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Saturday, July 17, 2010
Greetings fellow Bizarros:
What is it with Ohio? A lot of weird stuff seems to happen
there. You might not know this, but Ohio is the birthplace
of an inordinate number of aviation pioneers. Orville and
Wilbur Wright were from Ohio. They successfully demonstrated
the world's first airplane in 1903 (in case you missed all
four years of high school).
John Glenn, the first American in space, was from Ohio. Ever
hear of a guy named Neil Armstrong? Ohio. In fact, literally
dozens of American astronauts have come from Ohio. But that
is just bizarre coincidence. Ohio has a much more evil side.
Regular readers will remember an issue of Bizarre News from
a couple weeks ago where I mentioned a recent court case in
Ohio which ruled that a trained traffic police officer no
longer has to prove a motorist was speeding using radar. All
he (or she) has to do is judge (that is guess) that you were
speeding and he can give you a ticket.
That defendant took his case all the way to the Ohio Supreme
Court to finally get it shot down.
Now a new bit of Ohio underhandedness has come to the public's
eye. Selling your personal information. If someone were to
take your name, address, driver's license number and various
other personal information and sell it to someone else, you
would have a very good case for identity theft. However,
this is exactly what the state of Ohio is doing. And for the
whopping price of .0014 cents per record.
Ohio has collected millions of dollars selling records with
this information, often including social security numbers,
so it can be used in all sorts of ways, from crafting
insurance policies to screening job candidates.
Since 2005, the Bureau of Motor Vehicles has sold more than
1.39 billion records. And apparently it is all perfectly
legal.
It's no wonder all of those astronauts were trying to get as
far away from Ohio as possible!
Bizarrely,
Lewis
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------------ Alleged tweezer thief gets plucked ------------
GIG HARBOR, Wash. - Authorities in Washington state said a
man facing theft and assault charges told deputies he did
not need the tweezers he allegedly tried to steal. Pierce
County sheriff's deputies said Troy Montgomery, 48, walked
into a pharmacy Friday in Gig Harbor and placed a pair of
the store's tweezers in his pocket, The (Tacoma) News
Tribune reported Thursday. Montgomery threw the tweezers
and tried to leave when a store employee confronted him
and said she was calling police. Deputies said Montgomery
shoved a pharmacist, who was blocking the door, causing
the man to fall to the ground and incur a 3-inch cut to
his arm. Deputies said the suspect was detained by custom-
ers until they arrived. Montgomery was asked whether he
wanted to answer questions about the incident. "Not
really," Montgomery told deputies. "Besides being stupid,
I don't even need the thing, about the dumbest thing I
ever did." He was arrested and charged with third-degree
theft and third-degree assault.
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---------- Junk mail quickly fills senior's home ----------
FORT WORTH, Texas - A Texas woman said her father receives
so much junk mail that his house is full of letters and on
a recent day he received 96 pieces of mail. The Fort Worth
Star-Telegram reported the Fort Worth woman and her 81-year-
old father, whose names were not released by the newspaper,
said the man's house is littered with junk mail, including
a 3 1/2-foot pile of letters on his breakfast table. The
woman said her father, who received 96 pieces of junk
mail Monday alone, gives about $2,500 a year to various
charities and began receiving junk mail in amounts too
large to fit through his mail slot about a year ago. The
daughter said she has been mailing the companies to ask
them to take her father off their mailing lists, but the
process has been slow. "How many others is this happening
to?" the daughter asked. "This isn't right. Our seniors
shouldn't be treated this way."
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> READER COMMENTS <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
British woman died from heart arrhythmia brought on by
arousal via vibrator? Holy shit, What was the vibrator
set to? Wow, I thought you just go blind. How bizarre.
You think her tombstone read; "Here lies Betsy Ann Hunt,
Tried to Cum but only Went." Poor lady. Life can be so
cruel. -Apollo
[True, but there are worse ways to die. Look at poor David
Carradine.]
I wonder does she do BONDAGE MODELING before, after, or
during? -Bob
[Bondage and Lawrence Welk? Or bondage and smoking pot? I
guess either one is pretty kinky.]
Legalizing pot is one of the biggest fallacies of the drug
debate. Gangs will go away. You tell me honestly that a
single drug lord in Mexico won't just bulldoze their fields
and start making poppies. They won't go away because we
change the product on them. In fact they might be more
powerful because other drugs are more addictive. -John
Lewis, Sorry that you will only be once a week. I only read
on weekends, but enjoy having 2 issues. Does this mean you
also do another email? -Louis
[You might have noticed that we took most of the ads out of
Bizarre News, too. What we are going to do is start sending
a stand-alone email to the BN email list with one ad in it.
Hopefully, this way we can still keep Bizarre News free to
all! So please look for that and don't unsubscribe to it!
Because you'll be unsubscribed to Bizarre News, too.]
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