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mike4947 · 26-08-01, 03:47 PM

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News of the Weird (.707)

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Curt Storey, 62, who lives near Pittsburgh, Pa., filed a wrongful-discharge lawsuit in August against Burns International Security Services, claiming he was fired from his job because he refused supervisors' demands that he cleanse his lunchbox and pickup truck of Confederate flag decals, orders that he calls illegal national-origin discrimination. Storey claims he is a "Confederate Southern American," even though he is a lifelong Pennsylvanian and even though courts have not recognized CSA as a protected class under anti-discrimination law. [Observer-Reporter (Washington, Pa.), 8-13-01]

Paul Morgan of Biloxi, Miss., has been busy the last few weeks lining up Web site viewers, at $20 each, to watch him slice off both his feet on Oct. 31 with a homemade guillotine. Morgan's feet are nonfunctional because of an automobile accident, and he wants hydraulically operated prostheses to make him more mobile, but this is the only way he knows to raise the $200,000 to buy them. Although traffic on CutOffMyFeet.com is heavy, as of mid-August, Morgan had signed up only 10 viewers. [ABC News, 8-14-01]

In August, Naples (Fla.) City Councilman Fred Tarrant demanded that local artist Ted Lay's "Famous Tongue Mona Al Monica" painting (side-by-side impressions of Mona Lisa, Albert Einstein, and Monica Lewinsky sticking their tongues out) be removed from its place at a Naples municipal art center because he thinks Lewinsky's "tongue" too much resembles a penis (which Lay denies). According to a Naples Daily News report, Tarrant is in fact blind but said various advisers have assured him that the tongue is a penis. [Naples Daily News, 8-11-01]

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Feature: Good Ol' Boys Out of Control
In May in Stroudsburg, Pa., Noah Berryman, 19, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter; hours after earning his driver's license, Berryman was trying to get his car airborne on a hill (he launched 63 feet on the fourth attempt) when he hit a tree, killing the two friends riding with him. And in February, a 52-year-old man shot a 21-year-old man to death on I-75 in Tennessee as the men hauled 30 fighting roosters to a cockfight in Kentucky; the older man was angry that the younger man kept kicking the back of his seat. And in June, as Knox County (Tenn.) sheriff's deputies surrounded an auto parts store looking for suspect Charles "Cracker" Dunn, his brother, Melvin "Squirt" Dunn Jr., jumped on cars, waved his arms and defiantly challenged them, before they stormed the store and arrested him (but not Cracker, who wasn't there). [Associated Press, 5-25-01] [Knoxville News-Sentinel, 2-18-01] [Knoxville News-Sentinel, 7-2-01]

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Unclear on the Concept

In July, according to police, an unidentified man stole an ax from a Home Depot in Oklahoma City and used it menacingly to rob a clerk and shortly thereafter did the same at two other stores, including a Wal-Mart. On interviewing witnesses, police learned that a Wal-Mart door greeter had seen the man enter carrying the ax, but his only impulse was to make sure that he did his job and placed a sticker on the ax so that when the man later tried to exit the store, he wouldn't be charged for it. [Daily Oklahoman, 7-5-01]

In May, a court in Edmonton, Alberta, sentenced William Piggott, 55, to 18 months' house arrest for three 1999 offenses in which prostitutes had turned him in for talking too dirty. According to court records, Piggott had merely asked the women if they would have sex with dogs. [Edmonton Journal, 5-19-01]

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The Litigious Society

In May, several months after the Escondido, Calif., library's resident cat attacked Richard R. Espinosa's 50-pound Labrador-mix assistance dog, Espinosa filed a $1.5 million claim against the city, alleging that he was in bad shape because of the dog's injuries. According to the legal papers, Espinosa suffers "significant lasting, extreme and severe mental anguish and emotional distress including, but not limited to, terror, humiliation, shame, embarrassment, mortification, chagrin, depression, panic, anxiety, flashbacks, nightmares, loss of sleep (and) loss of full enjoyment of life as well as other physical and mental afflictions of pain (and) suffering." [San Diego Union-Tribune, 5-5-01]

In June, Mary Lee Sowder filed a lawsuit in Roanoke, Va., against the local PetsMart store for $100,000 for injuries to her knee that she suffered when she slipped and fell on "dog slobber," which was allegedly drooled upon the floor by the manager's own huge dog (of unspecified breed). [Roanoke Times, 6-19-01]

Kevin Mackle died at age 21 in 1998 when a Coke machine he was rocking in a dorm at Bishop's University in Lennoxville, Quebec, fell on him. In July 2001, Mr. Mackle's family filed a lawsuit for about $660,000 (U.S.) for wrongful death against the machine's manufacturer and distributor, and Coca-Cola, and the university. The lawsuit claims that each defendant was negligent in not posting signs on the machine that college students should resist the temptation to rock it. According to the coroner's report, the late Mr. Mackle was well-known by his friends for securing free sodas by rocking the machine and was once again engaged in his craft when the fatal accident occurred. [National Post, 7-11-01]

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People Different From Us
According to police reports in the Daily Independent (Ashland, Ky.) in June, Clark Schneeberger, 44, heard that his father-in-law, Richard J. Kouns, was angry that his daughter and Schneeberger had fought several days before and was on his way over to defend his daughter's honor. Schneeberger prepared for the interfamily visit by strapping on body armor and equipping himself with a bayonet and brass knuckles. Kouns arrived swinging, and the two battled until Schneeberger subdued Kouns by biting off part of his nose (an attack that earned Schneeberger a grand jury indictment several days later). [Daily Independent, 6-15-01]

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Undignified Deaths
A 26-year-old SWAT police officer in Dallas was accidentally shot to death by a colleague in June as the two men showed trainees how to react to a gunman in a public place. And a 14-year-old girl died when the all-terrain vehicle in which she was riding smashed into a tractor-trailer; she was in the vehicle because she was visiting her father's workplace as part of Take Our Kids to Work Day (Welland, Ontario, November 2000, and for which a lawsuit was filed in May 2001). And the Alcoholics Anonymous chapter in Milwaukee still does not know who the man was who collapsed and died during a meeting on May 23 (because those attending meetings usually do so anonymously). [Boston Globe-Reuters, 6-9-01] [National Post, 5-25-01] [St. Louis Post-Dispatch-AP, 6-3-01]

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Tyranny of the Minority of One
In July, the University of South Florida agreed to pay $25,000 to a former art student to settle her 1999 lawsuit claiming that she felt sexually harassed by a class-discussion photograph of a naked white woman clinching a naked black man, despite the fact that that day's topic was controversial art and that all 250 students in the class had been warned of the nature of the class and advised they would not be penalized for missing it. (Shortly after the class, the woman's father complained, and the graduate assistant who supplied the photograph was transferred, which ignited a public protest by all the rest of the students in the class.) [St. Petersburg Times, 7-4-01]

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26-08-01, 04:48 PM

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Finally, if you are one of those morons who takes News of the Weird text, pastes it onto your own work (after deleting the name News of the Weird and my copyright notice), and sends it to people as if you or someone else created it, may you rot in hell but before that, may you be tied face up somewhere on an African plain and may every animal on the continent sidle up to you and drag his ass over your face.

Good thing you posted the link!

Dawn · 26-08-01, 04:54 PM

I used to post news from this site, but since Mikey stole my idea, he is committed to posting it forever... including the link.

mike4947 · 26-08-01, 05:33 PM

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Finally, if you are one of those morons who takes News of the Weird text, pastes it onto your own work (after deleting the name News of the Weird and my copyright notice), and sends it to people as if you or someone else created it, may you rot in hell but before that, may you be tied face up somewhere on an African plain and may every animal on the continent sidle up to you and drag his ass over your face.
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See what I saved you from Dawnie

Dawn · 26-08-01, 05:59 PM

Yes Mikey, I see that.

27-08-01, 12:55 PM

"Finally, if you are one of those morons who takes News of the Weird text, pastes it onto your own work (after deleting the name News of the Weird and my copyright notice), and sends it to people as if you or someone else created it, may you rot in hell but before that, may you be tied face up somewhere on an African plain and may every animal on the continent sidle up to you and drag his ass over your face." -NOTW.

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so what, you can scan clips from other sources (there's no original work and i don't see any reporters' names in your posts), but you get a little bent when someone turns it around? if that's not all you claim a copyright?! now that's what i call weird!

there's a job waiting for you at the riaa.

- js.

fblaguy · 27-08-01, 04:17 PM

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In July, according to police, an unidentified man stole an ax from a Home Depot in Oklahoma City and used it menacingly to rob a clerk and shortly thereafter did the same at two other stores, including a Wal-Mart. On interviewing witnesses, police learned that a Wal-Mart door greeter had seen the man enter carrying the ax, but his only impulse was to make sure that he did his job and placed a sticker on the ax so that when the man later tried to exit the store, he wouldn't be charged for it. [Daily Oklahoman, 7-5-01]

That doesnt make sense, i have never heard of that policy. Of course if the man claimed he was retunrning the ax to wal-mart, then the greeter would have put the pink return sticker on it

mike4947 · 27-08-01, 06:36 PM

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Originally posted by fblaguy

That doesnt make sense, i have never heard of that policy. Of course if the man claimed he was retunrning the ax to wal-mart, then the greeter would have put the pink return sticker on it

Flba, a lot of stores will "sticker" items you bring into the store, or
direct you to the return/customer service desk where you they will hold your items for you until you cash out or leave the store.

27-08-01, 06:55 PM

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Originally posted by fblaguy

That doesnt make sense, i have never heard of that policy. Of course if the man claimed he was retunrning the ax to wal-mart, then the greeter would have put the pink return sticker on it

the greeter was just trying to be helpfull, sheez. the guy had been in the day before enquiring about the perfect way to split open someones' head w/an ax. he was told they couldn't possibly answer his question except in the most general terms w/out knowing the type of ax, its' handle, sharpness and balancing point. if he wanted more specifics, he'd just have to bring it in.

the greeter knew all that from the morning managers' meeting. it's just another way home depot does more for the customer.

- js.

mike4947 · 27-08-01, 07:02 PM

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Originally posted by JackSpratts

the greeter was just trying to be helpfull, sheez. the guy had been in the day before enquiring about the perfect way to split open someones' head w/an ax. he was told they couldn't possibly answer his question except in the most general terms w/out knowing the type of ax, its' handle, sharpness and balancing point. if he wanted more specifics, he'd just have to bring it in.

the greeter knew all that from the morning managers' meeting. it's just another way home depot does more for the customer.

- js.

Wrong thread Jack, this is the Wal-Mart thread

In WalMart they carry the axe around for you till you need it.

27-08-01, 07:45 PM

Well, I used to carry an axe around imbedded in my head , and nobody tried to sticker it at Wal-Mart or Home Depot.

mike4947 · 27-08-01, 07:49 PM

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Originally posted by McT-Bone
Well, I used to carry an axe around imbedded in my head , and nobody tried to sticker it at Wal-Mart or Home Depot.

Well it's you own fault for not going to customer disservice and asking for a sticker. Walmart even has smilie stickers on hand just in case Dawnie ever shows up.

27-08-01, 09:55 PM

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Originally posted by mike4947

Wrong thread Jack, this is the Wal-Mart thread In WalMart they carry the axe around for you till you need it.

Parallel universe

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- js.

26-08-01, 03:47 PM	#1
mike4947 I'd rather be sailing Join Date: Apr 2001 Posts: 1,648	News of the Weird http://www.newsoftheweird.com/ News of the Weird (.707) LEAD STORIES Curt Storey, 62, who lives near Pittsburgh, Pa., filed a wrongful-discharge lawsuit in August against Burns International Security Services, claiming he was fired from his job because he refused supervisors' demands that he cleanse his lunchbox and pickup truck of Confederate flag decals, orders that he calls illegal national-origin discrimination. Storey claims he is a "Confederate Southern American," even though he is a lifelong Pennsylvanian and even though courts have not recognized CSA as a protected class under anti-discrimination law. [Observer-Reporter (Washington, Pa.), 8-13-01] Paul Morgan of Biloxi, Miss., has been busy the last few weeks lining up Web site viewers, at $20 each, to watch him slice off both his feet on Oct. 31 with a homemade guillotine. Morgan's feet are nonfunctional because of an automobile accident, and he wants hydraulically operated prostheses to make him more mobile, but this is the only way he knows to raise the $200,000 to buy them. Although traffic on CutOffMyFeet.com is heavy, as of mid-August, Morgan had signed up only 10 viewers. [ABC News, 8-14-01] In August, Naples (Fla.) City Councilman Fred Tarrant demanded that local artist Ted Lay's "Famous Tongue Mona Al Monica" painting (side-by-side impressions of Mona Lisa, Albert Einstein, and Monica Lewinsky sticking their tongues out) be removed from its place at a Naples municipal art center because he thinks Lewinsky's "tongue" too much resembles a penis (which Lay denies). According to a Naples Daily News report, Tarrant is in fact blind but said various advisers have assured him that the tongue is a penis. [Naples Daily News, 8-11-01] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Feature: Good Ol' Boys Out of Control In May in Stroudsburg, Pa., Noah Berryman, 19, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter; hours after earning his driver's license, Berryman was trying to get his car airborne on a hill (he launched 63 feet on the fourth attempt) when he hit a tree, killing the two friends riding with him. And in February, a 52-year-old man shot a 21-year-old man to death on I-75 in Tennessee as the men hauled 30 fighting roosters to a cockfight in Kentucky; the older man was angry that the younger man kept kicking the back of his seat. And in June, as Knox County (Tenn.) sheriff's deputies surrounded an auto parts store looking for suspect Charles "Cracker" Dunn, his brother, Melvin "Squirt" Dunn Jr., jumped on cars, waved his arms and defiantly challenged them, before they stormed the store and arrested him (but not Cracker, who wasn't there). [Associated Press, 5-25-01] [Knoxville News-Sentinel, 2-18-01] [Knoxville News-Sentinel, 7-2-01] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unclear on the Concept In July, according to police, an unidentified man stole an ax from a Home Depot in Oklahoma City and used it menacingly to rob a clerk and shortly thereafter did the same at two other stores, including a Wal-Mart. On interviewing witnesses, police learned that a Wal-Mart door greeter had seen the man enter carrying the ax, but his only impulse was to make sure that he did his job and placed a sticker on the ax so that when the man later tried to exit the store, he wouldn't be charged for it. [Daily Oklahoman, 7-5-01] In May, a court in Edmonton, Alberta, sentenced William Piggott, 55, to 18 months' house arrest for three 1999 offenses in which prostitutes had turned him in for talking too dirty. According to court records, Piggott had merely asked the women if they would have sex with dogs. [Edmonton Journal, 5-19-01] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Litigious Society In May, several months after the Escondido, Calif., library's resident cat attacked Richard R. Espinosa's 50-pound Labrador-mix assistance dog, Espinosa filed a $1.5 million claim against the city, alleging that he was in bad shape because of the dog's injuries. According to the legal papers, Espinosa suffers "significant lasting, extreme and severe mental anguish and emotional distress including, but not limited to, terror, humiliation, shame, embarrassment, mortification, chagrin, depression, panic, anxiety, flashbacks, nightmares, loss of sleep (and) loss of full enjoyment of life as well as other physical and mental afflictions of pain (and) suffering." [San Diego Union-Tribune, 5-5-01] In June, Mary Lee Sowder filed a lawsuit in Roanoke, Va., against the local PetsMart store for $100,000 for injuries to her knee that she suffered when she slipped and fell on "dog slobber," which was allegedly drooled upon the floor by the manager's own huge dog (of unspecified breed). [Roanoke Times, 6-19-01] Kevin Mackle died at age 21 in 1998 when a Coke machine he was rocking in a dorm at Bishop's University in Lennoxville, Quebec, fell on him. In July 2001, Mr. Mackle's family filed a lawsuit for about $660,000 (U.S.) for wrongful death against the machine's manufacturer and distributor, and Coca-Cola, and the university. The lawsuit claims that each defendant was negligent in not posting signs on the machine that college students should resist the temptation to rock it. According to the coroner's report, the late Mr. Mackle was well-known by his friends for securing free sodas by rocking the machine and was once again engaged in his craft when the fatal accident occurred. [National Post, 7-11-01] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- People Different From Us According to police reports in the Daily Independent (Ashland, Ky.) in June, Clark Schneeberger, 44, heard that his father-in-law, Richard J. Kouns, was angry that his daughter and Schneeberger had fought several days before and was on his way over to defend his daughter's honor. Schneeberger prepared for the interfamily visit by strapping on body armor and equipping himself with a bayonet and brass knuckles. Kouns arrived swinging, and the two battled until Schneeberger subdued Kouns by biting off part of his nose (an attack that earned Schneeberger a grand jury indictment several days later). [Daily Independent, 6-15-01] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Undignified Deaths A 26-year-old SWAT police officer in Dallas was accidentally shot to death by a colleague in June as the two men showed trainees how to react to a gunman in a public place. And a 14-year-old girl died when the all-terrain vehicle in which she was riding smashed into a tractor-trailer; she was in the vehicle because she was visiting her father's workplace as part of Take Our Kids to Work Day (Welland, Ontario, November 2000, and for which a lawsuit was filed in May 2001). And the Alcoholics Anonymous chapter in Milwaukee still does not know who the man was who collapsed and died during a meeting on May 23 (because those attending meetings usually do so anonymously). [Boston Globe-Reuters, 6-9-01] [National Post, 5-25-01] [St. Louis Post-Dispatch-AP, 6-3-01] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tyranny of the Minority of One In July, the University of South Florida agreed to pay $25,000 to a former art student to settle her 1999 lawsuit claiming that she felt sexually harassed by a class-discussion photograph of a naked white woman clinching a naked black man, despite the fact that that day's topic was controversial art and that all 250 students in the class had been warned of the nature of the class and advised they would not be penalized for missing it. (Shortly after the class, the woman's father complained, and the graduate assistant who supplied the photograph was transferred, which ignited a public protest by all the rest of the students in the class.) [St. Petersburg Times, 7-4-01] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- __________________

26-08-01, 04:54 PM	#3
Dawn R.I.P napho 1-31-16 Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Venus Posts: 16,723	I used to post news from this site, but since Mikey stole my idea, he is committed to posting it forever... including the link. __________________ I love you napho and I will weep forever..........

26-08-01, 05:33 PM	#4
mike4947 I'd rather be sailing Join Date: Apr 2001 Posts: 1,648	quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Finally, if you are one of those morons who takes News of the Weird text, pastes it onto your own work (after deleting the name News of the Weird and my copyright notice), and sends it to people as if you or someone else created it, may you rot in hell but before that, may you be tied face up somewhere on an African plain and may every animal on the continent sidle up to you and drag his ass over your face. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- See what I saved you from Dawnie __________________

26-08-01, 05:59 PM	#5
Dawn R.I.P napho 1-31-16 Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Venus Posts: 16,723	Yes Mikey, I see that. __________________ I love you napho and I will weep forever..........

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27-08-01, 12:55 PM	#6
JackSpratts Posts: n/a	"Finally, if you are one of those morons who takes News of the Weird text, pastes it onto your own work (after deleting the name News of the Weird and my copyright notice), and sends it to people as if you or someone else created it, may you rot in hell but before that, may you be tied face up somewhere on an African plain and may every animal on the continent sidle up to you and drag his ass over your face." -NOTW. ____________________________________________________________ so what, you can scan clips from other sources (there's no original work and i don't see any reporters' names in your posts), but you get a little bent when someone turns it around? if that's not all you claim a copyright?! now that's what i call weird! there's a job waiting for you at the riaa. - js.

27-08-01, 07:45 PM	#11
McT-Bone Posts: n/a	Well, I used to carry an axe around imbedded in my head , and nobody tried to sticker it at Wal-Mart or Home Depot.