xxxNews Of The Weirdxxx
Bizarre but true stories about real people collected by syndicated columnist Chuck Shepherd.
News of the Weird reported in 2001 that a bulimic woman in Toyoda, Japan, had been caught illegally dumping about 60 pounds a week of her own vomit in remote locations and, in 2003, that another bulimic woman had been caught discarding similar quantities near Madison, Wis. (perhaps, say health professionals, to assist their denial process by keeping their own homes untainted). In April 2006, sheriff’s deputies reported a similar spree, ironically near an Iowa town called Mount Pleasant, that has now totaled about 50 bags’ worth over a three-year period, but at press time, the vomiter was still at large.
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Arrested recently and awaiting trial for murder:
Bruce Wayne Potts, 34 (DeSoto, Texas, February);
Oral Wayne Nobles, 71 (arrested in Kingman, Ariz., on a Massachusetts warrant, April);
Ronald Wayne Spencer Jr., 19 (Richardson, Texas, April).
Arrested and suspected of murder:
Darrell Wayne Lewis, 32 (Tempe, Ariz., March).
Sentenced for murder: David Wayne Hickman (Dallas, May);
Anthony Wayne Welch, 27 (Viera, Fla., March).
Committed suicide while serving life in prison for murder: John Wayne Glover, 72 (Sydney, Australia, September 2005).
More than 90 people were killed while observing their religion in three incidents in April. A stampede by thousands of women at a religious gathering in downtown Karachi, Pakistan, resulted in 29 deaths; a packed bus speeding home from a religious festival went out of control and plunged into a ravine near Orizaba, Mexico, killing 57; and a few days later in Santa Maria del Rio, Mexico, five were killed by lightning, which struck the large metal cross before which they were praying.
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