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Bizarre News - June 18, 2014
Greetings fellow Bizarros:A teen in India is being worshiped because of his seven-inch tail. It wouldn't be the first time a guy has been worshiped because of his "tail", but what makes this story bizarre is that his tail is actually growing out of his back!
Locals have hailed the wheelchair-bound 13-year-old as an incarnation of the Hindu monkey god Hanuman - and refer to him as Balaji. His home was converted into a temple where worshipers gather to receive his blessings and touch his tail.
"A lot of people's wishes come true," says his grandfather, who lives with the boy. According to one woman, she was in a coma until family members asked Balaji to pray for her, and when he did, she came out of her coma.
Balaji's health has been deteriorating, and it is unclear if the tail has anything to do with it, but family members are hoping it makes a difference.
"Doctors may remove my tail but people will continue to have an unshakable faith in me," the boy said.
If it weren't a stipulation that the tail has to be in the back, I could move to India and become one hell of a god.
Bizarrely,
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Email Lewis*-- Woman goes in to have ovaries removed, goes home with a baby --*PAPATOETOE, New Zealand (UPI) - A 25-year-old New Zealand woman in the hospital to have her ovaries removed due to pain and cramps was instead found to be pregnant. Rebecca Oldham had already been put under anesthesia in November when surgeons discovered she was 32 weeks pregnant with a 9-pound baby. "I was facing not being able to have any more children because they thought there were problems with my ovaries and all of a sudden we had a son," she said, adding that she and husband James Tipene have a 20-month-old daughter, Hayley. Doctors woke Oldham up from anesthesia to tell her they would perform a caesarian section to deliver her baby instead of remove her ovaries. "I am so glad they woke me and told me I was going to have another baby," she said. "Even though it was short notice it was better than waking up and being handed a baby." Oldham told the New Zealand Herald she had had blood tests and other tests after she started complaining of pain in her abdomen, but doctors never discovered her pregnancy. Oldham and Tipene named the surprise baby James. One Serbian study suggests up to one in 7,225 women don't realize they're pregnant until delivery.
*-- Man ticketed for warning Ohio drivers about sobriety checkpoint --*PARMA, Ohio (UPI) - "Check point ahead! Turn now!" That's the message that was written on a sign that Doug Odolecki was holding up while standing on an Ohio street corner on Friday night. The final two words of that sign earned Odolecki a ticket and a court date because they were allegedly obstructing official police business. Odolecki was warning drivers in Parma about the upcoming drunken-driving checkpoint for about an hour before Police Lt. Brian McCann asked him to remove the last two words from the sign. When Odolecki refused, he was given a ticket by officer James Manzo. Odolecki told Cleveland.com that McCann and Manzo "tried to be a civil as they could knowing they were violating someone's rights." Attorney John Gold is representing Odolecki pro bono, because he supports "the police accountability activist movement." "The problem here is not the sign in general. It's the part of the sign that instructed drivers to turn that the officers had an issue with," Gold said. "But I think regardless it's protected speech under the First Amendment."
*-- READER COMMENTS --*In the reader comments of the most recent issue, you posted that "Now, Lewis, you make your living using the English language, and by now, should know the difference between bad and badly as used as an adjective and adverb. You remember, adverbs modify active verbs..." The verb being modified was 'feel'. Wouldn't you say that 'feel' is more of a passive verb than an active one? Just my $0.02...
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How active the feel is depends on who is being felt.]
Thanks, Lewis, I'll never eat creamy salad dressing again.
Hey Lewis! It sounds to me like that Florida man was a victim of entrapment. After all it sounds like the undercover cop approached him, asking for food in exchange for sex. Alonzo Liverman should've fought this instead of pleading no contest. Generally when undercover cops pose as prostitutes in police stings, they wait for the "johns" to make the first move. Otherwise it's entrapment. If the policewoman offered him sex for food before he made nay move, he should've gotten a lawyer and claimed entrapment!
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You're probably right. In his mind he was probably just being a good Samaritan, offering some poor, destitute hooker a healthy meal. Or he is a cheap degenerate. I guess we'll never know.]
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