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Bizarre but true stories about real people collected by syndicated columnist Chuck Shepherd. A reporter for the Elyria (Ohio) Chronicle-Telegram, observing the workings of modern pothole-filling technology for an April story on the local street department, described the “Super-Patcher” machine as releasing a flow of “what appeared to be greasy, black beans” following a “phlegm-textured stream of sticky tar” that “coated the pothole like a pound of snot.”
After a guest on the Oprah Winfrey show proclaimed the use of Premarin vaginal cream and Preparation H on her face to smooth out wrinkles, Baltimore’s WBAL-TV did a follow-up with local doctors, who generally agreed that the ingredients might work but were nonetheless harmful to facial skin. Said female Maryland gynecologist Terry Hoffman, “Personally, if something is meant for my ‘hu-ha,’ I don’t think I’m going to put it on my eyes.”
Michael Lewis, 27, decided for some reason to fire his pellet gun at a .22-caliber bullet lying on a picnic table to see if he could hit it. He did; it exploded; and some of the bullet fragments lodged in his groin. He was hospitalized at Salina (Kan.) Regional Medical Center in March. (Police said alcohol was not involved, leaving “judgment” as the likely explanation.)
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