xxxNews Of The Weirdxxx
Bizarre but true stories about real people collected by syndicated columnist Chuck Shepherd.
In November, a 70-year-old businessman had just finished testifying against the Homer, Alaska, city council’s proposed no-smoking ordinance (calling the reported dangers to health “baloney”) when he keeled over, dead of a heart attack. (He had said that eating breakfast with smokers every morning “hasn’t bothered my health any.”)
Also in November, in New York City, a 79-year-old man, who was using a blender to make a health drink for his wife, was killed when the appliance exploded, with a glass shard severing an artery.
A 21-year-old woman was charged with public nudity for being naked in a downtown bar, even though the police’s only evidence was a photograph of her, naked, in the bar, that she had posted on the Internet (Lincoln, Neb.).
Two armed robbers who kicked in a door and threatened a terrified woman backed off after she told them she had epilepsy; one of the men said his cousin is similarly afflicted, and he convinced his partner to call it off (Wichita, Kan.).
A 36-year-old woman was arrested for stealing 50 antique glass eyeballs (which have little resale value) from a hospital display case (Owensboro, Ky.).
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