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• THE WORST ANIMAL RESCUE During the firemen's strike of 1978
  he British Army had taken over emergency firefighting and on 14 January they were called out by an elderly lady in South London to retrieve her cat which had become trapped up a tree....
• The Least Successful Defrosting Device The all-time record here is held by Mr.
  Peter Rowlands of Lancaster whose lips became frozen to his lock in 1979 while blowing warm air on it....
• The Least Successful Police Dogs America has a very strong candidate in "La Dur", a fearsome looking schnauzer hound, who was retired from the Orlando police force in Florida in 1978.
  He consistently refused to do anything which might ruffle or offend the criminal classes....
• The Least Successful Collector Betsy Baker played a central role in the history of collecting.
  She was employed as a servant in the house of John Warburton (1682-1759) who had amassed a fine collection of 58 first edition plays, including most of the works of Shakespeare....
• Largest Number of Driving Test Failures By April 1970 Mrs.
  Miriam Hargrave had failed her test thirty-nine times....
• The Least Successful Executions History has furnished us with two executioners worthy of attention.
  The first performed in Sydney in Australia. In 1803 three attempts were made to hang a Mr....
• Old Ladies Two old ladies were waiting for a bus and one of them was smoking a cigarette.
  It started to rain, so the old lady reached into her purse, took out a condom, cut off the tip and slipped it over her cigarette and continued to smoke....
• The Worst Car Hire Service When David Schwartz left university in 1972, he set up Rent-a-wreck as a joke.
  Being a natural prankster, he acquired a fleet of beat-up shabby, wreckages waiting for the scrap heap in California....
• The Least Successful Equal Pay Advertisement In 1976 the European Economic Community pointed out to the Irish Government that it had not yet implemented the agreed sex equality legislation.
  The Dublin Government immediately advertised for an equal pay enforcement officer....