Today's Topics:
Bob and The Dead
News of the Weird
Teenager injured 'mooning' freight train
Viral Warfare Testing by the U.S. Gov.
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Date: Wed, 9 Jun 93 09:57:54 EDT
From: El.Borbah@um.cc.umich.edu
To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Message-ID: <23585856@um.cc.umich.edu>
Subject: Bob and The Dead
some hippy chick was peddling crystals at the show last night in Auburn
Hills, home of The Palace, home to the Detroit Pistons. so this asocial
form goes walking by with her black velveted board adorned with large chunks
of quartz on one half and wads of string and cord on the other along with
price tags. ok, i thought, the age of aquarius is upon us all, have yer
faith, get me a beer, and let's get slack. well, when she shuffles by, in
the corner on the back of the board she is holding spies me a sticker of
hissoner, Dr BOB. i go to the fountain of knowledge on this one - what do
the grateful dead and their throng know/care/support about The Man?
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Date: Wed, 9 Jun 93 17:27:29 PDT
From: Chuck Shepherd <cshepherd@igc.apc.org>
Message-Id: <9306100027.AA06667@igc.apc.org>
To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: News of the Weird
I am back with News of the Weird. Because of contract
restrictions, I will be posting NOTW on Thursdays or Fridays, two
weeks after it has been made available to newspapers. (Some run it
late; you may be ahead of them.) With this message is the column
of May 21, with my file name WEIRDNUZ.276. On Thursday, June 10,
or Friday, June 11, I will post WEIRDNUZ.277 (May 28). On June 17
or 18, I will post WEIRDNUZ.278 (June 4), and so on.
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WEIRDNUZ.276 (News of the Weird, May 21, 1993)
by Chuck Shepherd
Lead Story
* New York Newsday reported in April that a 46-year-old
Worcester, Mass., man inexplicably began speaking with
a French accent immediately after he was involved in an
automobile accident last year. Dr. Majis Moonis told
the annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology
that about two dozen cases of "foreign accent syndrome"
have been reported in this century, caused by a change
in the brain circuit involved with motor control that
affects the vocal cords. [Philadelphia Inquirer-
Newsday, 5-1-93]
The Litigious Society
* In March, the U. S. Court of Appeals in Denver
dismissed a civil lawsuit by Merrill Chamberlain, who
is serving a life sentence for the murder of an
Albuquerque, N. Mex., police officer. Chamberlain had
sued the Albuquerque Police Department and the city,
claiming that he wouldn't have been guilty of murder if
the officer had not allowed him surreptitiously to gain
access to his handgun or if the officer had been
wearing a bulletproof vest. [Albuquerque Journal, 4-1-
93]
* In April, Scott Abrams, 27, filed a $2 million
lawsuit against the owners and managers of an apartment
building for injuries he suffered in 1991 when he was
hit by lightning while sitting on the roof of the
building during an electrical storm. He said the
defendants were negligent in maintaining the rooftop
and should have provided signs and brighter paint,
among other things. When hit, Abrams was sitting on a
ledge on the roof with his feet in a water puddle;
rescue workers revived him from cardiac arrest.
[Arlington Journal, 4-13-93]
* In August, Anna Lilienthal, 63, filed a lawsuit
against the city of Simi Valley, Calif., for injuries
suffered at the city's Fourth of July celebration when
a skydiver missed his target and landed on top of her.
[Denver Post, 8-15-92]
* In March, the Wyoming Supreme Court on a technicality
revived Richard Osborn's lawsuit, sending back for
trial his claim that a Casper video store defrauded
him. Osborn said he bought the X-rated "Belle of the
Ball" based on a photo on the package featuring actress
Busty Belle but later discovered that Belle was on-
screen for only eight or nine of the film's 60-plus
minutes. Osborn seeks a refund of the $29.95 purchase
price plus $55.79 in reimbursement for medicine because
he said the stress of not seeing more of Ms. Belle
caused an asthma attack--plus $50,000 for "pain and
suffering." [Denver Post-AP, 3-15-93]
* The Boston Globe reported in April that former Red
Sox pitcher Dennis "Oil Can" Boyd, through his lawyer,
threatened to sue the team for not inviting him to
spring training this year. The lawyer said, in view of
the Red Sox's mediocre pitching prospects for the
coming season, he could find "no apparent baseball
reason for [the team's] rejection of [Boyd's]
overtures." [St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 4-4-93]
* In February, a federal judge in Washington, D. C.,
dismissed a lawsuit filed by a sex offender serving
time in D. C.'s Lorton Reformatory. Michael A. Johnson
had filed the lawsuit for $12,500 because the prison
store had charged him $6.00 for a $5.80 book of twenty
29-cent stamps. [Washington Post, 2-27-93]
* In February, Kenneth Bruckner of Gering, Neb., filed
a lawsuit against the Presbyterian/St. Luke's Medical
Center in Denver, claiming that the cleanser used to
disinfect the toilet seat he was using was highly toxic
and had caused him permanent burns, neurologic
injuries, and urologic and sexual dysfunction. Said
Bruckner's attorney, "What's the world coming to if
it's not safe to sit on the toilet and read the paper?"
[Rocky Mountain News, 2-12-93]
Latest Messages Received
* In March in Port St. Lucie, Fla., four Christian
pastors and two parishioners performed an exorcism of
an oak tree just off Interstate 95. It has long been
known in the community that two victims of a mass
murderer were hanged from the tree in 1977, but things
became more urgent recently when two kids reported
being chased away from the tree by people in hoods
shouting, "We want your blood." Instead of razing the
tree, the property owner elected the exorcism and the
erection of a cross nearby. [Palm Beach Post, 3-5-93,
3-6-93]
* In January in Jerusalem, influential Rabbi Yosef
Ginsberg published a biblical commentary authorizing
Israelis who queue up for services to use force if
necessary to resist efforts by people butting in line.
[New Haven Register-AP, 1-25-93]
* Cody Judy, 27, charged by police with holding a
Mormon Church official hostage in February in Salt Lake
City, told reporters in April to expect that God would
send earthquakes, eruptions, and pestilence in
retaliation for his arrest and that law enforcement
officials would experience "baldness to your heads and
a curse on your private parts." [USA Today, 4-23-93;
Phoenix Gazette 2-8-93]
The Weirdo-American Community
* The New Yorker magazine reported in April that artist
Nancy Rubins's work, appearing at the Kasmin gallery on
Grand Street, consisted of a room "nearly filled" with
"old mattresses dotted with mounds of partially mashed
Entenmann's cakes and suspended a few inches off the
floor." No other information about the exhibit was
given. [The New Yorker, Apr93]
Least Competent Person
* Seattle, Wash., police arrested a 27-year-old man in
April after he attempted to deposit a check into his
account at a Washington Mutual Bank office. According
to a teller, he is the same man who robbed the branch
two days earlier. [Chicago Tribune-Knight-Ridder,
Apr93]
Good News
* In April in Los Angeles, B. R. Chavez, a small, slow-
moving 77-year-old man who said he was sick of riding
paint-vandalized buses, made a citizen's arrest of two
boys, ages 18 and 15, who had started to spray-paint
the bus he was riding. Chavez flashed a card with a
drawing of an eagle on it and announced that the boys
were under arrest. The bus driver signaled a police
car, and the boys went quietly. The older boy was
sentenced to three days in jail plus two years'
probation and 30 hours of graffiti-removal service.
[Los Angeles Times, 4-29-93]
Copyright 1993, Universal Press Syndicate. All rights reserved.
Released for the personal use of readers. No commercial use may be
made of the material or of the name News of the Weird.
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From: UPI <clarinews@clarinet.com>
Subject: Teenager injured 'mooning' freight train
Keywords: railroad accidents, trouble, children, special interest, rail,
transportation
Message-Id: <moonU3u9510pe@clarinet.com>
In-Reply-To: <ca-moonU3u9205pp@clarinet.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 93 14:12:54 PDT
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (UPI) -- Officials said Wednesday a 14-year-old boy
``mooning'' a freight train was struck by the locomotive, suffering
minor injuries.
A spokeswoman for Riverside General Hospital-University Medical
Center said Manuel Moreno, 14, was treated and released.
Moreno and two other boys were walking along the Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe tracks in downtown Riverside shortly after 6 p.m. Tuesday.
As the engineer sounded the horn of the 7,800-ton, two of the boys
jumped clear of the tracks.
Railroad spokesman Mike Martin said the third boy, Moreno, ``pulled
his pants down and 'mooned' the train.'' The engineer was unable to stop
the train, which struck the boy.
The four locomotives and 81 cars were traveling 38 mph when the train
hit the boy. No one else was injured.
The train was on a run from Barstow to San Diego carrying bulk grain,
cement, lumber, plastic pellets, beer, newsprint, automobiles and
liquified natural gas. It was delayed 37 minutes before continuing to
San Diego.
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From: phallus@cats.ucsc.edu
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 93 19:25:41 -0700
Message-Id: <9306100225.AA06822@am.ucsc.edu>
To: subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Viral Warfare Testing by the U.S. Gov.
The recent rash of fatal unknow illness in the American southwest could
be caused by the U.S. Government. It is my theory that they are testing
a viral agent designed to kill off most of the populace of the world.
The testing in the southwest is designed to show them how high their
kill ratio is.
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