xxxNews Of The Weirdxxx
.Bizarre but true stories about real people collected by syndicated columnist Chuck Shepherd.
Lawrence Brown, 91, was arrested in June after an armed standoff with police, who said he was operating a drug market out of his home in order to, according to one officer, “supplement his Social Security income” (Chicago).
Dorothy Densmore, 86, was arrested in May for having called 911 20 times in a 40-minute period to complain of poor pizza-service delivery and then biting the officer who came to question her (Charlotte, N.C.).
Vera Tursi, 80, who uses an oxygen tank and a walker, was nonetheless arrested in June and charged with running a prostitution service out of her apartment in a low-income project (Lindenwold, N.J.).
A 54-year-old man in the Tokyo suburb of Musashimurayama became the latest person to be killed by a suicide jumper’s inadvertently landing on him (December).
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