wombat@ccvaxa.UUCP (09/27/85)
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A man arrested for urinating on public property in Mexico City turned out to
be a plainclothes detective. While uniformed officers were transporting him
to the police station, their squad car was intercepted by a number of
detectives who demanded the release of their fellow plainclothesman. The
uniformed officers called for and quickly got backup, and a 20-minute
skirmish ensued in which a man on each side was wounded.
In the end, however, the uniformed cops won, and the detectives were all
taken into custody.
-Mexico City News.
In Hudson, Quebec, an unemployed man whose wife had just left him fired
hundreds of rounds from a .22 caliber rifle, a shotgun and a high-powered bow
inside his home, which was quickly surrounded by heavily armed police. He
emeged from the house unarmed, played with his dog, and nonchalantly began
cleaning up his yard, at which point he was placed under arrest.
- Canadian Wire Services.
Eighteen-year-old Alicia Vallarta, the hearing-impaired daughter of a Mexican
diplomat in Washington, D.C., held her interpreter hostage at knife point for
three hours in a suburban high school.
The girl's mother, also named Alicia, spoke to the Washington Post about the
incident. "She must be quite unhappy and dying to be heard," said Mrs.
Vallarta. "But I hope she doesn't like all the publicity. ... I will tell
her, 'Yes, you kept your father out of work all day, and yes, you kept your
mother from making her dessert, but this is not the way to get attention.'"
The Swedish Navy ship Albsborg, described as a ninety-two-meter mine layer,
sustained a direct hit on the bridge from one of its own antiaircraft guns
during a training exercise. According to press reports, "It was not
immediately clear why the gun had been aimed at the bridge."
-Wellington (New Zealand) Evening Post
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