Luis Bustos, Cocaine Coast: A Graphic Novel. Portland, OR: Ablaze Publishing, 2021. “The man trafficked bicycles.”
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Ice Disks Inserted in Gas Meter
“Beating the Gas Man,” The Saturday Evening Post, vol. 186, no. 19, 8 Nov. 1913, p. 45. Instead of coins, a clever unidentified man inserts disks made of ice into his gas meter. Supposed crime location: Hawaii.
“Idea Was Original | Man Used Ice Disks Successfully In Gas Meter,” Baldur Gazette (Manitoba, Canada), 9 April 1936. Supposed crime location: London, U.K.
C. H. Moore, “On the Level,” Crime and Punishment #5, August 1948. Supposed crime location: Brooklyn, N.Y.
New York Daily News, 3 May 1977. “A few years ago, a group of collegians wrecked their vengeance on a vendor by using slugs made of ice.”
Phil Healey and Rick Glanvill, Incredible but True (London: BCA, 1992), 37. Supposed crime location: U.K.
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