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Bizarre News - December 13, 2014
Greetings fellow Bizarros:I have a feeling this story is going to inspire the entry of a new phrase in the popular lexicon; 'Florida Roulette'.
A Largo, Florida man was hospitalized overnight after being shot just before midnight in what authorities said was a game between two men pointing loaded guns at each other.
Apparently there is not much to do in Largo after ten o'clock.
According to the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office, 23-year-old Tony Roe was rushed to the hospital after being shot in the chest.
Deputies responded to the home after Roe and 19-year-old Dylan Harvey engaged in a game in which they were playing with a loaded revolver by rolling the chamber then taking turns pointing the gun at each other.
At one point when Harvey had the gun, it fired, striking Roe.
The sheriff's office is calling the shooting accidental - for now. An investigation is ongoing.
Roe is expected to survive his injuries.
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Email Lewis* Tokyo restaurant bans couples on Christmas Eve *TOKYO (UPI) - A Tokyo restaurant announced couples will not be welcome at the eatery on Christmas Eve because the sight of them would make single customers feel lonely. The PiaPia restaurant posted a note in its window featuring a hand-drawn couple and a heart that have been crossed out with an explanation stating, "We will be refusing entry to all couples on December 24, with no exceptions!" The note says couples would serve as a reminder of loneliness for single patrons on Christmas Eve and romantic pairs "would cause severe emotional trauma to members of our staff" who have to work on the holiday. PiaPia worker Takashi Kyozuka said the sign was posted because eatery staff don't want customers to "feel sad that they are by themselves." "To start with, someone said we should ban couples as a bit of a joke, but then we realized that it's true," he told The Telegraph. "If you are single on Christmas Eve, then it's easy to get down."
*-- Doctors: Parasitic worm spent 4 years in man's foot --*CANBERRA, Australia (UPI) - Doctors in Australia said a parasitic worm removed from a man's foot was likely inside his body for at least four years. Dr. Jonathan Darby of St. Vincent's Hospital said the man, who moved to Melbourne from Sudan about four years ago, came into the hospital with a swollen foot he said had been causing him pain for about a year. Darby said an X-ray discovered there were two segments of Dracunculiasis medinensis, or "guinea worm," in his ankle and foot. Doctors writing in the journal Pathology said the worm, which can grow to more than three feet in length, likely died inside the man's foot and split into pieces. The doctors said the man was likely infected before he left Sudan. The guinea worm infects humans through the water they drink and borrows through the body to exit through the foot, doctors said. The exit often creates a burning sensation that leads patients to submerge the affected foot in water, allowing the worm to infect the water with its larvae. "That whole process can take years. It can sit inside the human body alive for years or die, degenerate, and then cause problems in the area like it did for our patient," Darby told Fairfax Media. The man made a full recovery once the worm was surgically removed, doctors said.
*-- READER COMMENTS --*Since beer won't be served how about using a more traditional drink; Thunderbird wine.
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That may very well be what Jesus turned the water into at the wedding in Cana. You don't know.]
Hi Lewis, As if the bad food and worse service were not enough to keep me out of TGI Fridays. DRONES? Someone flies one of those things near me is going to need a new one, because I am going to start carrying a two by four or other defensive weaponry against the little bastards. If the owner or operator complains, I will try a new legal precedent and plead, "Justifiable assault and battery." Though the old Southern classic, "He needed killin" will be a backup. --Lynda-Marie
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I'm sure they'll let you carry a 3-foot 2-by-4 into T.G.I. Fridays.]
Are you in the picture, back row, towards the center of the green shirt? He's handsome. But sexy is a state of mind and from reading your column all these years, yeah, I think you're sexy. Of course it's only your wife's opinion that counts.
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I am in the staff picture, but I refuse to say which one is me. Better to leave a little mystery.]
"There is a risk involved -- anything flying, there is risk." Frances Karkosak, a spokeswoman for the restaurant chain - so I suppose when the bullshit flies you need to duck as there is risk! -Mary Allan
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If that were true I'd spend most of my time around this office with my head under my desk.]
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