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Bizarre but true stories about real people collected by syndicated columnist Chuck Shepherd.
Friends tried to persuade a 37-year-old man at a party near Greenville, Mich., in September that he was too drunk to drive home safely, but the man became enraged; in the ensuing brawl, the man was clubbed in the head with a flashlight and died.
Parent Deborah Meister, 46, was charged with assault in Anchorage, Alaska, in September following a public meeting on school policies at Central Middle School; according to police, Meister roughed up an assistant principal because she thought he had been too cavalier about the problem of student bullying. Kevin Martzett, 39, was charged with robbery in Cass County, Neb.; according to police, besides taking money from the victim, he also forced the victim to cash a $75 government check made out to "Kevin Martzett."
Among the unsuccessful 2004 write-in presidential candidates
(according to a November report on NJ.com): Jack Grimes of
Maryland, who admires the leadership methodology of Saddam Hussein
but would rely on telepathy and astrology to make tough
presidential decisions;
Sterling Allan of Utah, who alphabetized and then numbered every
word in the Bible and said that the codes he produced told him to
return the United States to the gold standard, among other
insights;
and Randy Crow of North Carolina, who says that despite a
government-implanted chip in his brain, his administration would
crush the "Omega Agency," which steals from people, which staged
the Sept. 11 attacks, and which may have the ability to vaporize
everyone.
Send your Weird News to Chuck Shepherd, P.O. Box 18737, Tampa,
Fla. 33679 or Weird@compuserve.com
Copyright © 2001 by Chuck Shepherd
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