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WEIRD NEWS VOLUME 5
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OH BABY!!
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- John Dawson, 26, was arrested in South St. Paul, Minn, in
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February after the failure of his alleged elaborate scheme to
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have sex. Police say he broke into a young woman's apartment
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just before she arrived, left her a note on the kitchen table,
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then undressed, put duct tape over his eyes, and handcuffed
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himself to her bed. In the note were instructions that she was
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to go into her bedroom immediately and have sex with him because
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a man with a gun had kidnaped him and was waiting to kill yet
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another person if she refused. Instead, she ran to the police,
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and Dawson, who had left the key to his chains on the kitchen
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table, could not free himself before they arrived.
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PEOPLE WITH NO LIVES OF THEIR OWN
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- The San Francisco watchdog organization Consumer Action
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warned in January that adult 900 telephone services often defraud
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their customers by promising more explicit sexual conversation
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than they deliver: "Despite highly suggestive titles and pictures
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of half-naked women in many ads," wrote Consumer Action, "the
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services provided tame, non-sexual conversation."
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- The week of April 26 thru May 2 was Sky Awareness Week in
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Pennsylvania. The sponsoring legislator said the week is
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intended to recognize all that goes on in the sky, including
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rain, wind, light, temperature, and the "interrelationship
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between phenomena in the sky and the Earth's landscape."
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- Conceptual artist Linda M. Montano performed at the
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University of Texas for three nights in November by sitting on a
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sawhorse next to some campus horse statues from midnight to 7 AM.
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She said she was fulfilling a wish she had as a child to run away
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to Texas and ride a horse while listening to Richard Strauss' Der
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Rosenkavalier.
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- Actress Melanie Griffith, 34, telling an interviewer about
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how her role as a Jewish secretary during WWII in the movie
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Shining Through opened her eyes: "I didn't know that 6 million
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Jews were killed. That's alot of people!"
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- Last year, a Buena Vista Pictures production executive bowed
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to pressure from the Humane Association of Los Angeles and had a
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scene cut from a movie version of White Fang, in which a wolf
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attacked a man. Said a Humane Association executive, "I was very
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concerned about that [attack scene] being an anti-wolf
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statement."
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- Magician Doug Henning, on announcing plans that he and the
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Maharishi Mahesh Yogi were planning a 1,500 acre theme park near
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Niagara Falls, which would also emphasize "awakening human
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consciousness," explained to the New York Times why this theme
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park would be different than others: "Most theme parks are
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superficial."
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GIVE ME A BREAK!!
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- Dr. Samson Dubrin, 28, responding to evidence against him in
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the murder of a 20 year old woman in Vista, Calif, in March, told
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a judge that he had not chloroformed her into unconsciousness;
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rather, Dubrin said, she must have passed out when her car passed
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a chemical truck somewhere on the highway.
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- Latest Reporter Claiming Immunity from Prostitution Arrest:
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Robert H. Wilds, 39, a TV reporter in Knoxville, pleaded no
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contest to soliciting a prostitute in November but said, "What
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was in my mind was [not to have sex but] to interview her for a
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story."
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MON STUPID
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- Robert Austin, 33, was suspected by Minneapolis police of
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being the "gorilla gunman" who robbed local retail stores in
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January while wearing a gorilla mask. Police got their biggest
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lead when a maskless Austin robbed the MGM liquor store
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Warehouse: Austin forced the clerk into the office to get money
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and only halfway through the robbery remembered to put the mask
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he was carrying on.
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REAL WEIRD
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- Elmwood Park, NJ, principal Samuel R. Bracigliano, 49,
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recently on trial for molesting teenage boys, repeatedly denied
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the charges in spite of mounting evidence. He denied that the
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extensive collection of pornography the police seized from his
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home was for his sexual pleasure, even though a jar of Vaseline
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was found with the materials, along with pieces of paper,
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discovered in videotape boxes, containing numbers which
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corresponded to the VCR counter numbers at the which sex scenes
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began. Bracigliano said he is a serious photographer of nudes
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and planned use nude Polaroids that police found of teenage boys
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for a display collage and to bring it to school as an example of
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his work. "I was doing my best work yet when I was arrested."
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OUCH
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- Georgina Thompson, 37, was charged in Wellington, Kansas, in
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March with soliciting two men to murder her common-law husband.
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Her promised payment was her husband's collection of baseball
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cards. The two men reported her to police and turned over the
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down payment she had made of 10 of the cards. Said the deputy
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sheriff about the offer of baseball cards, "That's about as mean
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as a wife can get. The only thing lower would have been if she
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offered his hunting and fishing gear."
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