xxxNews Of The Weirdxxx
Bizarre but true stories about real people collected by syndicated columnist Chuck Shepherd.
A 47-year-old man was arrested for allegedly trying to steal a woman’s backpack, his 177th arrest (Boulder, Colo.).
Joseph DiGirolamo, 43, distraught over domestic problems, allegedly barricaded himself inside an ex-girlfriend’s home in Boston and hurled household items (TV set, room air conditioner, broomstick, a pot of boiling water) at police officers, threatening to kill them, before he was subdued (May).
Latest Alarming Headlines:
(1) “Man With Ear Ache Gets Vasectomy” (an August Reuters dispatch from Rio de Janeiro about a patient who answered the wrong doctor’s call at a clinic and endured the procedure because he thought the ear inflammation had deep roots).
(2) “Groups Fight Over Fate of Feral Chihuahuas” (an August Reuters report on 170 wild Chihuahuas taken from a breeder in Acton, Calif., and ultimately given to one animal rescue outfit rather than another).
(3) “Woman With No Baby Given Caesarean” (a September Melbourne (Australia) Herald Sun report on an overweight woman who went into cardiac arrest at a hospital after telling doctors she was pregnant, motivating them to try to deliver the baby in case they couldn’t save her). (She survived; the baby never existed.)
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