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WEIRD & BIZARRE
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Archive 1995 |
A Good Banging? |
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A Peruvian couple
thought they have found the perfect spot for hot love-making when they snuck
under a tractor-trailer truck. Both were seriously injured when the driver
showed up and decided to drive away. |
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Yummy Dirt |
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TORONTO - Eating
dirt may be good for you. At least, that's what the most recent studies by Susan
Aufreiter of the University of Toronto and William McHaney of York University
are trying to discover. They are using a technique called Instrumental Neutron
Activation Analysis to get a precise chemical breakdown of three samples. The
first sample had been used as "famine food" in China and proved to contain iron,
calcium, vanadium, magnesium, manganese and potassium, all which would be in
short supply during famine. The second sample was soft clay from North Carolina,
which was supposed to be good for general health. It contained iron and iodine,
important for children and women of childbearing age. "It;s an insult to say
'eat dirt,' " Aufreiter said. "But poor Blacks in the South did, and they were
right." The third sample was collected in Zimbabwe and was claimed to cure upset
stomach. The researchers found Kaolinite, the main ingredient in Kaopectate. The
team outlines its findings in the latest issue of the International Journal of
Food Sciences and Nutrition. |
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Headless Frogs Can Save Our Lives |
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LONDON - Dr. Patrick Dixon
claims that in the next five to 10 years there will be great pressure to create
partial fetuses, missing heads, arms and legs as organ factories for tomorrow's
people. The author of "The Genetic Revolution" made this prediction after
Jonathan Slack, a professor of developmental biology at Bath University, said
that he created the frog embryo by gene manipulation and used the same technique
to suppress development of a tadpole's trunk and tail as well. Slack believes
that the same breakthrough can be applied to human embryos because the same
genes perform similar functions. He feels that, if successful, these organs
would exactly match the patient and there would therefore be no danger of
rejection. By suppressing parts of the human, such as the heart and brain,
organs can be cultivated, bypassing many legal restrictions and ethical concerns
because it wouldn't technically qualify as a human embryo. Dixon says that the
power is there, "but you do have to ask fundamental questions before it is too
late." |
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Bad Luck |
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A 73-year-old Hong Kong
woman, who fell into a ditch of a busy road, was left there for almost two days
because nobody wanted to call 999, the emergency services phone number. The
number is considered "unlucky." "It's because of superstition," a police
spokesperson said. "People don't like to call this number." |
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Shit Money? |
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A struggling Russian clock
factory paid its employees in toilet paper. Each worker received 150 rolls as
part of their promised bonus. |
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Body Parts For Sale |
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An inmate, who claims he
was wrongly convicted to life in prison without the possibility for parole, will
not be allowed to sell his body organs to pay for an attorney. Herbert Chastain
wants to sell his kidney, a section of his liver, bone marrow, blood/plasma and
"any other organ and tissue that is non-life-threatening," according to his own
press release. "He's always trying to sell off his body parts," said a prison
spokesperson. "We don't allow inmates to put their pieces on the open market." |
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What Are Friends For? |
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What are friends for?
After Paul Simone died in a car crash, his best friend became the lucky
beneficiary of the dead man's penis -- all 9.75 inches of it -- and plans to get
a penile transplant. |
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Not So Nice Santa |
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SEATTLE - He's played
Santa, baby-sat for neighbours, worked for 13 years as a child care worker, was
active in his church helping teach young children. He's also just been arrested
for molesting children. Ronald C. McDonald (his real name, we swear) confessed
to molesting seven children, but police believe he has been doing this as far
back as the early 1970's. McDonald, who looked like Santa Claus, would take the
children to a special room with toys and kids videos and then fondle them. Many
worried parents have called because there children had so much contact with
McDonald. He is being held on 2 counts of rape in the King County Jail. McDonald
claimed that he did it for the pleasure of the children. |
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Burglar Gets A Headache |
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TUCSON - All he wanted
was a cheap mini boom box, but what he got was a rock hurled at his head. Jeremy
Cattoor, 21, was in the process of breaking into Marsha Pepin's new Jeep Grand
Cherokee when a neighbour heard breaking glass and a car alarm. The neighbour
went to investigate, discovered Cattoor taking something out of the jeep, and
yelled for him to drop it. Cattoor tried to escape, after dropping the radio,
but the neighbour hurled the rock anyhow, hitting him in the head and knocking
him out. Cattoor was taken into custody after being treated at the hospital.
Tucson police spokesman Eugene Mejia said that they prefer people don't confront
a suspect "because that's a dangerous situation."
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