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Amazingly, criminals on the lam for serious crimes still can't stop calling attention to themselves for the silliest of reasons (such as minor traffic infractions like having expired tags or a broken tail light). In San Diego in March, Larenzo Dixon, 22, was arrested at a downtown transit station during a police crackdown on jaywalkers. A routine check of the illegal street-crosser turned up a murder warrant on Dixon from Louisiana.

(80) Criminal entrepreneurs who cleverly brag about their enterprises on Web sites such as MySpace.com, like Bennie Rangel, 26, of Georgetown, Texas, who posted details of his cocaine business, along with a photo of himself fondling money (which led to a March sentencing of 70 years in prison).

In March, the Los Angeles City Council agreed to pay wrongly accused Juan Catalan $320,000 to settle his lawsuit over having been held in jail for five months for a 2003 murder he could not have committed. Catalan mAin'tained all along that he had been at a Dodgers baseball game at the time of the crime, with his 6-year-old daughter, but police distrusted the alibi. However, Catalan's lawyer subsequently learned that the HBO TV show "Curb Your Enthusiasm" had been filming at Dodger Stadium that day for an episode and, poring over time-stamped outtakes of crowd shots, finally found a scene with Catalan and his daughter in the stands.

Adding to the list of stories that were formerly weird but which now occur with such frequency that they must be retired from circulation: (79) The punk who tries to outrun police, only to be caught because his baggy jeans slip down and trip him, as happened to Chad Mercer, 20, in Wilmington, Del., in February, as he fled from a traffic violation and a gun-possession charge. (80) Criminal entrepreneurs who cleverly brag about their enterprises on websites such as MySpace.com, like Bennie Rangel, 26, of Georgetown, Tex., who posted details of his cocaine business, along with a photo of himself fondling money (which led to a March sentencing of 70 years in prison).

Michael J. DeWitt, 39, was arrested for DUI in Fort Wayne, Ind., in February after he drove erratically into the parking lot of the Indiana State Police early in the morning and told officers that he was there "to get a room." (A Holiday Inn was next door.) (State police later said they matched DeWitt's Hummer to the vehicle that minutes earlier had collided with a car and left the scene.)