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Weird News Volume 7
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KING WEIRD:
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- At the 80th birthday calebration for Kim Il-sug, the North
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Korean dictator received as gifts a container of blood from 800
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snapping turtles (considered an aphrodisiac) from his son, and a
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quilt and sleeping mat made of down from the necks of 700,000
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sparrows. A 100-room museum houses over 87,000 presents given to
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him during his 44 year reign. (A gift from a correspondent for
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the British Broadcasting Corp was politely refused by North
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Korean officials because, first, it was merely a BBC sweatshirt,
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and second, it wasn't gift-wrapped.)
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ON THE BLOTTER:
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- From the "Police" column of the Brooklyn Park (Minn) Sun-Post:
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An officer found a quarter in the seat of a squad car. The coin
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was inspected, inventoried, tagged, and logged in as required.
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- Keven E. Tibbs, 21, was arrested in Brunswick Md in February.
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According to Officer Robin Purdum, Tibbs had attempted to steal a
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parking meter and was trying to conceal it in his pants when he
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was stopped.
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- Randall Eugene Davis, who has only one leg, was arrested in
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Clarinda, Iowa, in March, suspected of stealing a truck. The
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truck contained several animals, among which was a Labrador
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retriever with only three legs.
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- From the "Police Report" column of the Kerville (Texas) Daily
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Times: a 23 year old man was arrested for assault on a police
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officer when he allegedly tried to gore an off-duty officer with
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deer antlers strapped to his bicycle handlebars. The man had
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become angry after the officer had tried to stop him from running
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into the street.
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- Last September, Michigan state trooper Fred Sweeney pursued a
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speeder doing 101 mph on a state road. Although the speeder had
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a head start, Sweeney came upon his abandoned car in a private
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driveway. Looking around, he noticed that in a nearby field, all
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the cows were clustered together and seemed to be staring at one
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particular spot on the ground. When Sweeney approached the cows,
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he found the driver of the car attempting to hide in the tall
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grass and arrested him.
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- Mary Ann Linder of Nashville was arrested for shoplifting at a
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Victoria's Secret store. When asked by clerks in a dressing room
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to hand over the stolen items, Linder stripped off $1,400 worth
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of lingerie and was released to police. In the back seat of the
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squad car **how did they FIND these?????** it was discovered that
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she still had two more pairs of stolen underpants and several
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hangers not recovered by the store employees. At the jail,
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guards found $300 worth of even more stolen clothing on her.
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final tally: 30 panties, 20 bras, 4 robes, and one pair of men's
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silk pajamas.
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- From the "Police Beat" of the Upper Arlinton (Ohio) News: A
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woman who lives in the 1900 block of Tremont Road reported to
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police that while she was watching cable television at 11:15 PM,
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saturday, the channel changed to a pay-per-view adult movie.
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After it happened again, she told the police she spotted two
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teenage boys outside her living room window holding a romote
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control. She said the boys fled on foot.
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- Gilbert DaSilva, 46, was arrested in Peabody, Mass, a week
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after he assaulted another man during a heated argument in Greg's
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Lounge over which of the men had the larger penis. When the
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victem exposed himself to prove his claim, DsSilva slashed the
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man's organ, but the man was able to get to the hospital in time
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to save it.
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REAL WEIRD:
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- In December, a 51 year old man with no criminal record was
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referred to psychiatrists after being picked up by police in
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Parma, Ohio. He had just purchased 19 guns from K-Mart, told the
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clerk "not to come out tonight" and paid $7,000 for fabric at
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another store after telling her that it was for "covering up
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bodies." Parma police recognized the man as the one picked up
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the week before: Spotted placing donuts on headstones at a local
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cemetary, the man explained, "People get hungry." Said a police
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officer, "We could of had a real disaster here."
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UH DUH!!
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- Peter Robert Arnoldi was apprehended shortly after
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burglarizing the Co-op Oil Association office in Nicollet, Minn.
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His arrest was fascilitated by the fact that his checkbook (with
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drivers license inside) had slipped out during his hasty get-
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away. Arresting officer Don Wersal, who found Arnoldi hiding in
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a truck near his home, said he told Arnoldi, "I've got your
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checkbook," to which Arnoldi replied "Yeah, I know. I'm fucked,
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huh?"
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WHAT'S NEXT??
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- One man was shot in the head and another was critically
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injured in a subway car in Queens, NY after a gunfight.
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According to witnesses, the melee was precipitated when one of
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the men accidentally stepped on the other's foot.
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