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Enraged that his computer was virtually disabled by e-mail spam earlier this year, Charles Booher, 44, of Sunnyvale, Calif., allegedly repeatedly threatened employees of the spammer with torture (castration with a power drill and an ice pick) and murder (using a gun and anthrax spores). He was arrested in November and admitted to the Reuters news agency that he had “sort of lost (his) cool” at the bombardment of penis-lengthening ads from DM Contact Management. DM’s president blamed a rival company for stealing DM’s e-mail address and said such companies give a bad name to the penis-enlargement business.
Recent Alarming Headlines:
(1) “Patrol Car Hit by Flying Outhouse” (an October Milwaukee Journal Sentinel story about Wisconsin trooper Rich Vanko’s squad car being smashed when a truck carrying portable toilets lost one along Interstate 90);
(2) “Shatner Frozen Horse-Semen Suit Dismissed” (a July Lexington, Ky., Herald-Leader story about William Shatner’s ex-wife’s accusation that she was being denied divorce-settlement-mandated access to a breeding stallion for her own farm).
Prof. Jeff Meldrum of Idaho State University said recently that, hoaxes aside, there is enough legitimate evidence of Bigfoot to warrant a comprehensive scientific investigation of his existence, once and for all. (National Geographic reported in October that a Texas fingerprint expert, as well as noted chimpanzee researcher Jane Goodall, have said they are certain of Bigfoot’s existence.)
Provo, Utah, explorer Steve Currey is organizing a July 2005 expedition to the North Pole (cost: $21,000 per person) to find the so-called polar “opening” to the hollow center of the Earth, supposedly the kingdom of God where the biblical 10 Lost Tribes reside.
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