In 2010 Joshua Vasquez, a 22-year-old man from East Los Angeles, was booked on suspicion of felony vandalism and jailed in lieu of $20,000 bail. It seems the six-foot-four, 200-pound tagger scratched graffiti into a glass door on a public building. When Vasquez opened the door to tag the other side, he was confronted by approximately 40 deputy sheriffs and police officers who were in the building for a class. What Vasquez hadn't realized was that although he couldn't see through the outside of the door, the law enforcement officers could see through the inside of it. Lesson: there is no open-door policy for crime.
Nevertheless, hospitals repeatedly open their doors to crime. It's not only hotel guests who steal from their rooms. A 2010 survey of 93 nonprofit hospitals found that two-thirds of them experience patients stealing - costing each hospital approximately $15,000 a year. The items most stolen were towels, followed by pillows, bed linens and telephones. However, according to VHA, the international group of nonprofit hospitals that conducted the study, employees taking scrubs is a bigger problem. Some hospitals require old scrubs to be returned before new ones can be taken. It seems taking scrubs is so widespread it has become "uniform" behavior.
In 2010 a Russian chimpanzee was put in rehab because of his behavior. Zhora, a former performer, became too aggressive to work in circuses and was sent to a zoo in southern Russia. At the zoo the chimpanzee fathered several children and learned how to draw with markers. He also learned to drink and smoke. Although Pravda's article didn't say who supplied Zhora, it did say the chimp pestered passers-by for alcohol. In spite of PETA wanting to rename fish "kitties" so they won't be eaten and demonstrating against Punxsutawney Phil working on Groundhog Day, real work for PETA hasn't "petaed" out.
Finally, in 2010 a yet-to-be-apprehended woman, armed with a semi-automatic pistol, robbed customers in a California market. According to a Sheriff's Department statement, the woman didn't rob just 1 or 2 customers. She robbed 10 customers and, as she was leaving to make her getaway in what was described as an "old car', she robbed a customer on his way into the market. Considering the total of the robber's take was only $6 - hardly enough to pay for gas - she hopefully learned crime doesn't pay - especially in a recession.
Nevertheless, hospitals repeatedly open their doors to crime. It's not only hotel guests who steal from their rooms. A 2010 survey of 93 nonprofit hospitals found that two-thirds of them experience patients stealing - costing each hospital approximately $15,000 a year. The items most stolen were towels, followed by pillows, bed linens and telephones. However, according to VHA, the international group of nonprofit hospitals that conducted the study, employees taking scrubs is a bigger problem. Some hospitals require old scrubs to be returned before new ones can be taken. It seems taking scrubs is so widespread it has become "uniform" behavior.
In 2010 a Russian chimpanzee was put in rehab because of his behavior. Zhora, a former performer, became too aggressive to work in circuses and was sent to a zoo in southern Russia. At the zoo the chimpanzee fathered several children and learned how to draw with markers. He also learned to drink and smoke. Although Pravda's article didn't say who supplied Zhora, it did say the chimp pestered passers-by for alcohol. In spite of PETA wanting to rename fish "kitties" so they won't be eaten and demonstrating against Punxsutawney Phil working on Groundhog Day, real work for PETA hasn't "petaed" out.
Finally, in 2010 a yet-to-be-apprehended woman, armed with a semi-automatic pistol, robbed customers in a California market. According to a Sheriff's Department statement, the woman didn't rob just 1 or 2 customers. She robbed 10 customers and, as she was leaving to make her getaway in what was described as an "old car', she robbed a customer on his way into the market. Considering the total of the robber's take was only $6 - hardly enough to pay for gas - she hopefully learned crime doesn't pay - especially in a recession.
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