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Greetings fellow Bizarros:
Typically, I shy
away from stories involving death. It is improper, impolite, disrespectful
and just plain creepy. But then there are stories like this...
It seems a 19-year-old man plunged to his death after he crashed through a
window at an arena during a concert in Pittsburgh, police said. Tragic.
I know what you're thinking; the arena was so packed that the young man was
helplessly squashed against
the window until the pressure shattered the glass and he fell to his death.
Or maybe he leaned or
pressed against it casually and a cracked pane or shoddy installation made
the window
pop out, precipitating him 30 feet to the pavement below.
Nope. Reports say the man, Joseph K., got down in a football stance, yelled
"hike," and then charged the inch-thick double-paned safety window.
He plunged to "a sloped hillside bordering a cement walkway," according to
the local paper.
Police Lt. Daniel Herrmann said Joseph K. was reportedly, "a little out of
it." However toxicology reports are pending.
Well, when you are "a little out of it" and your friends are egging you on,
a person tends to do stupid things, like the teenager from a few weeks ago
who leapt off the Golden Gate Bridge after his friends dared him.
Maybe if Joseph K. had been at the concert with his friends he might still
be alive, but that night he was there with his father who, according to the
story, survived the evening.
Bizarrely,
Lewis
P.S. In case you haven't noticed, we have a new format for Bizarre News which
I hope you like. Please drop me a note and let me know what you think! lewis@gophercentral.com
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April 15 is Rubber Eraser Day
April 16 is National Stress Awareness Day and National
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April 17 is National Cheeseball Day
April 18 is International Jugglers Day
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3 daughters, 3 births, 3 days ---
ST.
CLOUD, Minn. - St. Cloud, Minn., grandparents Mike
and Joan Benda welcomed three new granddaughters within three days of each
other this month, family members said. Their oldest daughter, Katie Larson,
30, gave birth to MaKenna March 14 in Minneapolis where she lives with
husband Andrew and daughter Alexa, 1. Taylor Orth was born March 15 to their
middle daughter Michele Orth, 29, in Otsego, Minn., where she lives with
husband, Jesse, and son Cameron, 2. Melissa Valen, 29, Michele's identical
twin, gave birth to Lyla March 16. They live in Albert-ville, Minn., with
husband Andrew and two children Faith, 7, and Jakob, 2. The excitement of
the triple births
started to build as each daughter announced due dates
days apart and then said all the babies would be girls. Coincidences
multiplied as the granddaughters arrived in their mothers' birth order. The
granddaughters even fall in order for height and weight. "This is a wild
family," Faith Valen told the St. Cloud Times as she watched her toddler
cousins playing and the new arrivals being rocked to sleep in the arms of
her grandparents.
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Georgia house infested with 20,000 bats ---
TIFTON,
Ga. - An empty home in Georgia is infested with as many as 20,000 bats and
officials say they've declared it unfit for human habitation until the bats
are cleared. "The interior and exterior walls are just full of guano,"
Melissa Skidmore of Tru Tech, an animal removal service, said of the home in
Tifton, Ga. "Some of it is old and has turned to dust and it is just a
cocktail of pathogens. People going in will need proper equipment to cover
their skin, clothes and noses. We are talking about between
10,000 and 20,000 bats," Skidmore told The Tifton Gazette Monday. The
infestation of Mexican free-tailed bats was one of the worse she had ever
seen, she said. A local code enforcement officer said he had no choice but
to post the declaration when he saw several live bats upstairs and spotted
several dead bats on the bottom floor of the house. Local real estate agent
Julie Smith said the house is in foreclosure with an agency that has a buyer
interested in purchasing the house. "The goal is for everyone to work
together so that a family can live here safely," Smith said.
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COMMENTS <<<<<<<<<
As a "never learned to drive" 65-year-old male (no particular reason - just
never learned) I agree with all you say about the "mileage tax" BUT
something needs to be done to reduce all the stupid driving. How many people
get in their car to drive 30 or 45 seconds to the corner store? This kind of
stupidity must end. I am sorry but you abuse your cars - and our air. -Tim
[I agree with you. I am a big advocate of walking. I used to bicycle a
lot too, but I got a little too fat to balance myself on a bicycle anymore.
Maybe this summer I will dig it out of the garage and take it up again. It's
a hell of a lot cheaper than driving, anyway!]
I just want to say, I love your new format. Clean, crisp and easy to read.
-Hazel
[Thanks. That's why we did it.]
Nice new layout. I look forward to this. It always breaks up the Monotony.
Thanks! -Rich PS: I Miss the Bizarre Pic of the day though.
[Well, now that we are doing html we might be able to bring that back.
Thanks for the suggestion.]
I like the new format, but it's just a wee bit too wide for my screen and I
have to scroll from left to right and back to read it. Otherwise, ^5!
[The few complaints I have received have been about that very thing.
I'll have to ask our programmer if there is a solution to that.]
Lewis, love the new format. So much easier to read. And thanks for putting
John in his place. These stereotypical generalizations about anyone just put
me in a rage! I feel like jumping on my menstrual cycle and running his ass
over! Thank God I'M not emotional! -Patty
[Yeah, thank God.]
Lewis, New format is great. Easier on these aging peepers. If the criminal
court can't try for the same crime twice, how is it that our government can
add layer upon layer of taxes for the same thing? Seems to me that taxing
car milage IS the same as a gasoline tax! If we had more efficient mass
transit, maybe cars wouldn't be so necessary here. Jim in CT
[It seems to me that cars are part of American culture. It's almost a rite
of passage for a teenager to get his first beater. But you are right that a
move away from gas-guzzlers is inevitable, whether it is mass transit or
alternative fuel vehicles.]
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