Word: prowlers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Moors Hall, where a prowler was discovered at 4 a.m. on Tuesday, is also trying to get a buzzer system installed...
...woman with a loaded, cocked revolver in her hand walked into a Flor ida police station," reported the July issue of the American Rifleman. "To the officer behind the desk, she ex plained that she thought she had heard a prowler but was mistaken. 'Now I can't get it uncocked,' she said. The officer helpfully eased down the hammer without firing...
Knock on the Door. So it seemed until last week, when a prowler, aching to kill, evidently unhinged a ground-floor kitchen screen, reached in, and unlocked a back door. Creeping upstairs to a front bedroom where Miss Amurao was sleeping, he knocked on her door. Politely, she opened it. "A man was standing there," she recalled. "The first thing I noticed about him was the strong odor of alcohol." He had a small black pistol in one hand, a butcher knife in the other. Then, continued Corazon, "he made me go down the hall to a middle bedroom...
...Diego one night last fall, Stock Clerk Clifford G. Miller Jr. captured a neighborhood prowler, suffered a fractured hand in the scuffle, and lost $612.15 in pay and medical expenses. The cost of Miller's unusual willingness to become actively involved in the process of law enforcement was partly offset by medical and disability insurance, but he was still left $269.60 in the hole...
...entire concept of event identity-what makes it right to say that event A is the same as event B?" An American illustrates Wiggins' problem with a homely example: "Is my act of flipping on the light switch the same act as my act of alerting the prowler, if in fact by flipping on the switch and illuminating the room, I do alert the prowler?" Although the question sounds as relevant as the medieval puzzler about how many angels can dance on a pinhead, Wiggins notes that it has highly practical implications in fixing intention and responsibility, and theoretical...