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Don't aim gun where you don't want to shoot

By TIMES WIRES
Published December 5, 2006

Some people just don't read the Skinny with any degree of regularity. If they did, they would know not to shove a gun down the front of their pants. It's just not smart. The Toronto Star reports that a guy in Toronto is in the hospital with a gunshot wound to the privates that police just don't think that someone other than the victim is responsible for. "The gunshot was probably self-inflicted," Sgt. Bruce Bolitho said. "If it goes in straight down, then it was self-inflicted. We have to wait to hear what the doctors say. Some of these guys put their gun down their pants and ..." Yeah, it's a hard sentence to finish.

Pick a mugging location carefully

Tom and Tonja Casady were out for a walk on a beautiful evening while visiting Washington, D.C., last week. As they were walking right in front of the White House, someone tried to nab her purse. "The main thing that went through my mind," Tom told the Washington Post, was "that this might be the stupidest place in the United States to try to grab a purse." Another dumb thing to do is to try to grab a purse belonging to the wife of a police chief while he's standing right there. Tom is chief in Lincoln, Neb. The guy missed the purse, and Tom was ready to let him go, but then the guy stopped and started talking smack. An annoyed Tom grabbed him and was assisted in a collar by the Secret Service.

No free tattoos? Where does it end?

The government of Canada has decided to refuse inmates the basic human right of free tattoos. Actually, it was just a trial program the country started up last year in which they opened cell-block parlors that ensured sterile needles as a way of combating the spread of HIV and hepatitis C. But it cost $600,000 to run. "Our government will not spend taxpayers' money on providing tattoos for convicted criminals," said federal public safety minister Stockwell Day. Critics say that prisoners will be prisoners, and they like their tattoos, so the government will end up spending more to treat the diseases that will result from homemade equipment.

Shhhhhhhh! We're working in here, too

In South Carolina, the College of Charleston has decided that the whole idea of higher education should probably prevail over new construction. The school has some new buildings going up right next to current classrooms where students are taking final exams. Above, the school's choral director walks past the site with ears covered. The students say that the heavy equipment and pounding and hammering are not good for concentration. So the school offered free ear plugs. Uhhhh, no, the students said. So the school relented and has suspended work until after exams end next week. The delay will cost them about $6,000 a day.

Compiled from Times wires and other sources by staff writer Jim Webster.

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