Ten Very Funny Tales of Weird People:

01. Police in Wichita, Kansas, arrested a 22-year-old man at an
airport hotel after he tried to pass two [counterfeit] $16 bills.

02. A man in Johannesburg, South Africa, shot his 49-year-old friend
in the face, seriously wounding him, while the two practiced shooting
beer cans off each other's head.

03. A company trying to continue its five-year perfect safety record
showed its workers a film aimed at encouraging the use of safety
goggles on the job.
According to Industrial Machinery News, the film's depiction of gory
industrial accidents was so graphic that twenty-five workers suffered
minor injuries in their rush to leave the screening room.
Thirteen others fainted, and one man required seven stitches after he
cut his head falling off a chair while watching the film.

04. The Chico, California, City Council enacted a ban on nuclear
weapons, setting a $500 fine for anyone detonating one within city
limits.

05. A bus carrying five passengers was hit by a car in St. Louis,
Missouri, but by the time police arrived on the scene, fourteen
pedestrians had boarded the bus and had begun to complain of whiplash
injuries and back pain.

06. Swedish business consultant Ulf af Trolle laboured for thirteen
years on a book about Swedish economic solutions.
He took the 250-page manuscript to be copied, only to have it reduced
to 50,000 strips of paper in seconds when a worker confused the copier
with the shredder.

07. A convict broke out of jail in Washington DC, then a few days
later accompanied his girlfriend to her trial for robbery. At lunch,
he went out for a sandwich.
She needed to see him, and thus had him paged. Police officers
recognized his name and arrested him as he returned to the courthouse
in a car he had stolen over the lunch hour.

08. Police in Radnor, Pennsylvania, interrogated a suspect by placing
a metal colander on his head and connecting it with wires to a
photocopy machine.
The message "He's lying" was placed in the copier, and police pressed
the copy button each time they thought the suspect wasn't telling the
truth.
Believing the "lie detector" was working, the suspect confessed.

09. When two service station attendants in Ionia, Michigan, refused to
hand over the cash to an inebriated robber, the man threatened to call
the police.
They still refused,
So, the robber called the police and was arrested.

10. A Los Angeles man who later said he was "tired of walking," stole
a steamroller and led police on a 5 mph chase until an officer stepped
aboard and brought the vehicle to a stop.