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Bizarre but true stories about real people collected by syndicated columnist Chuck Shepherd.

In January, days after a crackdown by Mexican President Vicente Fox on corruption at the La Palma jail near Mexico City, a full-page ad appeared in the daily newspaper Reforma, supposedly placed by higher-profile inmates, who, according to the ad, were now suffering under “subhuman” conditions, treated “like dogs, like animals, like we are worthless…scum of society.” What the government had done was to confiscate the drug lords’ and organized-crime leaders’ big-screen TVs, computers and cell phones (which they were using to retain control of their operations from behind bars), break up their prison rackets, and even end their personal pizza deliveries.

Sehnsucht restaurant opened in Berlin recently, catering to people with eating disorders, with a tasty cuisine for anorexics, to encourage weight-gain, but also serving bulimics, some of whom will quickly disgorge the tasty meal.
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