Michigan state security officer Canute Findsen, 43, was shot to death in Lansing by fellow officer Virginia Rich, 51, but then he shot Rich to death just before he died; police believe Rich was upset that Findsen had made one comment too many about her being overweight. And in January in Providence, R.I., Ricardo Guerrero killed himself rather than face prison for shooting and wounding Johanny Urbaez at a nightclub; according to police, Urbaez had precipitated the incident by referring to Guerrero as "fatso."

1997 -- In August, Julie Leach filed a lawsuit in Macomb County, Mich., seeking at least $10,000 from the owners of a beagle named Patch, which Leach said was constantly enticing Leach's German shepherd, Holly, to chase him. In 1995, during one of Patch's escapades, the pursuing Holly was run over by a car and killed. Leach says Patch's owners should pay for permitting their dog to harass Holly.

1997 -- Chris Morris filed a $1 million lawsuit against the state of Michigan in November, claiming that he caught a cold in the rotunda of the state Capitol while viewing an art exhibit there earlier in the year.

1997 -- Latest Ear Technology: In November, police in Independence Township, Mich., arrested a 45-year-old man and charged him with peeping into windows at the Clarkston Motor Inn, basing the arrest on the earprints he allegedly left on the windows. And one month later, in Vancouver, Wash., Judge Robert L. Harris ruled that the prosecutor could use an earprint found on the bedroom door of a murder victim in the trial of his suspected killer.

LOLS earprints! That is why I love forensics!

Can we saaay, ANGER MANAGEMENT??

1996 -- In July, college president John Upton was arrested in Allegan, Mich., for murdering his wife, allegedly because, he said, "She was demanding a great number of things that weren't feasible." And in June, Ross Horton admitted at his trial in Honolulu that he killed his business partner in 1993 after the man criticized his ability to lay tile, which Horton takes seriously as "an art form." On the same day, according to police in Sauk Centre, Minn., Paul Crawford shot four neighbors and himself to death to culminate a feud over a 5-foot strip of land that separates their properties.

1996 -- In March, police in Madison Heights, Mich., said a 22-year-old employee of Wolpac Inc. took a Ritz cracker at lunch belonging to co-worker Raymond Parker, 26. Parker went home to get a .38-caliber handgun, returned, and fired two shots toward the man before he was subdued.

GIVES NEW MEANING TO everything tastes better when it sits on a ritz!

[Vater Araignee]

I remember the great apple spill. It smelled great after the fermentation kicked in.