Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Greetings fellow Bizarros:

When I first started looking at the news this morning I was going to tell you about a couple who are planning to deliver their baby in a dolphin tank (with a live dolphin in it) in Hawaii, but then I saw a story about how Chinese emergency workers delivered a baby from a toilet drain! That's got dolphin-assisted birth beat by a mile.

Of course, the toilet drain birth wasn't planned. In fact, police said they are treating the case as an attempted homicide.

Really, it is a tragedy and a miracle all-in-one. The infant was heard crying in a section of the pipe directly beneath a toilet in a residential building in the wealthy coastal province of Zhejiang.

Rescuers had to saw off a section of pipe along a ceiling, then rushed that section of pipe to a hospital where fire-fighters and medics alternately used pliers and saws to rip apart the pipe and free the baby.

The little boy was in critical condition, but has since
been stabilized.

While the young, single mother has been found and brought to the hospital, no motive has yet been released for why she would abandon the baby. There is a good chance she will not keep the child, as several offers to adopt it have already been expressed...not to mention that she tried to flush it down a toilet in the first place.

In Chinese tradition the infant has been given the affectionate moniker Baby No. 59.

Bizarrely,
Lewis

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*-- N.Y. man files 122 federal tax returns in dead people's names --*
BUFFALO, N.Y. - A 42-year-old New York state man has admitted trying to scam the Internal Revenue Service out of $217,520 in refunds he sought in the names of 122 dead people. The U.S. attorney's office said in a release John M. Berry Jr. of Dunkirk, pleaded guilty Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Buffalo to making a false claim against the United States. The charge carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison, a fine of $250,000 or both. Assistant U.S. Attorney Aaron J. Mango, who is handling the case, said between Sept. 3, 2008, and March 25, 2009, Berry filed 122 false income tax returns for the tax years 2007 and 2008 with the IRS. During that time, Berry obtained the personal and identifying information for 122 recently deceased individuals and then used that information to file federal tax returns. The defendant created fraudulent income and withholding information for the dead taxpayers and filed the returns electronically, Mango said. The 122 tax returns sought refunds totaling $217,520 from the IRS, of which the defendant received $92,462.12. The refunds were deposited directly into Berry's bank account, Mango said. "This case should serve as a warning that our office, working with our law enforcement partners, will not tolerate attempts to either steal the identities of individuals, or the money of the taxpayers of this country," U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. "That this defendant would rob the identities of deceased individuals is concerning, and could have brought additional grief and pain for their loved ones." Sentencing is scheduled for Aug. 26.


*-- Teen mugger demands $1 bills from victims --*
NEW YORK - New York police said they have arrested a pint-sized 15-year-old who younger boys said mugged them, demanding $1 bills. The suspect allegedly approached younger boys in the Carroll Gardens section of Brooklyn and asked for $1. If the boys refused, the teen would brandish a razor blade to demand a dollar be handed over, the New York Post reported Saturday. Police said most of the alleged attempted muggings were unsuccessful. The teen allegedly made off with $12 in one incident, while a boy turned over his wallet in another. The suspect was apprehended at the Carroll Street subway station and the victims identified him at the police station.


*-- READER COMMENTS --*
Unless you tell them to put it in the door pocket or glove box, 90 percent of the people that buy this tool will put in their trunk.
[Which is why those people need to buy two.]

Makes one wonder if those knives were 'legal' and registered and background checks were properly done? -corky

Man jumps out of car to avoid wife: just 2 days ago, was having this discussion with some friends, I don't know why women are like that with their husbands/boyfriend- my husband has threatened on several occasions to get down and make me drive!! LOL
[Get down from what? A tractor?]

Re the Wizard of Oz teacher - we need teachers like him around the whole world! Those students learned so much from his exercise: To appreciate literature and see it applied to real life, to understand the court system and giving others a chance to put forward their arguments, to organize a major undertaking, to understand why people do what they do (a bit of psychology). Just WOW! -Cecille
[And after all of that they still came up with the wrong verdict.]

You do realize "Wizard Of Oz" was the original chick flick? It was about 2 women fighting over a pair of shoes. --R.S.

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