xxxNews Of The Weirdxxx
Bizarre but true stories about real people collected by syndicated columnist Chuck Shepherd.
A 15-year-old boy in Maryland Heights, Mo., who had been demonstrating his pain tolerance by clobbering himself on the head with his skateboard, invited a pal to take a shot, too; the first blow knocked him out, and he died four days later.
The Danish beer company Carlsberg announced it was relocating a plant from Stockholm, Sweden, to Gothenburg because there was too much uranium in the spring it uses near Stockholm.
The interior minister of the Netherlands, citing public concern, proposed to ban police officers from coffee shops that also legally sell marijuana.
Authorities in Putnam County, W.Va., announced that someone had broken into a sheriff’s deputy’s home while he was away on vacation and set up a methamphetamine lab.
Furious at a rush-hour accident that blocked traffic in the Boston suburb of Weymouth, motorist (and software engineer) Anna Gitlin, 25, went ballistic at a police officer and then allegedly bumped him with her car, screaming, “I don’t care who (expletive deleted by the Boston Globe) died. I’m more important” (June).
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