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Learn
more about crime punishment in our special 'Do You
Know' Section!
Do
You Know?
(1) The cost of smoking cigarettes annually is enough
to
-- Treat forty friends to a movie, followed by nineteen
pizzas to eat while reading 162 comic books.
-- Play seven or eight video arcade per day annually.
-- Buy top-on-the-line mountain bike and accessories.
-- Add $60 worth of new clothes to your cupboard each
month.
-- Buy a new paperback book each week of the year.
-- Fly to Australia for a holiday (1 person).
(2)
More than half an ecstasy could contain rubbish, like
talcum powder.
(3)
The other names for ecstasy are E, Love Doves, Clarity,
Adam, and Disco biscuits, Shamrocks, MDMA.
(4)
In Europe, when someone did something wrong, a gang
of children will paint their faces, go to that person's
house, and bang on pots and pans. When the wrongdoer
comes out, they will force him to march through the
town. This is called 'rough music'.
(5)
In historical gangs, the way of dressing was called
'peaky blinder' whereby boys who wore a 'peaky blinder'
shaved their heads and wore long, peaked caps, a row
of brass buttons on their coats, wide leather belts,
and pants that were wide at the bottom.
(6)
Before cities had fire departments, a giant bell would
ring when there was a fire whereby all gangs would
race one another to see who could get to the fire
first and put it out.
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