xxxNews Of The Weirdxxx
Bizarre but true stories about real people collected by syndicated columnist Chuck Shepherd.
NOTE: Chuck Shepherd has nearly finished his psychological rehab assignment and will be back soon with a fresh look at the news. These are the last of the golden oldies he left behind for you.
Ms. Courtney Mann, the head of the Philadelphia chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of White People, who worked as a tax preparer and was a single mother, was rebuffed in an attempt to join a Ku Klux Klan-sponsored march in Pittsburgh in April 1997. Though she had been in the NAAWP for at least four years, the Klan turned her down because she is black. Said the Grand Dragon, incredulously: “She wanted to stay at my house (during rally weekend). She’s all confused, man. I don’t think she knows she’s black.
According to a 1999 Boston Globe story, Mr. Wai Y. Tye, a retired Raytheon Corp. chemist, had lived without complaint in the same 200-square-foot room in the downtown Boston YMCA continuously to that point since 1949. “When you’re busy working and playing tennis,” he told a reporter, “when you come home, you don’t have much time to take care of an apartment.” The bathroom is down the hall to the left, and he said he did not mind the exposed pipes or the linoleum floor or having to use a hotplate.
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