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Schooling Kids
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Bellevue, WA
There's a story circulating through the Bellevue School District
about the woman who called wanting information on home
schooling. Both Lake Washington (Renton, WA) and Bellevue districts are noted
for their support of home schoolers, and the Bellevue spokesperson
was explaining procedures and what to do to the mother on the
telephone.
Among other things, the mother needed to file a declaration of
intent, a kind of home school registration. The spokeswoman offered
to send out the proper form.
The mother gave a Renton address. The spokeswoman suggested registering the children in her home
district in Renton, the Lake Washington School District.
"No way," said the mother. "Everyone knows Bellevue schools are much
better than Renton schools."
Hotel
loud snorer's
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Sunday, December 13, 1992
In October, the Swallows Hotel in Gates head, England, offered 11
chronic snorers a free night's stay so they it could test how well
soundproofed the rooms are. The hotel staff tape-recorded the sounds
coming from the rooms and promised the loudest snorer a prize.
Huge
Criminal Record
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February 10, 1993
Dennis Payne, 30, was arrested as a pickpocket at a Jersey City,
N.J., train station, his 135th arrest in New Jersey and New York City
since 1978. Police said it took a computer more than a half-hour to
print out Payne's arrest record.
Hunter
Shot By Fox
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Hunter Shot to Death By a Fox, Belgrade, Associated PressA fox shot and killed a 38-year-old hunter in central Yugoslavia, the
official Yugoslav news agency Tanjug reported yesterday.
Salih Hajdur, a farmer from the village of Gornje Hrasno in the
Republic of Bosnia-Hercegovina, went to a nearby forest Sunday to
shoot a fox, Tanjug said.
Hajdur wounded a fox in the leg, the agency said, but to spare the
skin he did not fire again. Instead, he hit the animal with his refle
butt. The struggling animal triggered a shot that hit Hajdur in the
chest and killed him instantly, Tanjug said. The fox died later,
Tanjug added.
I.R.S
Parking Ticket
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Boston Globe, April 13, 1990
Is there justice in this world? Well, in Jacksonville, Fla., an
Internal Revenue Service car parked outside the federal courthouse
was "booted" for unpaid parking tickets, forcing tax collectors to
fork over $122.50 to set it free.
The IRS had to pay $95 for five tickets, a $25 removal fee plus $2.50
for processing to get the boot taken off, said Gertrude Bradley,
clerical supervisor for the city parking division.
With the tax-filing deadline closing in, courthouse employees were
chuckling about the IRS' misfortune. But the agency was not amused.
"We're not pleased with it," said spokesman Holger Euringer. Yeah,
we're all really upset.
I'II
Sue Of Injury
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Fort Worth, Texas:
Lee Lively thought he was doing the right thing when he shot a
drunken driving suspect who had beaten up a policeman and was running
away.
His faith was shaken when Jesus Puentes demanded $1.7 million for his
wounds.
But the jury said Puentes is the one who must pay -- $1.75 million in
punitive damages and $1,000 for Cpl. Randy Whisenhunt's injuries.
"We just wanted to make a statement. We're tired of the frivolous
lawsuits that are plaguing our court system," juror Elsie Bowles
said.
February 17, 1990, Lively saw Puentes grabbing for Whisenhunt's gun.
The officer managed to knock it away, but ended up with Puentes
sitting on his chest, beating his face.
Lively said he leaped out of his truck and beat Puentes to the gun.
As Puentes began to run, Lively said he shouted twice for him to
stop, then shot him twice in the legs.
Insulting
To Women
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Bangkok, Thailand
A member of the ruling junta who oversees Thai Airways International
has ordered the carrier to hire more-attractive stewardesses."We have received a lot of complaints that our air hostesses are not
pretty enough, too old and unsmiling," Air Chief Marshal Kaset
Rojananil said.
In an interview published in "The Nation", the airline has been
hiring too many college-educated women, he said, adding: "Intelligent
women tend not to be good looking."
Invest
Artificial Dogs
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Sunday, November 22, 1992
Researchers at Cornell University recently patented an artificial dog
that would speed up the breeding of fleas for lab use.
Previously, the lab required 25 live, severely infected dogs to breed
the 12,000 fleas per day needed in studies of humans' and animals'
allergic reactions to fleas.
Kidnapped
Caught Him
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funny.
January 12, 1993
San Francisco police arrested Russell C. Sultan in July and charged
him with attempting to extort $23,000 from his mother and girlfriend
by claiming to have been kidnapped for ransom.
After tracing telephone calls, police, guns drawn, burst into a motel
room to find Sultan casually eating fried chicken and watching a
49ers football game.
Sultan said the kidnappers had merely left him alone for a while, and
exclaimed to the officers, "What took you so long?"
Lenin
Silver Rubber
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funny.
In 1967, the Soviet Government minted a beautiful silver ruble with
Lenin in a very familiar pose - arms raised above him, leading the
country to revolution. But, it was clear to everybody, that if you
looked at it from behind, it was clear that Lenin was pointing to
11:00, when the Vodka shops opened, and was actually saying,
"Comrades, forward to the Vodka shops."
It became fashionable, when one wanted to have a drink, to take out
the ruble and say, "Oh my goodness, Comrades, Lenin tells me we
should go."
Locked
In The Trunk
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Monday, December 7, 1992
Joe Albert Ruiz, 19, was arrested in Santa Maria in September. Police
said he had broken into a car in the middle of the night and was in
the trunk, disconnecting the rear speakers, when the trunk closed and
locked him in.
Neighbors reported strange noises, and a police officer called to the
scene heard Ruiz banging on the trunk and yelling, "Let me out!"
Making
Cars Drive
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February 17, 1993
Fort Erie, Ontario, Constable Paul Fletcher told reporters in
December that a man armed with a club tried to force a woman to drive
him home with her to get money for him, but that when he waited for
her to unlock the passenger door from inside, she sped away.
Massive
Ball Of Hair
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funny.
December 18, 1992
Three maintenance workers in Alexandria, Ind., fixed a massive
street-flooding problem in October when they pulled a 200-pound
hairball from a manhole. Said one of the men, "We thought we had a
goat."
Monkey
Travel In Space
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LOS ANGELES TIMES, October 8:
One of the passengers in a Soviet spacecraft is fooling around with
the equipment, and his monkeyshines may end the flight prematurely.
The passenger is in fact a monkey named Yarosha -- Russian slang for
village troublemaker. Evidently bored on the fifth day of a scheduled
12-day flight, Yarosha slipped out of his harness and took a tour of
the spacecraft. Tass, the Soviet news agency, reported that Yarosha
was having a delightful time tampering with all of the equipment
within reach. Watch out, Yarosha; if you break something, they'll
probably dock your flight pay.
Most
Popular Video
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Wednesday, October 21, 1992
The most popular video in Sweden earlier this year was a 60-minute
fireplace fire, shown from the point of ignition until it burns into
cinders, and featuring a sound-track of fire-crackling wood. Price:
about $35.
New
Military Tourism
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Moscow, Russia:
First it was a flight in a MiG fighter jet. Then 30 seconds of
weightlessness in a cosmonaut-training device.
Soon thrill-seeking tourists may be able to ride in a Russian
submarine, tank or missile ship.
Pressed for money and burdened with surplus weaponry since the end of
the Cold War, Russia is pioneering a new fad: military tourism.
The only requirements are a taste for adventure and plenty of cash.
As the plane goes into a dive from 30,000 feet, passengers in its
padded zero-gravity chamber suddenly rise from the aircraft's floor.
The price for floating free for half a minute: $4,000.
New
way to herd Cattle
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Wednesday, October 21, 1992
A Japanese rancher told reporters in Tokyo in July that he herds
cattle by outfitting them with pocket pagers (beepers), which he
calls from his portable phone.
After a week of training, the cows associate the beeping with eating
and hustle up for grub.
Newspapers
Typing Error
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The following appeared on the back page of one of Australia's more outrageous computer publications, "Computing Australia", 21st Sept 1987: ... Blame it on the computer.
An unfriendly computer has been held responsible for a "potentially lethal error" involving a Mafia loan collector.
A New York paper inadvertently put the `heavy' in the running for a pair of custom-fitted concrete shoes when it identified him as a "ruthless informer".
According to a published retraction (and apology!), a writer on the paper had actually typed "ruthless enforcer" - but the computer system's spelling checker liked it the other way.
And I thought the worst you could expect from a "computer error" was a bill for a million dollars!
Normal
Traffic Stop
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Sunday, December 13, 1992
After police pulled over Kevin Temple, 35, in a routine traffic stop
in Bronson, Fla., in October, a police dog sniffing the trunk became
agitated. In the trunk and back seat, officers found the following
live animals: 48 rattlesnakes, a Gila monster, 45 non-poisonous
snakes, 67 scorpions, several tarantulas and small lizards, and a
parrot. Temple said they were just pets.
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