kelvin@cs.utexas.edu (Kelvin Thompson) (04/18/89)
This may be old news to everybody else, but....
I just found this in the nationally-syndicated column "News of the Weird"
(appearing locally in the April 14 _Austin_Chronicle_):
Mario Morby, 12, a cancer patient in remission in Streetly,
England, who had amassed a Guinness-book record 2 million
postcards of get-well support from around the world, was
found suffocated in December after a pile of an estimated
500,000 cards fell over on him.
[Regular netnews readers will remember waves and waves of postings
about this guy over the past few years.]
I don't believe "NotW" appears in the New York Times, but I think
they have documented, corroborated pieces. I'll believe the above
story until somebody tells me different.
Still, it does seem almost too poetic to be true.
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-- Kelvin Thompson, Lone Rider of the Apocalypse
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