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Guessing Game

Police in Leesburg, Fla., responded to a fight in progress, and indeed found five men in a parking lot, shirtless and sweating. The men refused to be detained by officers and walked away, but backup units arrived and “corralled” them. Four were given a warning, but the fifth refused to identify himself: he said his given name was “Kayden” and his last name matched the capital of Montana. When a computer search for “Kayden Helena” failed to find anyone, the man was arrested on a charge of falsely identifying himself. That’s when he gave in: he is Kayden Billings, 19. “It should be noted,” Officer Kyler Hobbs wrote in his arrest report, “that Billings is a major city in the state of Montana, but is not the capital.” (RC/Leesburg Daily Commercial) ...Which made Kayden’s ignorance a capital crime.