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Bizarre but true stories about real people collected by syndicated columnist Chuck Shepherd.
The burglar who is captured because his tracks lead away from a crime scene in the mud or snow is a story category previously identified as No Longer Weird. However, in May, Albert Jackson Dowdy, 22, in Grants Pass, Ore., took incompetence to a new level. According to police, he tried to smash a glass door with a paint can, but the can broke open. Dowdy eventually got into the home, said police (total take: a can of tuna fish and a box of oatmeal), but on his way out stepped in the spilled paint and created tracks to a nearby motel, where police eventually arrested him.
The National Assessment of Educational Progress released in June revealed that Washington, D.C., students score the lowest in the country in reading, even though the system spends more money per pupil than 49 states do, and even though teacher salaries are among the highest in the nation.
Washington, D.C.’s, Options Public Charter School replaced its principal, Clarence Edward Dixon, in May after learning that he is a felon with a long arrest record and in fact had been reporting to work daily wearing an ankle monitor as a condition of probation for credit-card fraud.
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