Weird But True

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Come they told him....ba ra pa pa RUM..!

Florida women disarm intruder with ham sandwich and rum
TAMPA, Florida (AP) - Confronted with an armed intruder in their
home, two women plied him with a ham sandwich and rum until he
became groggy and passed out.
Police arrived and arrested Alfred Joseph Sweet, 52, to end the
five-hour episode.
Cathy Ord, 60, and Rose Bucher, 63, said they tried to befriend
the man after he burst through their kitchen window with a
sawed-off shotgun Tuesday night.
They made him a sandwich, gave him a bottle of rum and suggested
he shower and shave so he could "sort of be disguised in his
getaway," Ord said.
"We just treated him with kindness," Bucher said.
She said she had offered Sweet cash and the keys to her
Cadillac, but he just sat with them, holding his gun. The intruder
never said what he wanted, the women said.

(Copyright 2003 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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October 31, 2003 --And speaking of dogs' sex woes, a toy pooch with which Elvis Presley simulated sex during a 1957 Las Vegas show has been sold to a fan for $4,700. Rebecca Hooper, of Cheshire, England, says her new souvenir became famous when RCA Records presented it to the King as a gift and he pretended to make love to it. Fans were so whipped up by the sight, they refused to leave after the show ended, prompting concert bosses to announce for the very first time, "Elvis has left the building."

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Creativity

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - Immigrant smugglers trying to fool law
enforcement officials have painted vehicles to look like a Federal
Express van and even U.S. Border Patrol vehicles.
This week, they tried again - using one painted to look like a
Phoenix TV news truck.
Agents tipped to a home in Naco believed to be harboring illegal
immigrants watched as 10 people climbed into a Ford Explorer and a
Isuzu pickup truck.
The sides and front of the Explorer were painted with a large
"12" and other station insignia on the sides, including the
phrase "12 Stands for Local News."
"On the back side, there was a black door; it looks really good
from the rest of the sides," Border Patrol spokesman Andy Adame
said.
Bert Sass, a producer at the station, KPNX-TV in Phoenix, said
he was unaware of any vehicle having been reported stolen from the
station. A call to the station's news director was not immediately
returned.
Agents on Tuesday found five undocumented immigrants in each
vehicle and charged each driver with felony alien smuggling, Adame
said.

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November 1, 2003 -- You'll have to shed more than your inhibitions to take part in karaoke at the Berlin Station Café in Berlin, Conn. Owner Marty St. Pierre, as a joke, began advertising "Naked Karaoke" about a month ago, and now has a sign-up sheet listing eager vocalist-exhibitionists. But the town has warned St. Pierre he faces a fine and arrest if he goes ahead. He said he plans to sue, so stay tuned.

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OMG help us all!

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November 2, 2003 -- They might hate French diplomacy, but Americans apparently won't let political protest or ideology get in the way of imbibing the better wines the continent has to offer. Despite organized threats to boycott French products when Paris opposed the U.S.-led war in Iraq, Americans overtook Germans as the biggest spenders on France's Bordeaux wines in the 2002-03 sales year.
...my question is why???

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November 3, 2003 -- A female columnist at the Northwestern University school paper in Illinois has sparked a fury by claiming she's the only girl on campus who doesn't own a vibrator. Rachel Bertsche wrote, "Women are so proud to display their vibrator of choice. Every girl I talked to was excited to tell me all about her vibrator and why it was the best one out there. Be it the Rabbit, the Silver Bullet, the Pocket Rocket."Bertsche insists a battery-operated device "just doesn't cut it."

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Zoo visitor swatted while feeding a bear
Monday, November 03, 2003

A woman trying to feed an apple to a caged Alaskan Kodiak bear named Buddy at Space Farms Zoo and Museum in Wantage sustained hand injuries when she reached into the animal's cage yesterday, zoo officials and police said.

Gail Stern, 54, of Hopatcong had been throwing apples to Buddy and another 1,300-pound Alaskan Kodiak bear named Matilda about 2 p.m. when one of the apples hit the bars on the cage and bounced back, police said.

Stern scaled a 4-foot chain- link fence designed to keep visitors away from the bear cage, retrieved the wayward apple and attempted to place it in Buddy's cage, according to the State Police and zoo co- owner Parker Space.

Buddy swiped at the apple and caused severe cuts to Stern's right hand, police said. She was taken to Morristown Memorial Hospital for treatment, police said.

Stern told State Trooper F. Nobile that she fed the bears apples "because she thought they were vegetarians and didn't like meat," according to a police report. No charges have been filed, police said.

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Sing along........

MONTREAL (Reuters) - The lawyer for a man convicted
of shooting and killing a policeman apologized Monday for
singing the Bob Marley hit "I Shot The Sheriff" as he was
leaving the courtroom.
Despite the apology, the Quebec Law Society has opened an
disciplinary investigation against defense lawyer Christian
Gauthier, while the Montreal police union is planning to make a
formal complaint.
"I'm sincerely sorry to know today that family members (of
the victim) and policemen heard me," Gauthier told Radio-Canada
television.
"If I hurt them, if I added to their plight, I'm sincerely
sorry. I didn't think about it, and if I had, I wouldn't have
sang," he said.
Gauthier was leaving the courthouse during a break in the
murder trial of his client, Stephane Boucher, last week when
his rendition of "I Shot The Sheriff", a cut on Marley's 1973
album "Burnin"', was heard by reporters and police.
"I shot the sheriff, but I swear it was in self-defense,"
the lawyer sang while pacing a corridor.
"It's the story of my client," he replied when a journalist
warned him that his performance had been caught on tape.
His client was later sentenced to 25 years in jail for
shooting and killing policeman Benoit L'Ecuyer on a busy
Montreal highway in February last year. Boucher said he killed
the officer in defense after being shot at while trying to
escape.
Disciplinary action against the lawyer could range from a
fine to disbarment.
REUTERS

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November 4, 2003 -- Score one for free speech. A court in Montana has ruled that kids have the right to ride their school bus and shout "Penis!" over and over again. Bus driver James Campbell, 62,had been charged with assault for hitting a 12-year-old boy who refused to stop saying the word, because it was a "scientific" term, not a derogatory one. The court agreed to drop the charge if Campbell stays out of trouble for a year, but added that he had no right to quash the student's behavior.

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Penis?

Consider it a mobile sex ed program.

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"PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS"....very liberating...lol

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Staying with the theme

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) - A popular karaoke performer was
hospitalized after his jealous wife tried - but failed - to cut off
his penis while he slept Wednesday, Phnom Penh police said.
Kan Bun Hou, 26, was asleep when his wife, Ma Len, attacked him
with a razor blade, said Touch Sarin, a Phnom Penh police chief.
Police were looking for the woman, who fled after the attack.
"The injury is not severe. It could have been worse if she had
used scissors," he said. "His wound is treatable."
The attack apparently stemmed from Kan Bun Hou's popularity as a
karaoke performer. The couple had fought the day before.
"He's a handsome man and used to party a lot at night," Touch
Sarin said.
In August, a man was allegedly killed by his wife after she
squeezed his testicles until he fainted and then tied his neck to a
bed with a scarf. The woman, who said her husband used to beat her,
turned herself in to the police.

(Copyright 2003 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - A five-year-old Dutch girl handed
out "sweets" to classmates that turned out to be ecstasy,
cocaine and heroin pills, police said.
The drugs were confiscated by a suspicious teacher before
any were consumed at the primary school in Hilversum, southeast
of Amsterdam. Police arrested the girl's older brothers aged
21, 19 and 16 and her 43-year-old mother.
Large quantities of soft drugs and hard drugs were found in
the car of the eldest brother. The brothers were in custody,
but their mother was set free after questioning.

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Belgian man saves fish with kiss of life
BRUSSELS, Belgium - A former Belgian ambulance driver put
his first aid skills to good use by reviving one of his pond
fish with mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
Leo Van Aert, 57, was hosting a party at his home near the
Belgian port of Antwerp when his wife noticed the koi -- a
spotted Japanese carp -- floating on the surface of the garden
pond, the Gazet Van Antwerpen said.
Van Aert said the 24-inch long fish was "acting funny",
swimming and jumping frantically before stopping dead in the
water.
He figured the koi had had a heart attack and took it out
of the water to try to resuscitate it, giving it heart massages
before joining lips with the fish.
"After 15 minutes, the fish started to move again so I put
him in the pond ... but when he fell over again I again applied
mouth-to-mouth and heart massages," he said. "That's when the
fish recovered".