xxxNews Of The Weirdxxx
Bizarre but true stories about real people collected by syndicated columnist Chuck Shepherd.
Boulders estimated at 5 tons each rolled down hills and killed people near Honolulu in August (a 26-year-old woman asleep in her bed) and Navajo Lake State Park, N.M., in February (a 20-year-old man).
A 67-year-old man was crushed to death in Shamokin, Pa., in January when two paramedics, carrying him in his wheelchair up about 20 steps, accidentally dropped him, and one fell on top of him.
A British rock music fan offered to sell his own flu germs derived from Paul McCartney’s recent bout of the flu (which the fan said he caught from a backstage session with McCartney), via either a coughed-into plastic bag or a vial of mucus.
A British designer introduced a 135-foot-high plastic inflatable church that he said Anglican Church vicars could carry around with them to recruit parishioners (inflatablechurch.com).
To express their new religious freedom, Iraqi Shi’ite pilgrims celebrated a long-suppressed holy day by the traditional, bloody slashing-open of their heads with swords (Karbala).
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