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Bizarre but true stories about real people collected by syndicated columnist Chuck Shepherd.
According to a February Reuters report, 15 hooded men were very apologetic while they robbed the priests of a Catholic monastery near Guaratingueta, Brazil, of the equivalent of US$6,200, but one of the crooks forced a priest to swear on a Bible that that was all the money they had.
Norwegian activists Tommy Hol Ellingsen and his girlfriend, seeking new funding sources for the environmental movement, created a Web site earlier this year that charges visitors about US$15 a month to view pornographic photos of the couple, with all profits to benefit environmental organizations (although some were reported ethically reluctant to accept their money).
In January, a 33-year-old British woman, “Vix,” who has multiple sclerosis, created a Web site featuring topless photos of herself and asking visitors to donate to the UK’s MS Resource Centre. (Business is slow on both sites: As of April, Ellingsen reported only 200 visitor-months, and Vix had raised the equivalent of US$6,000 from about 100 of the site’s 125,000 visitors.)
According to police in Atlanta in January, Nathaniel Lee Stanley, 20, just released from jail, walked out and immediately carjacked a woman in the jail’s parking lot (and was later returned to jail).
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