This weeks news of the weird - P2P-Zone

mike4947 · 19-11-01, 08:18 PM

News of the WeirdTM
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Former CIA officer Victor Marchetti told London's Daily Telegraph in November that the Company had a project in the 1960s ("Acoustic Kitty") in which a cat had batteries and wires surgically installed, with an antenna in the tail, so that it could be placed close to enemy operatives and transmit eavesdropped conversations back to a monitoring station. The project was five years in development when the first Kitty was deployed, but it was immediately run over by a taxicab. [Daily Telegraph, 11-4-01]

A couple of days after the problem was highlighted in a Reuters news story (but several weeks after it had been going on), the Pentagon decided to change the color of the food packages it was dropping in Afghanistan, from yellow to blue, so recipients would be less confused. For several weeks, it had been dropping yellow packages of food and yellow packages of cluster bombs, along with fliers that explained that the square yellow packages were food and the cylindrical yellow packages were bombs, and urging people to open the former but avoid the latter. [Reuters, 10-29-01; Associated Press, 11-2-01]

In Contrast to Those Who Hold Grudges for Five Centuries: An October San Francisco Chronicle dispatch from Cape Town, South Africa, reported that the parents of Amy Biehl (who was murdered by a mob of South African black kids in a racially motivated attack in 1993) have come to grips with their tragedy to such an extent that they have established a foundation in Cape Town to help rescue kids in poverty and have hired their daughter's two principal killers to work for the foundation in order to rehabilitate their lives. [San Francisco Chronicle, 10-28-01]

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Transsexuals in the Mainstream
A judge rejected both the ex-wife's and the biological (from-the-womb) son's demands for the ashes of the late Patrick (formerly Pauline) Corn, and disposed of them according to the directions in Corn's will (Monticello, Ind., October). And former police captain Scott Cote said he would help prosecutors and testify about his estranged wife's worker-compensation fraud scheme but would only do so as Stacey Cote, his new identity (Miami, September). And Australia's Green party was represented in November elections in a Melbourne district by candidate Tony Briffa, 31, an open hermaphrodite who recently began living as a man. [Monticello Herald-Journal, 10-11-01] [Miami Herald, 9-26-01] [Associated Press, 10-18-01]

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Latest Religious Messages

Arson and Nakedness: The property-eschewing religious sect Doukhobours were in the news again recently. (The sect's breakaway Freedomites ritually burn property and ritually remove their clothes.) Mary Braun, 81, was convicted of setting fire to a college building in Nelson, British Columbia, in October. Her rap sheet for this type of thing is lengthy, and this episode appeared to be another of her revelations. She tried to attend court sessions nude, but staff members covered her with blankets. [Canoe-Canadian Press, 8-29-01; Reuters, 10-23-01]

Israeli security agents scrambled to high alert in September over what they feared was a suicide parachuter from Jordan, landing near the airport in the town of Eilat, Israel. It turned out merely to be Rabbi Shimon Eizenbach carrying out a pre-Yom Kippur ritual of kapparot, floating down in an ultralite glider while holding a hen in one cage (to atone for women) and a rooster in another (for men). Security forces held their fire, and the town was duly blessed. [Jerusalem Post, 9-26-01]

In August, following an Israeli helicopter raid on the offices of the radical organization Hamas, the High Islamic Council in Saudi Arabia decreed for the first time that females would be allowed to be suicide bombers. (Two days later, a 23-year-old mother of two was arrested with 15 pounds of explosives at Tel Aviv's central bus station.) [Straits Times-Sunday Times (London), 8-6-01]

In August, a Yorba Linda, Calif., Catholic official told the Los Angeles Times that a recent $5.2 million pedophile-priest settlement included a requirement that the church begin to install confessional doors that have windows, to help protect parishioners from priests. Said the official, "Building a church that creates a safe and open environment will be very important to (us)." [Los Angeles Times, 8-22-01]

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Cultural Diversity

In western Kenya near Lake Victoria, the Wanga faction of the Luhya tribe continue to practice "wife inheritance," in which a woman who becomes a widow is obliged to marry another family member (or risk acquiring a curse), a practice that opponents say is particularly bad in light of the region's high HIV-infection rate. According to a May Agence France-Presse dispatch, tradition provides that if a widow refuses to remarry, the family upon her death pays any available man to have sex with her corpse so that she can be posthumously "inherited" and her soul saved. [Bangkok Post-AFP, 5-6-01]

According to an October Knight Ridder dispatch from Vietnam, a favorite trysting place for prostitutes and their customers is the museum that used to be part of the "Hanoi Hilton" prisoner of war compound, and one of their preferred museum rooms is one in which U.S. pilots were held and tortured. Despite recent government attempts to curtail it, sex (under the street name "boom-boom") still flourishes. [Tampa Tribune-Knight Ridder, 10-14-01]

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People Different From Us
Several Canadian tax-evasion defendants have recently resorted to a language called "In the Truth" (invented by American David Wynn Miller) when they defend themselves in court. However, only true believers can distinguish the language from gibberish (one example: "With the sovereign, hyphen, authority of the Andrew, hyphen, William, colon, Sereda (the defendant) is for the stating of the authority of the noun"). Miller said he created the language to replace the "flawed syntax" of English. So far, according to an October Canadian Press report, most judges' preferred response is to award the "In the Truth" speakers a government-paid mental examination, and Canadian Immigration's response has been to keep Miller out of the country. [Edmonton Sun-CP, 10-14-01]

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Thinning the Herd
William Stewart finally died of his injuries in November, three weeks after hanging himself in his jail cell, the latest tragedy to befall his Parma, Ohio, family. His wife, Joyce Stewart, died a month before William, allegedly murdered by him. William had been stopped on suspicion of DUI but then invited arrest by snapping gratuitously at the officer, "You can't get into my car without a warrant." The garbage bags in his back seat contained pieces of Joyce. Her son, Mark DiMarco, was serving 94 years for rape and murder before he hanged himself in his cell in 1999. Joyce had served time for obstructing justice in his case after having become sort of a house mother to Mark's gang of delinquents, and after Mark's death, Joyce treated Mark's bedroom as a shrine. [Cleveland Plain Dealer, 10-8-01, 10-7-01, 10-4-01; Akron Beacon Journal, 11-2-01]

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Also, in the Last Month ...
A 20-year-old female karate black-belt, after bragging that she could catch in her hand an arrow shot from a bow, failed, merely deflecting it into her eye, which she lost (Jersey City, N.J.). Life-imprisoned Oklahoma City bomber Terry Nichols (whom many people would like to see dead, anyway) threatened to starve himself if he didn't get a higher-fiber diet. Researchers reported that a woman undergoing in-vitro fertilization had also become pregnant the old-fashioned way, thus producing two fetuses (Palo Alto, Calif.). The 17-year-old winner of a high school Halloween costume contest was suspended for breaking his promise to retire the costume (a full-body-length vagina) (Ann Arbor, Mich.). [Jersey Journal, 10-29-01] [New York Times, 10-30-01] [New York Post-Human Reproduction (journal), 10-29-01] [Ann Arbor News, 11-1-01]

Thanks this week to Paul Music, Paul Blumstein, Adrian Foster, Jerry McCollom, Mike Rubesch, Roger Gulbransen, Leslie Goodman-Malamuth, Eliot Salant, Paolo Gasperini, Roger Strong, Paul Tucek, Joe Littrell and Steve Miller, and the News of the Weird Senior Advisors and Chief Correspondents.

(Send your Weird News to Chuck Shepherd, P.O. Box 18737, Tampa, Fla. 33679 or Newsweird@aol.com, or go to www.NewsoftheWeird.com/.)

COPYRIGHT 2001 CHUCK SHEPHERD

RDixon · 19-11-01, 08:26 PM

Sorta weird; funny too.

http://www.mirror-guardian.com/nov14...es/etbomb.html

Dawn · 19-11-01, 08:26 PM

I wondered when you'd get back to posting this Mikey

walktalker · 19-11-01, 09:07 PM

http://copyright.queen.wasarrested.com/F/hack/chicago/

Bad, bad Copyright Queen

mike4947 · 19-11-01, 09:15 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by walktalker
http://copyright.queen.wasarrested.com/F/hack/chicago/

Bad, bad Copyright Queen

Don't worry the cops take credit cards for bail

Copyright Queen · 19-11-01, 09:57 PM

Dawn and I were busted!! Don't worry, our next hack will be awesome.

Mike, we didn't need to post bail.

Quote:

A 20-year-old female karate black-belt, after bragging that she could catch in her hand an arrow shot from a bow, failed, merely deflecting it into her eye, which she lost (Jersey City, N.J.)

It never happens like that in the movies!!

19-11-01, 08:18 PM	#1
mike4947 I'd rather be sailing Join Date: Apr 2001 Posts: 1,648	This weeks news of the weird News of the WeirdTM (c) 1999-2001 , Chuck Shepherd. All rights reserved. LEAD STORIES Former CIA officer Victor Marchetti told London's Daily Telegraph in November that the Company had a project in the 1960s ("Acoustic Kitty") in which a cat had batteries and wires surgically installed, with an antenna in the tail, so that it could be placed close to enemy operatives and transmit eavesdropped conversations back to a monitoring station. The project was five years in development when the first Kitty was deployed, but it was immediately run over by a taxicab. [Daily Telegraph, 11-4-01] A couple of days after the problem was highlighted in a Reuters news story (but several weeks after it had been going on), the Pentagon decided to change the color of the food packages it was dropping in Afghanistan, from yellow to blue, so recipients would be less confused. For several weeks, it had been dropping yellow packages of food and yellow packages of cluster bombs, along with fliers that explained that the square yellow packages were food and the cylindrical yellow packages were bombs, and urging people to open the former but avoid the latter. [Reuters, 10-29-01; Associated Press, 11-2-01] In Contrast to Those Who Hold Grudges for Five Centuries: An October San Francisco Chronicle dispatch from Cape Town, South Africa, reported that the parents of Amy Biehl (who was murdered by a mob of South African black kids in a racially motivated attack in 1993) have come to grips with their tragedy to such an extent that they have established a foundation in Cape Town to help rescue kids in poverty and have hired their daughter's two principal killers to work for the foundation in order to rehabilitate their lives. [San Francisco Chronicle, 10-28-01] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Transsexuals in the Mainstream A judge rejected both the ex-wife's and the biological (from-the-womb) son's demands for the ashes of the late Patrick (formerly Pauline) Corn, and disposed of them according to the directions in Corn's will (Monticello, Ind., October). And former police captain Scott Cote said he would help prosecutors and testify about his estranged wife's worker-compensation fraud scheme but would only do so as Stacey Cote, his new identity (Miami, September). And Australia's Green party was represented in November elections in a Melbourne district by candidate Tony Briffa, 31, an open hermaphrodite who recently began living as a man. [Monticello Herald-Journal, 10-11-01] [Miami Herald, 9-26-01] [Associated Press, 10-18-01] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Latest Religious Messages Arson and Nakedness: The property-eschewing religious sect Doukhobours were in the news again recently. (The sect's breakaway Freedomites ritually burn property and ritually remove their clothes.) Mary Braun, 81, was convicted of setting fire to a college building in Nelson, British Columbia, in October. Her rap sheet for this type of thing is lengthy, and this episode appeared to be another of her revelations. She tried to attend court sessions nude, but staff members covered her with blankets. [Canoe-Canadian Press, 8-29-01; Reuters, 10-23-01] Israeli security agents scrambled to high alert in September over what they feared was a suicide parachuter from Jordan, landing near the airport in the town of Eilat, Israel. It turned out merely to be Rabbi Shimon Eizenbach carrying out a pre-Yom Kippur ritual of kapparot, floating down in an ultralite glider while holding a hen in one cage (to atone for women) and a rooster in another (for men). Security forces held their fire, and the town was duly blessed. [Jerusalem Post, 9-26-01] In August, following an Israeli helicopter raid on the offices of the radical organization Hamas, the High Islamic Council in Saudi Arabia decreed for the first time that females would be allowed to be suicide bombers. (Two days later, a 23-year-old mother of two was arrested with 15 pounds of explosives at Tel Aviv's central bus station.) [Straits Times-Sunday Times (London), 8-6-01] In August, a Yorba Linda, Calif., Catholic official told the Los Angeles Times that a recent $5.2 million pedophile-priest settlement included a requirement that the church begin to install confessional doors that have windows, to help protect parishioners from priests. Said the official, "Building a church that creates a safe and open environment will be very important to (us)." [Los Angeles Times, 8-22-01] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cultural Diversity In western Kenya near Lake Victoria, the Wanga faction of the Luhya tribe continue to practice "wife inheritance," in which a woman who becomes a widow is obliged to marry another family member (or risk acquiring a curse), a practice that opponents say is particularly bad in light of the region's high HIV-infection rate. According to a May Agence France-Presse dispatch, tradition provides that if a widow refuses to remarry, the family upon her death pays any available man to have sex with her corpse so that she can be posthumously "inherited" and her soul saved. [Bangkok Post-AFP, 5-6-01] According to an October Knight Ridder dispatch from Vietnam, a favorite trysting place for prostitutes and their customers is the museum that used to be part of the "Hanoi Hilton" prisoner of war compound, and one of their preferred museum rooms is one in which U.S. pilots were held and tortured. Despite recent government attempts to curtail it, sex (under the street name "boom-boom") still flourishes. [Tampa Tribune-Knight Ridder, 10-14-01] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- People Different From Us Several Canadian tax-evasion defendants have recently resorted to a language called "In the Truth" (invented by American David Wynn Miller) when they defend themselves in court. However, only true believers can distinguish the language from gibberish (one example: "With the sovereign, hyphen, authority of the Andrew, hyphen, William, colon, Sereda (the defendant) is for the stating of the authority of the noun"). Miller said he created the language to replace the "flawed syntax" of English. So far, according to an October Canadian Press report, most judges' preferred response is to award the "In the Truth" speakers a government-paid mental examination, and Canadian Immigration's response has been to keep Miller out of the country. [Edmonton Sun-CP, 10-14-01] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thinning the Herd William Stewart finally died of his injuries in November, three weeks after hanging himself in his jail cell, the latest tragedy to befall his Parma, Ohio, family. His wife, Joyce Stewart, died a month before William, allegedly murdered by him. William had been stopped on suspicion of DUI but then invited arrest by snapping gratuitously at the officer, "You can't get into my car without a warrant." The garbage bags in his back seat contained pieces of Joyce. Her son, Mark DiMarco, was serving 94 years for rape and murder before he hanged himself in his cell in 1999. Joyce had served time for obstructing justice in his case after having become sort of a house mother to Mark's gang of delinquents, and after Mark's death, Joyce treated Mark's bedroom as a shrine. [Cleveland Plain Dealer, 10-8-01, 10-7-01, 10-4-01; Akron Beacon Journal, 11-2-01] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Also, in the Last Month ... A 20-year-old female karate black-belt, after bragging that she could catch in her hand an arrow shot from a bow, failed, merely deflecting it into her eye, which she lost (Jersey City, N.J.). Life-imprisoned Oklahoma City bomber Terry Nichols (whom many people would like to see dead, anyway) threatened to starve himself if he didn't get a higher-fiber diet. Researchers reported that a woman undergoing in-vitro fertilization had also become pregnant the old-fashioned way, thus producing two fetuses (Palo Alto, Calif.). The 17-year-old winner of a high school Halloween costume contest was suspended for breaking his promise to retire the costume (a full-body-length vagina) (Ann Arbor, Mich.). [Jersey Journal, 10-29-01] [New York Times, 10-30-01] [New York Post-Human Reproduction (journal), 10-29-01] [Ann Arbor News, 11-1-01] Thanks this week to Paul Music, Paul Blumstein, Adrian Foster, Jerry McCollom, Mike Rubesch, Roger Gulbransen, Leslie Goodman-Malamuth, Eliot Salant, Paolo Gasperini, Roger Strong, Paul Tucek, Joe Littrell and Steve Miller, and the News of the Weird Senior Advisors and Chief Correspondents. (Send your Weird News to Chuck Shepherd, P.O. Box 18737, Tampa, Fla. 33679 or Newsweird@aol.com, or go to www.NewsoftheWeird.com/.) COPYRIGHT 2001 CHUCK SHEPHERD __________________

19-11-01, 08:26 PM	#2
RDixon Registered User Join Date: Mar 2001 Posts: 3,742	Sorta weird; funny too. http://www.mirror-guardian.com/nov14...es/etbomb.html __________________ Pay no attention to albed. We purposely trained him wrong, as a joke.

19-11-01, 08:26 PM	#3
Dawn R.I.P napho 1-31-16 Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Venus Posts: 16,723	I wondered when you'd get back to posting this Mikey __________________ I love you napho and I will weep forever..........

19-11-01, 09:07 PM	#4
walktalker The local newspaper man Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Montreal Posts: 2,036	http://copyright.queen.wasarrested.com/F/hack/chicago/ Bad, bad Copyright Queen __________________ This post was sponsored by Netcoco, who wants cookies, cookies, cookies and, you guessed it, more cookies

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