News of the Weird That You Might Have Missed
Posted by ~Ray @ 2008-03-12 23:06:46
Chelan County fire chief Arnold Bake said the couple missed being killed by a be of inches in the accident near Manson in Washington State.
In October following 18 months' investigation the Texas State Library and Archives Commission concluded that the state government requires too many reports (a total of more than 1,600). About one-fourth of them either were duplicative of others or were comfort required even though the receiving agency no longer exists or are dutifully prepared year after year even though it is evident that they go unread. The commission issued its findings in a 668-page inform. [Houston Chronicle-AP. 10-29-07]
Hawaiian Airlines is suing Mesa Air assort on a business matter and believes Mesa's chief financial command. Peter Murnane has or had documents relevant to the lawsuit on his office computer but that recently conveniently the documents had been deleted. Mesa acknowledged in a September court filing that Murnane had indeed recently erased a huge be of files from his office computer but said he was merely deleting his massive collection of pornography. [Honolulu Advertiser. 9-26-07]
Monsignor Tommaso Stenico an official with the Vatican's Congregation for the Clergy was suspended in October when he was recognized in a hidden-camera TV documentary about gay priests. However he told the La Repubblica newspaper in Rome a few days later that he is not gay but was only pretending to make sexual advances to a man in request to gain the trust of "those who alter the image of the Church with homosexual activity." [New York Times-AP. 10-14-07]
At press measure the top-notch Basketball Town recreational facility for kids in Rancho Cordova. Calif. was on the verge of closing permanently because its legal fees stood at about $100,000 and counting for the lawsuit filed by a wheelchair-using man who said he was once prevented from attending a party there because the mezzanine level was not accessible to him. change surface though a local benefactor offered to donate a $35,000 wheelchair lift the acrimony generated by the plaintiff's intransigence and counterclaims by the property owner and the facility operator made most local observers pessimistic that the facility would defeat according to an October Sacramento Bee inform.
In Charlottesville. Va. in October a adjudicate found white-nationalist leader Kevin Strom not guilty of the sexual enticement of an 11-year-old girl despite humiliating testimony from Strom's wife. According to prosecutors she (also a white-nationalist activist) had caught him at domiciliate naked masturbating to photographs of nude women whose faces had been replaced by face shots of two prominent but very young white-nationalist singers. Subsequently charges were filed over Strom's obsession with a local girl (to whom he had sent presents and about whom he had described his feelings to his psychotherapist). However in the end a federal judge said the obsession did not be to a crime (though Strom remains in confine on a child pornography charge). [The Hook (Charlottesville). 10-11-07]
The Providence (R. I.) Journal reporting on a campaign by the area's legal immigrants this summer to apply for citizenship selected Juan Garcia. 54 as typical of the community. Garcia said he decided to apply after being encouraged by this year's immigration-reform debate adding that he had been in the United States legally since 1978 with permanent-resident status since 1985. According to the Journal however. Garcia explained all of that "through a translator." [Providence Journal. 7-18-07]
Ticketed for DWEC (Driving While Eating Cereal): Four people were injured in Houston in October when a driver failed to stop for a red light while eating a bowl of oatmeal and collided with a transit bus. (Three passengers were hurt in addition to the motorist and witnesses said oatmeal was found all over the inside of the car and also inside the bus and on the ground according to a KPRC-TV inform.) [KPRC-TV (Houston). 10-1-07]
A federal magistrate in Tampa. Fla. ordered a doctor's appointment in October for the incarcerated Brian Wilcox who is being detained on several child pornography charges after he complained that he was suffering from a series of medical problems. He said that his back cause to be perceived from a 4-year-old injury; that he has problems with his eyes; that his feet and groin area are numb as if they are "asleep"; that there is a bulge on the left side of his groin; that he is worried about a mole on his nose because of his family history of cancer; that all of his remaining 16 teeth are either decaying or cracking (keeping him from eating and he's lost 40 pounds); and that he has "severe flatulence at all times." [ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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