xxxNews Of The Weirdxxx
Bizarre but true stories about real people collected by syndicated columnist Chuck Shepherd.
A 21-year-old student accidentally strangled himself with his belt, which he had looped around a door handle in a contraption to keep his head from nodding off during a marathon study session (Bangkok, Thailand, July).
Two customers and an employee were trapped inside Sam’s Mini Market for two hours on Thanksgiving Day by successive swarms of bees that coated the front door, until firefighters foamed them off (Chatsworth, Calif.).
Panda bear experts announced that “dating” software had been developed to match males’ and females’ personality characteristics so as to improve mating opportunities (Beijing).
An aboriginal Manitoba (Canada) woman alleged racial profiling when she was not allowed to buy hairspray at an Extra Foods store, probably because owners feared she only wanted to drink it (Winnipeg).
Britain’s Office of Fair Trading charged the toy company Hasbro (maker of Monopoly) with retail price-fixing.
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