Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Greetings fellow Bizarros:

Talk about your bad day. 25-year-old John Knight was driving his Volvo station wagon down Church Street through San Francisco's Noe Valley neighborhood at about 10:30 in the morning when he came across a strange scene.

A heavyset woman stood wrapped in a blanket, surrounded by medical personnel.

Suddenly, the woman whipped the blanket off and threw it at the medics, revealing that she was completely naked, Knight said. Then she turned around and noticed Knight, still stopped and now shocked behind the wheel, about 50 feet away.

"She walks directly to me," he said. "She walks up the hood of my car and she begins stomping on my windshield, completely naked."

The woman, who Knight estimated to weigh about 250 pounds, cracked his windshield with the first stomp. She got a couple more in before plainclothes officers pulled her off and hand-cuffed her as she screamed, Knight said.

Apparently the woman had stripped on a commuter train earlier in the morning for no good reason, and it was pure coincidence that Knight pulled up to that intersection at that exact moment.

"They (the insurance company) didn't really know what to make of it." Knight said.

Bizarrely,
Lewis

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*-- Woman sues NYC over soda arrest --*
NEW YORK - A New York woman is suing the city for putting her in jail for five days after police searched her when she bought a soda from a corner store. Catherine Cyrus, 24, of Brooklyn, had just bought a Sprite from a bodega February 2012 when police surrounded her, asking to see her identification, the New York Post reported. Police searched her purchase and, finding only the soda, told her to leave the area. When she refused, the officers arrested her, the federal court lawsuit said. She was charged with disorderly conduct and obstructing governmental administration, and spent five days in jail before being released, the newspaper said. Judge ShawnDya Simpson dismissed the case when it came up for trial after an officer claimed Cyrus tried to strike one of them. Officers never charged Cyrus with assault and Simpson said the officer's story was "totally incredible."


*-- Librarian says she was fired for reporting sex incident --*
ESTANCIA, N.M. - A lawyer for a former assistant librarian in New Mexico said his client lost her job for reporting two city workers found having sex in the children's section. Joseph CampBell, attorney for former Estancia Library employee Jamie Kurz, said his client showed up for work in August and discovered two city employees -- the town's head librarian and a maintenance worker -- "engaged in sexual intercourse on the floor in the children's section," KRQE-TV, Albuquerque, reported Monday. The workers told Kurz to be quiet, but she reported the incident to the city library director and Estancia Mayor Sylvia Chavez, CampBell said. "The mayor subsequently talked to Jamie about it, told her that it wouldn't have any effect on her job," CampBell said. However, Kurz went on leave when the head librarian returned to work, claiming a hostile work environment, and was soon fired. An Oct. 10 letter from Chavez to Kurz said she was being fired for failing to return her key to the library while on leave. "Your refusal to turn over town property upon request and as required to ensure uninterrupted library services shows a lack of cooperation and willingness to work with supervisors," Chavez wrote. "This behavior constitutes insubordination and jeopardizes the Town's ability to serve its citizens." However, CampBell said Kurz believes her firing was tied to her refusal to keep quiet about the August incident. CampBell said he plans to file a claim with the town and a possible whistle-blower lawsuit could follow.


*-- READER COMMENTS --*
Here's a Halloween story: In Johnston county, North Carolina, which tries to challenge Florida for backwardness and wackiness, I handed out candy to a kid dressed in a blue military coat and cap while his dad stood beside him. "What are you?" I asked. "I'm a Yankee!" the kids said. I wanted to ask dad how that War of Northern Aggression was going, but his vacant stare suggested I shouldn't. -LC

Lewis, I once saw the number 666 come up in our Daily 3 drawing. The odds of that are a thousand to one. The even stranger thing was, this happened on a Friday the 13th. What do you suppose the odds of that are? -Chris
[To calculate that I'll have to take my socks and shoes off... and nobody wants that. Your guess is as good as mine.]

Drivers to avoid: female Chinese wearing a hat and driving a beige Volvo (although drop the gender and race and it still applies). Old Chinese cab drivers in Singapore - the uncles drive the often manual Comfort Cabs like they were automatics. I've also found that Chinese females can't dance unless it's Ballroom. -Steve
[I have no clue what's going on here.]

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