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28-04-2001 4:16pm#1One student in 12 at the University of Miami could not locate Miami on a globe.
As a joke, Dallas disc jockey Ron Chapman invited listeners to send him $20, promising 'absolutely nothing' in return, but urging them to 'beat the deadline.' Within a couple of days he had received $240,000.
In the year before a health clinic opened to give contraceptive advice to the 1,000 girls at the Du Sable High School in Chicago, there were 300 pregnancies.
An 18-year old man was sentenced to 10 years in prison in Jacksonville, Florida, on a charge of drug-related murder. He explained that he had been driven into a life of crime because , he claimed, 'people expected me to live up to my namesake.' His father said he had named him Adolph Hitler Clark, 'because he was famous.'
American Midwestern housewife Jean Voight has to keep her small dog Larry in the house or just take him out wrapped in a blanket. Larry, who exercises on a treadmill, has been confirmed by pet psychologists as hating the looks of himself naked as he trots past shop windows.
In Tuscola, Illinois, 77 year old Pearl Kamm was taking her driving test. As she started out , she backed into a tree before hurtling through the window of the test office, killing one person and injuring four others.
In Omaha, Arthur Barker strangled Patricia Pappas when she tried to stop him abusing a cat.
Police Officer Bill Schatzman, 23, of Las Cruces, New Mexico, accidentally shot himself in the foot twice in a two week period.
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Doc:
As a joke, Dallas disc jockey Ron Chapman invited listeners to send him $20, promising 'absolutely nothing' in return, but urging them to 'beat the deadline.' Within a couple of days he had received $240,000.</font>
Definetly the best one, lol
Originally posted by Lucy_la_morte:
J'adore richindub2 mais pas le Spam.
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OK you asked for it…
In the presence of 40,000 fans and a 200 strong police escort, Miss Colombia, Maria Teresa Egurrola, got ready to kick the first ball of the new football season, handing her purse to a bystander to hold for her. He stole it.
The New Jersey Casino Control Commission refused to allow Colonel Oliver North to deliver a speech on family values at one of their establishments because his appearance would 'strain the integrity of the New Jersey casino industry.'
Danielle Dickleman, 27, asked North Dakota judge Cynthia Rothe for leniency for her husband. When he had attempted to kill the family dog, she had intervened , so he shot her instead. However, she claimed the incident had strengthened their marriage.
Fire-fighters were called to Oak Hill Funeral home in San Jose, California, when the cremation of a 21-stone man got out of hand causing $20,000 worth of damage. Firemen blamed the blaze on the build-up of fats from the body.
Eugene Cross was indicted in Chicago for stabbing to death Jimmy Lee Short, 68, his friend of 40 years. According to the police, Short was dining at Cross's apartment when he saw a ****roach and blurted out an expletive which Cross warned him not to repeat . When Short swore again, Cross seized a butcher's knife and plunged it into his heart.
HT Mathis, the 85 year old mayor of Florala, Alabama, was removed from office on charges of mismanagement and improperly pardoning drunk-drivers. He did not help his cause by proclaiming a National Voodoo Day and performing a ritual in front of the city's courthouse with a table of candles and a number of snakes taped to his shoulders.
A new 195-cell jail being built for Duval County, Florida, had no provision for doors because none were included in the original plans. Director of Jails Michael Berg said he wasn't sure how it happened , but that it would cost $1.5 million to put right.
In Knoxville, Illinois, the widow and two children of Carl Stevens were found to have been looking after him as though he were ill when in fact he had been dead for eight years. Sheriff Mark Shearer explained 0 -
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Doc:
OK you asked for it…
In the presence of 40,000 fans and a 200 strong police escort, Miss Colombia, Maria Teresa Egurrola, got ready to kick the first ball of the new football season, handing her purse to a bystander to hold for her. He stole it.</font>
LOL, again, class
Originally posted by Lucy_la_morte:
J'adore richindub2 mais pas le Spam.
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