xxxNews Of The Weirdxxx
Bizarre but true stories about real people collected by syndicated columnist Chuck Shepherd.
A 19-year-old man was fatally shot in the forehead by his 17-year-old brother after sneering that the kid didn’t have “the guts” to shoot him (and mock-commanding him, “Shoot me, you (expletive deleted in the original story)”) (Albuquerque, September).
A 23-year-old man, who had opened a van’s sliding door and begun pelting cars and mailboxes with rocks as the van drove by, was killed when he fell out and hit his head (Clark County, Ore., August).
An official at Sundon Lower School (Bedfordshire, England) prohibited parents from videotaping the school’s nativity play this year because she feared that photographs could somehow be commandeered by pedophiles (November).
A computer records investigation by the Fox TV station in Seattle found that 347 fugitive felons in the Seattle area are routinely receiving state welfare benefits because law enforcement’s computers can’t access the Social and Health Services computers (December).
A jury put Landon D. May, 20, on death row for two 2001 murders (where he’ll join his father, Freeman May, condemned in 1995 for a murder he committed just after Landon was born) (Lancaster, Pa.).
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