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FAX NIKITA: Strange But TRUE
Strange but TrueContributed by Bob Powers, Marietta, OHA first grade teacher collected well-known proverbs. She gave each child in her class the first half of a proverb, and had them come up with the rest. Their insight may surprise you...
Better to be safe than.....Punch a 5th grader.
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And the Anagram: "In one of the Bard's best-thought-of tragedies, our insistent hero, Hamlet, queries on two fronts about how life turns rotten."
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The Anagram: "A thin man ran; makes a large stride, left planet, pins flag on moon! On to Mars!" Contributed by Terry Terrian, Santa Rosa, CAAnitoch CA. - Police have arrested a fugitive who accidentally shot off his testicles during a failed burglary.Richard "Greg" Oliver, 29, was arrested Monday in Modesto after leading police on a high speed chase on fog-covered Highway 99. Police caught him after he crashed his car. Authorities had been searching for Oliver since Dec. 23, when he fled from police who were trying to arrest him for an alleged burglary attempt. Oliver apparently had a shotgun stuffed in his pants that went off as he climbed a fence.
Neighbors reported hearing someone say,"Oh God.Oh God no,"police said. -- Press Democrat news services, Sept., 1996 (Santa Rosa Ca.)
Melvyn Nurse, 35, a clergyman, used a .357 calibre Magnum revolver loaded with one blank round to dramitise his sermon before a packed congregation at Livingway Christian Fellowship Church International in Jacksonville, Florida, on 26 September. He illustrated each of the seven deadly sins by playing Russian Roulette, spinning the chamber and holding the gun to his head. After one spin, the gun fired and the cardboard wadding in the blank pierced his temple, inflicting fatal brain damage. He fell out of sight and the congregation of 250, including his wife Debra and their four daughters, waited, thinking Mr. Nurse would resume his sermon. He was eventually rushed to University Medical Centre, where he died five days later.
Blanks contain a hard cardboard like materiel (wadding) that shoots several feet from the barrel when fired. It seemed that Nurse didn't realise they could cause injury. -- AP, Reuters 2 Oct.
A young Saudi man, camping with two friends on top of a mountain, was killed instantly when he took a call from a friend on a cell phone during a storm and the phone was struck by lightning. -- Johannesburg Citizen, 4 Sept.1998 Pascal Gbah, 49, a colonel and electronics engineer in the Ivory Coast army, was fatally wounded by gunfire on 24 August as he tested a "magic" belt supposedly with powers to protect him from bullets. He died on the spot near the western town of Albosso after being hit by a bullet fired from his own service pistol by a 20 year-old son of the magic belts maker. Gbah's cousin Andre Gondo, who made the belt, insisted that it's protective powers were real, provided one abstained from sex while wearing it. Gbah is survived by his wife and six children. An army spokesman said Gondo had been arrested and his son was on the run. -- Reuters, 26 aug 1998
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