Today's Topics:
new view from the ledge
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Date: Wed, 27 Sep 89 12:29:14 edt
From: Eric Haines <eye!erich@wrath.cs.cornell.edu>
Message-Id: <8909271629.AA00325@spruce>
Subject: new view from the ledge
The latest "View From The Ledge" is out, with lots of weird news. You get
a free subscription if you send strange story clippings to Chuck Shepherd,
c/o Deadfromtheneckup, Inc, PO Box 57141, Washington, DC 20037. Also, by
mid-November at the latest, Plume Books (an imprint of NAL Penguin) will
release _News of the Weird_, a "quality paperback" collection of over 500
of the strangest news stories of the last fifteen years.
Some bits from the latest "View From The Ledge" (#29):
- Newlywed Darrell W. Lewis, 67, got a court order in North Kingston, R.I., to
keep wife Diane, 24, away from their home after she threatened him when he
found her kissing a photograph of Johnny Mathis.
- Robert Cerney and Debbie Burmeister had to be rescued from their folded-up
sofa bed in Winona, Minn., after trying a "stupid human trick" they were sure
would get them an invitation to appear on "Late Night with David Letterman."
- In Stockholm, a 92-year-old man, claiming his doctor had made him blind, set
out to murder him but mistakenly shot and killed the wrong man in a medical
center.
- Jim C. Brady, well-known creationist in Pensacola, Fla., pleaded guilty to
driving through a residential neighborhood and tossing nude photos of himself
out the window to children.
- Richard Rubin, 29, won $10,000 from K-Mart as a result of a 1987 incident in
a Boynton Beach, Fla., store. Rubin accidentally shot himself with a gun the
clerk was showing him, but he had difficulty proving damages for being out of
work since he had not filed income-tax returns for the last 7 years. Rubin
intended the gun as a "first-grade graduation present" for his son, 8.
- A Greenville, S.C., jury gave Evelyn Kuykendall, 67, $300,000 for injuries
suffered when faith healers Charles and Frances Hunter failed to catch her
when she fell backward after having the spinal-injury demons exorcised from
her body; the fall broke her back.
All for now,
Eric Haines
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