Today's Topics:
Bucket-o-Hoax
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From: Christopher Penrose <penrose@silvertone.princeton.edu>
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 92 16:41:29 EDT
Message-Id: <9209292041.AA06195@dobro>
To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Bucket-o-Hoax
Cc: penrose@silvertone.princeton.edu
PARIS (UPI) -- The skeleton of a former mayor of the southern French
city of Juzes was found in a hospital basement eight years after he
disappeared from his hospital room, the current mayor said Saturday.
Lucien Puget, hospitalized for ``psychological problems,''
disappeared from his room in a Toulouse hospital on Feb. 5, 1984.
His skeleton was found by workers in early July in a seated position
at the bottom of a 6-square-foot pit in basement corner under the
hospital's emergency room.
Although the clothes on the skeleton were in shreds, there was a
label with the name of the patient and his room number on his pajamas,
making identification easy.
Puget disappeared one Sunday afternoon after telling other patients
he was going to visit his wife. An extensive search proved fruitless.
LOS ANGELES (UPI) -- A parking enforcement officer who placed a ticket
on the dashboard of a car with a slain man at the wheel was distracted
and didn't notice the corpse, officials said.
In an unusual statement released by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's
Office, authorities said the unidentified parking control officer never
saw the shooting victim because his attention was focused on another man
on the street.
``The parking control officer who issued the ticket had received a
number of threats from recipients of tickets in the past,'' said
sheriff's Sgt. Ron Spear. ``So he issues tickets and immediately moves
on.''
After writing the ticket Friday morning, Spear said, the traffic
officer walked toward the Cadillac that had the driver's window open,
but he never looked inside the car.
The reason, Spear said, was that the traffic officer was watching a
man on the street that he believed to be a gang member and who was
staring at the officer.
The officer ``quickly approached the Cadillac, dropped the ticket on
the dash and -- keeping his eye on the man across the street -- quickly
turned around and went back to his vehicle.''
``He never looked into the car,'' Spear said.
The victim, identified as Khumasi Bridges, 46, of Los Angeles, was
slumped to the passenger side of the vehicle, which was parked on Piru
Street in the Willowbrook area. Shot once in the head, the victim had
been dead for several hours when the ticket was issued, authorities
said.
Police had no suspects in the slaying.
Spear said the civilian parking enforcement official was described by
his superiors as conscientious, and investigators are satisfied that he
just didn't see the body.
EDMONTON, Alberta (UPI) -- A 30-year-old Edmonton man is in hospital
and facing charges after crashing his light plane through the front door
of his estranged girlfriend's home early Wednesday morning.
Police said the man, who suffered serious head injuries, skilfully
flew the Cessna 150 between two light standards and right into the
woman's home.
There were no other injuries because police had evacuated the home
and about 100 other residents within a two-block area.
``The plane came right over and scared us, it startled us, we got in
behind the trees. I don't know what good that would have done,'' said
Jim Maloney, who lives next to the targeted home.
``We knew it was pretty dangerous and got out,'' Maloney said.
Maloney and about 100 other neighbors were evacuated by police two
hours before the crash, but the crowd heard the crash.
``We were off south of the house and the plane came directly over top
of us. You could hear the power was shut off and we knew he was coming
down. We heard it when he crashed...it wasn't much of a noise actually,''
Maloney said.
Edmonton police spokesman Annette Bidniak said the crash resulted
from a ``domestic situation...an estranged relationship.''
Bidniak said the estranged 23-year-old woman and her parents were
evacuated from the house.
Bidniak said the pilot circled the house for almost two hours and
threatened to crash the plane into the house if he wasn't allowed to
talk to the woman.
``Apparently the plane ran out of gas. The pilot was circling between
this location and the Municipal Airport for an hour and 45 minutes to be
precise. The plane ran out of fuel and he simply glided into the front
of the house,'' Bidniak said.
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