Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since the early 1970s, law-enforcement officers have used video cameras to tape drunk-driving suspects, for crowd surveillance and to record "sting" operations. (By far the most famous use: the Abscam investigations that led to the convictions of former New Jersey Senator Harrison Williams and six Congressmen...
...involve whopping sums, and somewhat unlikely defendants. In California, a drunken driver plowed into the rear end of a station wagon parked on the shoulder of a freeway; the wagon had been left without lights by a police officer who was arresting its driver. The passengers riding with the drunk sued him and also the state, which had to ante up $2 million in damages. In 1978 a student from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology threw acid in the face of his former girlfriend at her New York City residence. She sued the building owner and its security firm...
Uspensky said that in the spring of 1978 he was attacked by "three hoodlums pretending to be drunk," who shouted "Lousy Kike" and "Damned anti-Soviet"--an attack he believes was instigated by the KGB, the Soviet secret police, who had harassed him since his release from prison. Although not Jewish, he pretended to be a Jew in order to obtain his exit visa more easily...
...friends. We put on most of the clothes we owned, folded down the top of his MG-TD (then a new car, not an antique) and had a glorious time ripping along the joy road till dawn. We drove with such panache I never guessed he was no drunk that the next day he could not remember the trip...
...iniquity, the arcades, Brooks concluded, were places for young people to meet and talk. Said he: "They're like a bunch of golfers talking about what happened at the ninth hole." Fears that drugs and liquor are commonplace were off target, Brooks reported. One cannot play well when drunk or high, he noted, and where video games are concerned, playing well is the adolescent's best revenge...