MOSCOW - If your shiny car ever gets stolen and turns up in Moscow, the city's vigilant traffic police know just what to do: Give the proud new owner a permit to drive it. Not that the police condone car theft, they hasten to add, it's just that the problem with stolen foreign cars was getting out of hand. And it wasn't fair to penalize Russians because Westerners are too rich or too lazy to hang on to their cars. "To be honest with you, we have more important things than just to babysit cars belonging to Westerners," said a traffic police lieutenant on duty on a major road, who didn't want to give his name. "I believe that the Westerners are rich enough to afford a new car if the old one is stolen," he added.

In Carmel, New York a man may not go outside while wearing a jacket and pants that do not match.

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In 1990, the IRS slapped country singer Willie Nelson with a bill for $32 million in delinquent taxes. The IRS ultimately agreed to charge Nelson only $9 million, and gave him three years to pay it.

In December 1993, then-Governor Clinton had donated his underwear to the Salvation Army and claimed the donations as charitable deductions on his income taxes. Clinton ran into trouble because he claimed too large a deduction on his knickers.

A few years after telling an employee that "only little people pay taxes", hotel queen Leona Helmsley was indicted on charges the she and her husband evaded $1.2 million in income taxes by billing their business for "personal items" ranging from a marble dance floor to girdles.

When Mitchelson, divorce attorney to the stars and Hollywood's "Prince of Palimony", dumped a client-turned-lover, she got revenge by contracting the IRS. He was formally indicted for allegedly hiding more than $2 million in income.

The IRS nailed '50s rock star Jerry Lee Lewis for non-payment of back taxes in the late '70s which totaled $4.1 million. Lewis worked out a deal to pay only $560,000, less than $.15 on the dollar. His secret: He didn't have any money.

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