xxxNews Of The Weirdxxx
Bizarre but true stories about real people collected by syndicated columnist Chuck Shepherd.
Recent Alarming Headlines:
— “Flying Bowling Ball Breaks Bone in Woman’s Leg” (a July Greensboro, Ga., Herald-Journal story about a driver running over a bowling ball, pinching it out from under a tire with great force and hitting a woman walking to her mailbox);
–“Bible Study Group Captures Murder Suspect” (a September Arizona Republic story about six men dropping their Bibles to rush to their host’s garage to stop a fugitive trying to steal a car);
–“Flies Are Like Us: Scientists” (a July News Limited story on discoveries by the Neurosciences Institute of San Diego that fruit flies show human-like anticipation of alarm, among various learning, memory and perception traits).
A 27-year-old man was charged with poisoning a drinking-water reservoir, hospitalizing at least 42 people, in order to boost sales of his water purifiers (Henan province, China).
Send your Weird News to Chuck Shepherd, P.O. Box 18737, Tampa, Fla. 33679 or [email protected]
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