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Extracurricular Activities

An off-duty officer moonlighting as a security guard at a car dealership in Sugar Land, Texas, heard someone inside — no one was supposed to be there, as the dealership was closed on Sunday. He investigated and found a man inside near the finance office — carrying a crowbar. When the officer confronted the man, he dropped the crowbar and ran, and escaped in a waiting car. In addition to the crowbar, the man left behind a backpack: it contained pry bars, gloves, a mallet, bolt cutters, cutting blades — and his math homework. (RC/Houston Chronicle) ...“The police dog ate my homework.”