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Memphis, Tennessee -- While pillaging a local home last winter, a burglar left behind his red and white Nikes. Realizing later where he had lost them, he returned and asked the lady of the house if she had found a pair of colorful athletic shoes lying about. She called police. He was arrested shortly thereafter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Smart Criminals, Foolish Choices | 9/26/1994 | See Source »

Strick took over Wolf from novelist Jim Harrison, and Batman Returns from the brilliant Daniel Waters (Heathers). "Sometimes I feel like a burglar," says Strick. "It's like being invited to someone's house for a week and rifling through their drawers. Being assigned to rewrite a script by a really good writer, you may think that all you're doing is taking this wonderfully idiosyncratic thing and homogenizing it into a 'Hollywood' movie. But sometimes, after two or three years and three or four rewrites, the original writer can get ground down and fed up. Personalities can get flinty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Miracle Surgery | 7/25/1994 | See Source »

These include receiving a stolen motor vehicle, receiving stolen property, assault with a motor vehicle, possession of burglar's tools and numerous other motor vehicle charges...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two Arrested in Theft After Extended Chase | 3/3/1994 | See Source »

...power." The fact is, concealing a weapon is a felony, and you can stop someone just as easily with a shotgun. What can you do with a handgun that you can't do with a rifle? You can still hunt with a rifle, join a shooting club, stop a burglar, or even join a revolutionary militia. Perhaps you can't open a drawer and blow a hole in your spouse's chest in a wild fit of rage, but might regret having done that afterwards...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: Time to Ban Handguns | 1/10/1994 | See Source »

...descent was precipitous. At the time of his divorce, Ferguson began working for Ademco, a burglar-alarm manufacturer. A year into his job, however, he fell from a stool, receiving a back injury that led to his termination. He sued for compensation, won a $26,250 judgment but, for some reason, tried to reopen proceedings with the New York State workers' compensation board. He complained that he was a victim of racial prejudice and rejected state-appointed doctors sent to examine him because their surnames sounded ethnic and not black. Eventually, Ferguson, who wrote and called incessantly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Colin Ferguson: A Mass Murderer's Journey Toward Madness | 12/20/1993 | See Source »

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