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Updated: 11-22-2009
 

Posts Tagged ‘record’

Cops: Man who took champagne nabbed for 63rd time

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

If this guy doesn’t put the ‘H’ in habitual I don’t know who does.  It is said that after 21 times of doing something it is a habit, after 3 times that I think this is this guys life.   He needs another ‘H’ word, HELP!

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago police said a West Side man who allegedly tried to walk out of a store with three expensive bottles of champagne under his jacket now has 63 arrests under his belt. Officers said the 70-year-old man was initially charged with misdemeanor retail theft, but the charge was upgraded to a felony Monday after authorities look over his extensive police record, which included 62 prior arrests.

Chicago Police News Affairs Officer Michael Fitzpatrick said the man was arrested late Sunday afternoon after allegedly swiping champagne from a Lake View neighborhood Whole Foods store. Fitzpatrick said the suspect has used at least 50 aliases over the years.

The champagne was valued at $135.

Information from: Chicago Sun-Times, http://www.suntimes.com/index

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Did Mexico beat it? Fans go for ‘Thriller’ record

Monday, August 31st, 2009

What a thrill, setting a record for the most people “beating in”.  Sounds like one hell of a party topic to me

thriller-breaks-record-mexicoMEXICO CITY (AP) — They say they beat it. Thousands of Mexicans claimed they broke the record for most people dancing to “Thriller” simultaneously in one place on Saturday, which would have been Michael Jackson’s 51st birthday.

“We did it!” organizer Javier Hildago shouted to thousands of people wearing black fedoras, white gloves, aviator shades and ghoulish face paint, breathless after trying to recreate the groundbreaking 1983 video.

Did they? The Guinness Book of World Records will decide in a week.

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