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People are stupid, with a capital 'S'
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Date: Tue, 16 Feb 93 18:18:06 PST
From: Chuck Shepherd <cshepherd@igc.apc.org>
Message-Id: <9302170218.AA23523@igc.apc.org>
To: subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: News of the Weird
WEIRDNUZ.264 (News of the Weird, February 26, 1993)
by Chuck Shepherd
Lead Story
* At a November public meeting of Los Angeles county
government's four-year-old Ritual Abuse Task Force,
several members of the 14-person commission renewed
their claims that satanic forces were spraying a
pesticide into their offices, homes, and cars in order
to prevent them from revealing their experiences of
human sacrifice, torture, and sex orgies. One member
said she was poisoned during a Task Force meeting in
the Los Angeles Hall of Administration. None of the
members who have made such claims have given any
medical evidence of the poisoning. Said the county's
chief of toxic epidemiology, who was in attendance, "I
can't believe I'm sitting here listening to this." [Los
Angeles Times, 12-1-92]
November Election Recap
* New York state Sen. Howard Babbush won re-election
despite efforts by prosecutors over the last five years
to bring him to trial on corruption charges. Babbush
has claimed for the last two years that he is too ill
to stand trial. Said he, "There's a big difference
between standing trial and taking care of the needs of
my constituents." [Daily Capital News, Jefferson City,
Mo., 10-31-92]
* Bernard Hale, candidate for treasurer of Cannon
Township in Michigan, was arrested in July when his car
was stopped at 5 a.m. and found to contain 31 political
yard signs, most of them for his opponents. He said he
was just trying to clean up the neighborhood. [Detroit
Free Press, 7-10-92]
* Althea Garrison, 52, a black female Republican, was
elected to the Massachusetts Legislature. Before 1976,
according to records obtained by the Boston Herald,
Garrison was a man, known as Al Garson. [Boston Herald,
11-6-92]
* In North Bend, Ore., Arlis Akin won a city council
seat in a dice roll after he and Dean Smith had tied
with 2,236 votes each. Akin had been charged in
October with raping a 20-year-old woman in Coos Bay and
will stand trial in March. [Eugene Register-Guard, 11-
25-92]
* Iowans, by 540,000 to 400,000, voted to amend their
constitution so as not to permanently disqualify from
public office anyone who has ever engaged in a duel.
[Memphis Commercial-Appeal, 11-5-92]
Family Values
* For over a year, Sandra McMahan Irwin has blocked the
execution of the will of her late ex-husband William
Kane, who committed suicide in October 1991. Kane's
girlfriend, Deborah Hecht, is claiming from the estate
the vial of Kane's frozen sperm, which he had stored
just for her. However, Irwin, and Kane's grown
children, are challenging Hecht, saying that Kane was
not of sound mind when he promised Hecht the sperm. In
December, a judge ordered the sperm destroyed, but
Hecht appealed. [San Francisco Chronicle-AP, 9-28-92]
* A 53-year-old Vancouver, British Columbia, man
identified only as Michael S. said in November he would
appeal to the B. C. Supreme Court in his efforts to
gain custody of the two children (aged 5 and 7) he
fathered during a 10-year affair with his daughter, now
28. Though she says he manipulated her, he said the
affair was consensual and wants the law against incest
declared unconstitutional. [Globe and Mail, 11-28-92;
Edmonton Journal, 11-18-92; Edmonton Sun 11-21-92]
* Witnesses told Chicago police in September that
Matthew Hall, 32, held his two-year-old son out the
window as a shield while he pulled a drive-by shooting.
And Arturo Buitron, 32, died in a shootout in
Sacramento, Calif., in November after a car chase in
which he dangled his year-old daughter out the window
by her feet because he wanted his wife to come back
home following a quarrel. [Chicago Tribune, 9-13-92;
Los Angeles Times, 11-12-92]
* Dicey Mae Weathers, 83, was arrested in Covington,
Ky., in December and charged with attempting to pass
drugs to her incarcerated son, William, during a
jailhouse visit. She had sewn the drugs into the label
of a pair of sweat pants she had brought him. [Columbus
Dispatch-Scripps-Howard, 12-6-92]
* Artis Anderson and Phyllis Brashears were married
September 1 in Monticello, Ky. Anderson had filed a
lawsuit against Brashears in November 1991 for backing
out of the wedding but dropped it in February 1992 when
they rescheduled it. She allegedly changed her mind
again in July, and Anderson attempted to reinstate the
lawsuit. Said Anderson, after the wedding, "We just
aim to deal with our little problems and get on with
our life." [St. Petersburg Times-AP, 9-29-92]
* Julia Pena, 31, was arrested in Los Angeles last
April for a drive-by shooting. Pena was angered when
her son came home early one morning and complained that
a gang had robbed him at gunpoint of 25 cents. Said
police Sgt. Gary Grubbs, "She got out of bed, got
dressed . . . drove back to the school," and fired off
several shots at gang members. [Los Angeles Times, 4-
24-92]
* Mary Middleton was injured in Batesville, Ark., in
May, when cars driven by Mary and by Oscar Waymon
Middleton (Mary's father-in-law) crashed. After the
crash, the two got out of their cars and exchanged
gunfire. When family members went to bail out Oscar
and Mary later, more fighting broke out, and several
police officers were injured. [Arkansas Democrat-
Gazette, May92]
Uh-Oh
* Japan Times reported in August that Hiroshi Totsuka
intends to demonstrate soon his purported cure for
cancer. Totsuka said he will repeatedly submerge
cancer patients in water right up to the point of
drowning, hoping to stimulate their will to live and
their bodies' anti-cancer agents. [Japan Times, 8-31-
92]
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Date: Tue, 16 Feb 93 22:29:03 -0500
To: Automatic Subgenius Digestifier <Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu>
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Subject: People are stupid, with a capital 'S'
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Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1993 17:30:53 GMT
From: hucka@engin.umich.edu (Michael Hucka)
Organization: University of Michigan AI Lab
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Subject: People are stupid, with a capital 'S'
Newsgroups: alt.misanthropy
... and here's another reason to hate them:
Blasting Cap Explodes in Man's Mouth at Party
KINCAID, W.Va. (AP) - A man at a party popped a blasting cap
into his mouth and bit down, triggering an explosion that blew off
his lips, teeth and tongue, state police said Wednesday.
Jerry Stromyer, 24, of Kincaid, bit the blasting cap as a prank
during a party late Tuesday night, said Cpl. M.D. Payne.
``Another man had it in an aquarium, hooked to a battery, and
was trying to explode it,'' Payne said. ``It wouldn't go off and
this guy said, `I'll show you how to set it off.'
``He put it in his mouth and bit down. It blew all his teeth
off, his tongue and his lips,'' Payne said.
Stromyer was listed in guarded condition Wednesday with
extensive facial injuries, according to a spokesman at Charleston
Area Medical Division.
``I just can't imagine anyone doing something like that,'' Payne
said.
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- -- Mike
_____________________________________________________________________________
Mike Hucka | Internet: hucka@engin.umich.edu
University of Michigan AI Lab | 1101 Beal Ave., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2110
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To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: utci'waiwa wetco'we! utci'waiwa wetco'we!
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 93 15:05:30 +0000
From: Gordon Joly <G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <9302161005.aa05168@mc.lcs.mit.edu>
I Am Curious, Yellow...
El Gordo,
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