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Bizarre but true stories about real people collected by syndicated columnist Chuck Shepherd.
Rural Ottawa County, Mich., trying to stem the migration to the area by prissy urbanites, started handing out brochures that earthily describe the atmosphere of farm communities and which contain a scratch-and-sniff section of the odor of manure (August).
Julio Cesar Cu, 42, and his three diving partners work exclusively by touch because their full-time job is in water so dark that flashlights are useless: to unclog and repair the antiquated Mexico City sewers (“a sea of human waste and industrial chemicals,” according to an April Los Angeles Times dispatch). The city itself is in a valley surrounded by mountains, with frequent flooding and poor drainage in its combined storm water-sewage system. Said one environmentalist, “You walk the streets, smell the stench of raw sewage, and can only imagine what’s happening underground.”
Jason Glen Humphrey, 29, was charged with taking indecent liberties for what prosecutors said was a year-long spree of leering at mothers as they changed infants’ diapers in semi-public places, or questioning women about their toddlers’ bowel movements (Hillsborough, N.C., July).
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