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Thanks also to the reader who emailed Dawn news from Germany about the arrest of an inspired graffiti artist. It seems that Berlin police have arrested a 31-year-old man they caught vandalizing two cars by scratching large penis-shaped gouges into them. Police told reporters that they believe he may be responsible for similar markings found on hundreds of others. The man is under investigation for vandalizing around 330 vehicles in the region over the last few months, most of which had also been marked with the same penis insignia.

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The total damage may near 350,000 euros, according to the coppers.

"Nearly all of them had this special motif," a police spokesman said. "He said he did it because he was mentally disturbed. I don't know if that was just a pretext." The suspect is now undergoing psychiatric treatment, he added.

Dawn appreciated the news-supplying reader's note appended: "I would say carving penises into cars is the opposite of defacing-- more like 'facing' or 'ornamenting'. Am I mentally disturbed?"

Well, dear reader, as Joseph Heller has already noted, what sane person wouldn't be "mentally disturbed" living in our crazy world?