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Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 17:38:55 PST
From: Chuck Shepherd <cshepherd@igc.apc.org>
Message-Id: <9301130138.AA15276@igc.apc.org>
To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
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Subject: News of the Weird
WEIRDNUZ.259 (News of the Weird, January 22, 1993)
by Chuck Shepherd
Lead Story
* A state appeals court in Santa Ana, Calif., upheld a
lower court in December by granting Sheryle Ulyate an
increase in child support payments from her ex-husband
for their 15-year-old daughter, from $2,000 a month to
$6,000 a month. Ulyate said the girl's monthly
expenses included $2,000 for clothing, $300 for
jewelry, and $1,600 for entertainment, and she asked
for $15,000 a month. The ex-husband made a fortune
selling mini-blinds. [Kansas City Star-Orange County
Register, 12-16-92]
Fetishes on Parade
* Last winter, Fort Worth, Tex., police stopped a car
that had been the subject of reports that a bound and
gagged blonde woman had been spotted in the passenger
seat. After deputy sheriff David McPherson stopped the
car, he found that the "woman" was a blow-up doll and
that the driver had been engaged in a "joke." The man
was released after being scolded. [Quad City Times-AP,
2-26-92]
* In May, Kenosha, Wis., police arrested a 40-year-old,
heavyset man inside a women's restroom at the
University of Wisconsin-Parkside, charging him with
disorderly conduct. He was dressed as a French maid,
bound, and handcuffed, and police said he had been
arrested before for a similar incident. Police said he
paid a female student to tie him up, claiming it was
part of a fraternity prank. [Milwaukee Journal, 5-7-92]
* In July, a Jackson Center, Pa., woman reported that
someone used a ladder to climb into the second story of
her home and that apparently all that was missing was
$10 worth of diapers, despite the presence of jewelry
and antiques in the same room as the diapers. [St.
Marys, Pa., Daily Press-AP, 7-11-92]
* In August, Baton Rouge, La., police charged Redmond
McGee, 25, with breaking into a woman's house to
burglarize it and brushing her hair against her will.
[Omaha World Herald-AP, 8-2-92]
* In Toms River, N. J., William Radice, Jr., 20,
pleaded guilty in November to forcing a woman to take
off one of her black loafers and give it to him. He
had accosted her in her driveway as she was unloading
groceries. [Newark Star-Ledger, 11-22-92]
* In Little Rock, the hometown of notorious toe-sucker
Michael Wyatt, a couple reported that a man not fitting
Wyatt's description forced the woman at knifepoint to
submit to a toe-sucking as they left work late one
night in July. The couple was also robbed. [Arkansas
Democrat-Gazette, Jul92]
Pet Projects
* A civilian dog in Knoxville, Tenn., came home in
December carrying in his mouth a bag of cocaine with a
street value of $16,000. His owner declined police
efforts to recruit the dog. [Columbus Dispatch-AP, 12-
17-92]
* London's Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons in
November announced guidelines to discourage vets from
routinely shortening dogs' tails, especially poodles'
and bulldogs'. About 20% of Britain's dogs have been
so "docked," and over 25% of registered breeds have
their tails shortened by tradition. [Greensboro News &
Record-AP, 11-13-92]
* In July, seconds after Pat Lees's prize pigeon Percy
won a France-to-Sheffield (England) homing race,
beating out 900 others, a cat pounced on it and ate it.
By the time Lees could retrieve Percy's tag, as proof
that it had finished the race, two other pigeons had
landed, giving the late Percy only third place. [London
Times, 7-8-92]
* In December, a St. Louis domestic relations judge
decreed that a divorcing couple, Tony and Carla Julius,
were each entitled to custody of one of their two dogs,
but that each Sunday the dogs must play together for
four hours with Tony and four with Carla. [St. Louis
Post-Dispatch, 12-4-92]
* In September, a court in Henley, England, upheld a
local decision to deny a license for an outdoor music
festival because the field was too close to a pig-
breeding center. The magistrates thought the noise
would upset the pigs. [Japan Times-Reuter-Kyodo, 9-12-
92]
The Weirdo-American Community
* A 42-year-old man was found not guilty by reason of
insanity in Gainesville, Fla., in January on charges
that he set fire to 22 churches in Florida, Colorado,
and Tennessee in a 10-month period. The man said he
set the fires as punishment because he thought church
computers were sending him painful signals to be
homosexual. [St. Petersburg Times-AP, 1-5-93; 12-18-92]
Least Competent Person
* David D. Cousins, 22, was arrested for bank robbery
in Quincy, Ill., in November, after being tricked by
the bank's executive vice president, Louis McClelland,
into surrendering after a six-hour standoff.
McClelland had faked a heart attack and told Cousins
that if he died, the robbery would be too gruesome to
be acceptable for movie rights, but that if he got
medical treatment, he could help Cousins sell the story
so they could both achieve fame and fortune. Shortly
afterward, Cousins surrendered. [New Haven Register-AP,
11-29-92]
Inexplicable
* The Tass news agency reported in December that Olga
Frankevich, who fled Soviet security police in 1947
during the Stalinist purge, surfaced from a house in
western Ukraine, where she had been hiding under a bed
for 45 years. Her slightly-bolder sister roamed the
house but never left it. [Houston Post-Reuter, 12-15-
92]
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Subject: Baal plot bedevils conspiratorialists +wierd
