Today's stories [6.21.20]

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A company trying to continue its five-year perfect safety
          record showed its workers a film aimed at encouraging the
          use of safety goggles on the job. According to Industrial
          Machinery News, the film's depiction of gory industrial
          accidents was so graphic that twenty-five workers suffered
          minor injuries in their rush to leave the screening room.
          Thirteen others fainted, and one man required seven stitches
          after he cut his head falling off a chair while watching the
          film.

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.

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

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