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A couple said the reason why their 18-month-old son survived a five-story fall out of an unscreened window, with only a broken leg, was because he landed on his loaded diaper (Ottawa, Ontario).
A Roman Catholic priest blessed his town’s beauty pageant, a preliminary to Miss Italy, saying, “Beauty is never embarrassing, for it is a gift from the Lord” (Civita Castellana, Italy).
Taxpayers in Manchester, England, learned they were paying for an Urdu-speaking translator because a newly elected city councilman from a Pakistani neighborhood barely speaks English.
Career criminal Gary Cowan, whose latest sentence was up, confessed to three more crimes with the hope he would be allowed to stay in prison to finish a restaurant management course (Cambridge, England)
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