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Bizarre but true stories about real people collected by syndicated columnist Chuck Shepherd.
NOTE: Chuck Shepherd appeared to be getting too close to his subject matter and thus needs about three more weeks off. Before he left, he picked out some golden oldies to tide you over.
According to a doctor’s experience reported in the December 1997 issue of the journal Biological Therapies in Psychiatry, a 35-year-old female patient receiving a traditional anti-depressant was switched to bupropion, supposedly just as effective but without her regular drug’s side effect of inhibiting orgasm. “Within one week, her ability to achieve orgasm and her enjoyment of sex had returned to normal,” the doctor wrote. “After six weeks, however, she experienced (spontaneously, without physical stimulation) a three-hour orgasm while shopping.”
Life Imitates a Rodney Dangerfield Joke: In 1996, Steven Hicks, 38, and his wife, Diana, 35, were sentenced to six months in jail in Cape May, N.J., for child abandonment. They had been having trouble with their unruly son, Christopher, 13, and while he was hospitalized, they had surreptitiously packed up and moved to Inglewood, Calif.
The Times of London reported in 1997 that when an employee of the James Beauchamp law firm in Edgbaston, England, recently killed himself, the firm billed his mother the equivalent of US$20,000 for the expense of finishing up his office work. Included in that amount was a bill for about US$2,300 to go to his home to find out why he didn’t show up at work (thus finding his body), plus about US$250 to go to his mother’s home, knock on her door, and tell her that her son was dead. (After unfavorable publicity, the firm withdrew the bill.)
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