Word: banke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tried making shoes, inventing an electric razor, singing in a national radio contest. Nothing worked. Then, as he later told the judge, "I suddenly remembered the theory of my professor of political economics at the University of Danzig. He said that a man who lights a cigar with his bank note is harming the entire society, for every bill in circulation contributes to the wealth of the society. Stretching the theory just a bit, one might well say that the man who makes a false bill and introduces it into circulation is doing society no harm...
After that, he lived modestly, spending only enough funny money to get by, banking much of the rest. It was 1952 before the Bank of France first detected his handiwork, soon became so apprehensive about the size of the operation that they did not dare sound a general alarm for fear of triggering a national panic. ("Had they said something," Bojarsky later complained, "I would have stopped. But as they never did, I figured they just weren't interested...
...couldn't have happened to a friendlier hippo. Making his home in the grey-green Kurasini Creek outside Dar es Salaam, Hugo is a happy-go-lucky sort who loves nothing better than romping with dogs on the bank, marching behind a herd of cattle, and frolicking in the creek, creating miniature tidal waves. Water skiers even skim over his partly submerged back without raising as much as a snort. But Hugo has a vice: good food...
...year ago, Hugo was content to munch the wild grasses and reeds along the Kurasini bank. Then one night he began feasting on the sweet potatoes, maize stalks and plump cabbages grown by nearby farmers. Before long, villagers were grabbing up their machetes and spears and shouting for Hugo's hide. With his speed (up to 30 m.p.h.) and sharp sense of smell, Hugo managed to elude his pursuers. Yet it seemed only a matter of time before he would be caught...
Idealistic as it may seem, the system is eminently practical. In 1964, the last year for which records are available, 84% of all the court's criminal defendants were released on personal recognizance. Although they were charged with everything from bank robbery to narcotics offenses, only 1% of that group failed to show up in court. What makes those figures all the more spectacular is that the Detroit court is a mere ten-minute, 25? bus ride away from the tempting possibility of sanctuary across the Canadian border...