Police in Radnor, Pennsylvania, interrogated a suspect by
          placing a metal colander on his head and connecting it with
          wires to a photocopy machine. The message "He's lying" was
          placed in the copier, and police pressed the copy button
          each time they thought the suspect wasn't telling the truth.
          Believing the "lie detector" was working, the suspect
          confessed.

The Chico, California, City Council enacted a ban on nuclear
          weapons, setting a $500 fine for anyone detonating one
          within city limits.

A convict broke out of jail in Washington D.C., then a few
         days later accompanied his girlfriend to her trial for
         robbery. At lunch, he went out for a sandwich. She needed to
         see him, and thus had him paged.  Police officers recognized
         his name and arrested him as he returned to the courthouse
         in a car he had stolen over the lunch hour.