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Bizarre News - May 7, 2014
Greetings fellow Bizarros: Sometimes people die for a reason; Maybe they are a soldier, or maybe they overdose on drugs. Some people just get sick and die for no reason at all.
Then there are the people who get run over while doing pushups, naked in the street. The unfortunate fitness enthusiast was 43-year-old James Earl Hunter of Oregon.
Portland Police were called to a report of a man running naked in traffic at 4 a.m. As officers responded, a second report came in that the naked man was doing push-ups in the street. Then, a third report that he'd been struck by a vehicle.
Officers and emergency medical workers found the man, deceased, according to the Portland Police Bureau. The driver of the vehicle that struck the man remained at the scene and was cooperative. The driver was not impaired by alcohol or drugs, according to police.
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Email Lewis*-- Hot pizza classified as 'dangerous weapon' during arrest of James Vincent Grass --*CHICOPEE, Mass. (UPI) - During the arrest of a Massachusetts man, a police officer classified a piece of hot pizza as a "dangerous weapon" after it caused first- and second-degree burns. James Vincent Grass allegedly shoved a piece of freshly-microwaved pizza into a 6-year-old girl's face and was charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and reckless endangerment of a child. The 21-year-old denied the charges against him during his arraignment. In his incident report, Officer Terry Dec wrote the girl said Grass "threw a piece of pizza in her face" when she stopped the microwave because it was steaming. When she tried to explain, Grass grabbed the pizza and asked "Do you think this is done?" before allegedly shoving the slice in her face and saying "Is that hot enough?" According to Grass the girl asked to smell the pizza and he then "pushed her face into it." When her mother picked her up, the girl had already popped a blister on her chin and was holding a wet towel to her face.
*-- Cabbages used by Chinese teens to battle depression? --*BEIJING (UPI) - According to some reports, Chinese teenagers have taken to walking heads of cabbage on leashes as if they were dogs in order to battle depression and loneliness. The vegetable walkers were spotted at the Midi Music Festival in Beijing. Apparently walking a cabbage is a good way to strike up a conversation with another person who has decided to make a vegetable their pet. "It's not about finding a boyfriend or girlfriend, just about having someone to talk to and share things with, a statement of youth isolated in the big cities," said Beijing University psychiatrist Wen Chao, the Austrian Times reported. "The idea is simple -- you feel as lonely and as simple as a cabbage, so you begin to act like one and befriend one. And in that acceptance comes change." It could be said the teens are stopping themselves from feeling blue by going green. "I feel I can transfer my negative thoughts about myself to the cabbage, go for a walk with it and come home feeling better about myself," said cabbage-walker Lui Ja Chen. "In fact afterwards, I can throw the cabbage away and feel that I have tossed my feelings out with it." Other media outlets say they cabbage walkers were just engaging in performance art. The Culture Trip reports that the cabbage walk was simply an art project by Chinese artist Han Bing. Han's website reports the Chinese cabbage is "a quintessentially Chinese symbol of sustenance and comfort for poor Chinese turned upside down."
*-- READER COMMENTS --*The woman in NY who ran over the 17 y.o. for emotional trauma is suing the 17 y.o.'s estate (namely, his family). After all, they are the one's that have insurance (not a teenager!).
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Nice and pessimistically pragmatic.]
Lewis: As far as I am concerned, taking his granny to the prom was wonderful. When I was that age I planned to ask a pretty girl named Margie for prom but Dad tranferred to a new job 120 miles from Margie and there were no girls that I could relate to in the new high school; I blame myself. I would never have thought to ask my grandmother to prom. She lived 800 miles from us back when I graduated from high school, a long, long time ago.
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I like the line from Dave Letterman who said, "I had to take my cousin to prom. If you think I was embarrassed imagine how HE felt."]
As a Mensa member, thanks. I would hope to think we are better then that or at least can come up with a much better excuse for having the money. Being a mensan means having a greater capacity to screw up. -Scott Avnaim
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When you become a member of Mensa does it mean you have "menstruated"?]
Concerning the boy who took his great-grandmother to prom, I just wanted to say that is one of the kindest and sweetest things I have ever read. Kudos to him! -Chris
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