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Bizarre but true stories about real people collected by syndicated columnist Chuck Shepherd.
BBC News reported that officials at a prison in Sombor, Serbia, shot to death two guard dogs, execution style, in February after concluding that they had been lax recently in failing to bark when five inmates were escaping.
Michael J. Corbett and his wife, Sharon, were arrested in Beckley, W.Va., in March and charged with peddling copies of 53 different obscene videos on the Internet. The Corbetts’ specialty: nude women answering nature’s call. According to Justice Department and Postal Service investigators, customers bought 100 or more tapes a week (such as “Outdoor Pooping Paradise” or tapes using the Corbetts’ inventive “bowl cam”) at around $50 each.
Luis Chavez, 33, was arrested in Cypress, Calif., in February after he allegedly set off aerial fireworks in his condominium bedroom (motive unknown), leading to a $135,000 fire.
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