Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Greetings fellow Bizarros: Now this is some serious James Bond stuff. You want to talk about a guy who will NOT let go of an argument, let me tell you about Robert Kowalik.
Authorities say the man managed to call an emergency dispatcher and describe his situation while he clung to the outside of a pickup truck as it traveled three miles on a New York road.
Police in Troy, N.Y. say that the 45-year-old Kowalik got into a dispute with another man at convenience store. When the man drove away in his pickup truck, Kowalik was on the outside of the vehicle.
Police say it's not clear whether he had grabbed onto the truck or accidentally got attached. Either way he managed to dial 911 on his cell phone and give the dispatcher a "play-by-play" of the ordeal, which ended when he fell in a store parking lot.
Kowalik was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries. The driver was charged with assault.
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(More 'Bizarre August Holidays' Next Issue)*-- Passenger takes bite out of bus seat --*PAIGNTON, England - British police said they are trying to identify a bus passenger recorded by a CCTV camera biting a chunk out of a leather seat. Police said footage from the No. 12 bus in Paignton recorded the man biting a chunk out of the seat around 8:20 p.m. May 25, causing about $314 worth of damage, The Mirror reported Monday. "While traveling between Paignton and Torquay on a No. 12 bus, a male passenger started chewing the leather seat he ... sat on and continued to pick at the hole with his hand to make further damage. Around 200 pounds ($314) of damage was caused," a Devon and Cornwall police spokesman said. The suspect was described as in his late 20s with a stocky build and about 5-foot-9.
*-- Web site: Zebulon a 'hot' baby name --*WILMINGTON, Del. - Officials with a Web site based in Delaware said they were surprised when Zebulon made their list of the 14 "hottest" baby names of the year. The Nameberry.com officials said the Zebulon page on their Web site received 2,128 hits from the start of the year until June, compared with only 420 hits in the same time period last year, the Raleigh (N.C.) News & Observer reported Monday. "We measure interest in baby names by tracking the number of views on each of our 50,000 baby name pages," said Pam Satran, Web site co-founder and author of 10 baby name books. Satran said Zebulon has only made the Social Security Administration's list of the 1,000 most popular names four times, in 1891, 1978, 1979 and 1980. She said the highest point it reached was No. 776 in 1978. "Likely because of Grandpa Zebulon on 'The Waltons,'" Satran said, making reference to a 1970s TV show.
*-- READER COMMENTS --*Lewis- I hope you were being sarcastic in your piece about the office suing Glock for the pistol that shot him in the back, but unfortunately there are idiots out there that may have taken you seriously.
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Hey! If you don't think it should be safe to hand a loaded handgun to a baby then you hate America. And Freedom. And Jesus.]
Please? How do you upholster a Glock? -Linda P.
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Typically with a very soft, hand-tooled leather. And thank you to the other 29 readers who helpfully wrote in to point out my typo.]
I'm curious how much experience Anna has managing a bar. Whether the bar manager was at the other end mixing a drink, or right there encouraging him, Ghost Rider alone is responsible for his own actions, no matter how stupid. Criminal negligence... next thing you know, parents will be held responsible for the actions of their children! -Rick
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And we certainly can't have that.]
Have you heard/seen the crotch-rocket crash that happened in CT? A group of these daredevils were racing in traffic at speeds uptake to 160mph, all caught on video by a 'dash' cam on the one bike. They came upon stopped traffic, and the cam bike couldn't stop in time. It hit the rear of a tractor trailer, all on video. The bike driver was killed, and his female passenger seriously injured. Now get this, her lawyer went after everyone the truck driver; the company, the manufacturer of the truck tires and trailer, and more. The lawyer won just about it all, even though the truck was completely, lawfully stopped in a traffic jam on the road. Nice, huh?
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I find that one hard to believe. Not impossible, mind you, just hard to believe.]
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