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Bizarre but true stories about real people collected by syndicated columnist Chuck Shepherd.
High school basketball coach Drew Sanders, 49, was arrested in New York City in July in connection with his method of inspiring two of his summer-program players not to miss free throws. Sanders was charged with more than 20 instances of spanking the boys' bare buttocks for missed shots.
The New York Post, citing a school system investigator, reported in April that high school teacher Rhianna Ellis, 25, had gotten pregnant from an affair with one of her students but had nonetheless later graded the boy a barely passing "65" in her social studies class, due to his laziness and tardiness.
The Chicago Tribune reported in June that a man waiting for a train at the Sox/35th Street station on the South Side had been taken to the hospital after a train knocked him unconscious as he bent over the rail platform looking for the cell phone he had just dropped.
And WSB-TV reported in June that a man had been hospitalized in
Forest City, Ga., after, according to a witness, attempting to
repair a speaker wire by using, in some undisclosed way, a
.22-caliber bullet. "At some point," the station reported, "the man
ended up with a piece of wire in his neck."
(Send your Weird News to Chuck Shepherd, P.O. Box 18737, Tampa
FL 33679 or WeirdNews@earthlink.net or go to www.NewsoftheWeird.com.)
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