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- Weird News Volume 7
-
- KING WEIRD:
-
- - At the 80th birthday calebration for Kim Il-sug, the North
- Korean dictator received as gifts a container of blood from 800
- snapping turtles (considered an aphrodisiac) from his son, and a
- quilt and sleeping mat made of down from the necks of 700,000
- sparrows. A 100-room museum houses over 87,000 presents given to
- him during his 44 year reign. (A gift from a correspondent for
- the British Broadcasting Corp was politely refused by North
- Korean officials because, first, it was merely a BBC sweatshirt,
- and second, it wasn't gift-wrapped.)
-
- ON THE BLOTTER:
-
- - From the "Police" column of the Brooklyn Park (Minn) Sun-Post:
- An officer found a quarter in the seat of a squad car. The coin
- was inspected, inventoried, tagged, and logged in as required.
-
- - Keven E. Tibbs, 21, was arrested in Brunswick Md in February.
- According to Officer Robin Purdum, Tibbs had attempted to steal a
- parking meter and was trying to conceal it in his pants when he
- was stopped.
-
- - Randall Eugene Davis, who has only one leg, was arrested in
- Clarinda, Iowa, in March, suspected of stealing a truck. The
- truck contained several animals, among which was a Labrador
- retriever with only three legs.
-
- - From the "Police Report" column of the Kerville (Texas) Daily
- Times: a 23 year old man was arrested for assault on a police
- officer when he allegedly tried to gore an off-duty officer with
- deer antlers strapped to his bicycle handlebars. The man had
- become angry after the officer had tried to stop him from running
- into the street.
-
- - Last September, Michigan state trooper Fred Sweeney pursued a
- speeder doing 101 mph on a state road. Although the speeder had
- a head start, Sweeney came upon his abandoned car in a private
- driveway. Looking around, he noticed that in a nearby field, all
- the cows were clustered together and seemed to be staring at one
- particular spot on the ground. When Sweeney approached the cows,
- he found the driver of the car attempting to hide in the tall
- grass and arrested him.
-
- - Mary Ann Linder of Nashville was arrested for shoplifting at a
- Victoria's Secret store. When asked by clerks in a dressing room
- to hand over the stolen items, Linder stripped off $1,400 worth
- of lingerie and was released to police. In the back seat of the
- squad car **how did they FIND these?????** it was discovered that
- she still had two more pairs of stolen underpants and several
- hangers not recovered by the store employees. At the jail,
- guards found $300 worth of even more stolen clothing on her.
- final tally: 30 panties, 20 bras, 4 robes, and one pair of men's
- silk pajamas.
-
- - From the "Police Beat" of the Upper Arlinton (Ohio) News: A
- woman who lives in the 1900 block of Tremont Road reported to
- police that while she was watching cable television at 11:15 PM,
- saturday, the channel changed to a pay-per-view adult movie.
- After it happened again, she told the police she spotted two
- teenage boys outside her living room window holding a romote
- control. She said the boys fled on foot.
-
- - Gilbert DaSilva, 46, was arrested in Peabody, Mass, a week
- after he assaulted another man during a heated argument in Greg's
- Lounge over which of the men had the larger penis. When the
- victem exposed himself to prove his claim, DsSilva slashed the
- man's organ, but the man was able to get to the hospital in time
- to save it.
-
- REAL WEIRD:
-
- - In December, a 51 year old man with no criminal record was
- referred to psychiatrists after being picked up by police in
- Parma, Ohio. He had just purchased 19 guns from K-Mart, told the
- clerk "not to come out tonight" and paid $7,000 for fabric at
- another store after telling her that it was for "covering up
- bodies." Parma police recognized the man as the one picked up
- the week before: Spotted placing donuts on headstones at a local
- cemetary, the man explained, "People get hungry." Said a police
- officer, "We could of had a real disaster here."
-
- UH DUH!!
-
- - Peter Robert Arnoldi was apprehended shortly after
- burglarizing the Co-op Oil Association office in Nicollet, Minn.
- His arrest was fascilitated by the fact that his checkbook (with
- drivers license inside) had slipped out during his hasty get-
- away. Arresting officer Don Wersal, who found Arnoldi hiding in
- a truck near his home, said he told Arnoldi, "I've got your
- checkbook," to which Arnoldi replied "Yeah, I know. I'm fucked,
- huh?"
-
- WHAT'S NEXT??
-
- - One man was shot in the head and another was critically
- injured in a subway car in Queens, NY after a gunfight.
- According to witnesses, the melee was precipitated when one of
- the men accidentally stepped on the other's foot.
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