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...lure of expensive wheels is one reason that auto theft is on the rise in the U.S. after declining for most of the past decade, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau, based in Chicago. "For a professional crook, wheel locks are a very minor inconvenience," says Sergeant Joe Thrasher, who supervises California's Orange County auto-theft task force. So while a nice set of rims lends a certain amount of street credibility, it's best to avoid parking on the street...
...hightailing it out of town and then evading the cops looking to drag you back. It's always a ratings grabber, like when some Republicans in the U.S. Senate locked themselves in their offices to quash a vote on a campaign-finance-reform bill in 1988, causing a sergeant at arms to carry Bob Packwood feetfirst to the Senate floor (after determining that Lowell Weicker was too heavy). The stunt pulled by Democrats in the Texas legislature last week was to avoid a vote on redistricting the state to create more Republican members of Congress...
...Warner always had good jobs, but they never seemed to last. He had been a technical sergeant in Vietnam, and then, after returning to Los Angeles, he worked as an air-traffic controller, a Hughes Aircraft manufacturing coordinator and a real estate agent. When the cold war ended and Southern California's economy slumped, Warner moved to New Jersey and took a low-wage position as a shoe salesman. He worked hard, but the job didn't really pay off--until the day he fit a pair of black, Italian flats on the slender feet of Mary Del Guidice...
...blood. After the amputation, he told rescuers, he used his remaining arm to rappel 50 to 75 ft. to the canyon floor. He had to hike another seven miles to find help. Bandaged and bleeding profusely, Ralston was walking with two other hikers who had encountered him when Sergeant Mitch Vetere of the Emery County Sheriff's Department spotted the group from a helicopter. Once aboard, Ralston asked for water but was remarkably stoic. "He was drained but coherent," says Vetere. "He seemed pretty calm for a guy who had just cut his own arm off." Authorities tried to retrieve...
Ikels first retired from serving as the HUPD sergeant who oversaw operations on Harvard’s Longwood campus in the early 1970s...