walt_sak@proper.UUCP (Walt Sakai) (08/06/85)
(Sorry, folks, for those bizarre 8th bits on the previous posting !!!) "Good morning, Ms. Kanoe and Mr. Kayak...." =========================================================== @FAXS A twenty-two year old man with a hole in his forehead walked into the Lindon, Ohio, police headquarters and requested an X-ray in order to locate his brain. The unidentified man had inserted six inches of wire through a hole into his skull in an attempt to find his brain, but had failed. He told police that he made the hole with a power drill. (Columbus Dispatch) According to the Drug-Industry publication 'APHARMACY WEEKLY', a federal appeals court ordered the FDA to determine whether drugs proposed for use in Lethal-Injection executions are "safe and effective." Honolulu Taxi driver Gil Gilbertson paid $340.00 for a newspaper ad to celebrate his sixty-fifth birthday on December First. The ad read: "By God, I made it!" Mr. Gilbertson never saw his ad, however, because he died of a heart attack a week before it ran. Seventy-Six-Year-Old Russell Berkley of Hazel Park, California, sued for injuries sustained when his testicles were sucked into the drain of a hospital whirlpool bath. (Oakland Press) When a British Airways Boeing 737 airliner in Sydney, Australia, failed to start, mechanics has to dismantle the starter assembly. Inside they found a pair of frilly woman's panties. "We don't know whose panties they were," said an airlines spokesman, "but we do know it cost 20,000 pounds to fix." (Sydney Morning Herald) Dockworker John Kelly tried to fly across the River Boyne in County Louth, Ireland, by jumping from a high ramp with two turkeys strapped to his arms. After falling into the river, Kelly said he would try again using four turkeys. (CP) According to San Francisco Police, a fifty-two-year-old woman whose home was burglarized found her stolen possessions returned with the following note: "Dear Occupants: Never in my years of robbing have I come across some shit like this. That's why I'm delivering this junk to your return. P.S. It has not been my pleasure serving you." (San Francisco Examiner) After an eleven-year court battle, the Aetna Insurance Company reimbursed the Wackenhut Security Service $230,000 that Wackenhut was forced to pay to a man whose colon was damaged by a Wackenhut security guard. The guard, a Cuban refugee who spoke no English, was working at an Eagle Family Discount Store in Miami, Florida, in 1972 when he noticed a bulge under a shopper's shirt. Despite the shopper's desperate protests, the guard reached inside the man's shirt and pulled out his colostomy bag. (St. Petersburg Times) Police in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, arrested twenty-seven-year-old Douglas Alexander, whom they found hiding in the food freezer of a grocery store. Alexander had reportedly been in front of the store bouncing a basketball off the heads of passing women. (Lancaster Sunday News)
judith@proper.UUCP (Judith Abrahms) (08/07/85)
In article <> walt_sak@proper.UUCP (walt_sak) writes: >(Sorry, folks, for those bizarre 8th bits on the previous posting !!!) Me, I liked it better the OLD way!
jad@lanl.ARPA (08/11/85)
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