[kj] OT - Odd, really..

[sade1]

News to laugh at, i guess.

Thinning the Herd (please)

Beat My Guest
And a 15-year-old boy in Maryland Heights, Mo., who had been
demonstrating his pain tolerance by clobbering himself on the
head with his skateboard, invited a pal to take a shot, too; the
first blow knocked him out, and he died four days later. [Denver
Post, 9-2-03] [St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 9-10-03]

“Ok…if I do this,…I won’t feel a thing..”
A 20-year-old man was killed in Denver during afternoon rush
hour on Sept. 1 when he jumped from a car going about 40 mph;
according to friends, he had been planning a nonfatal jump for a
while because he wanted to endure some trauma in order to muster
the courage to get a tattoo.


Latest Alarming Headlines   “D’Oh!”
"Woman With No Baby Given Caesarean" (a September Melbourne
(Australia) Herald Sun report on an overweight woman who went
into cardiac arrest at a hospital after telling doctors she was
pregnant, motivating them to try to deliver the baby in case
they couldn't save her). (She survived; the baby never existed.)

"Man With Ear Ache Gets Vasectomy" (an August Reuters dispatch
from Rio de Janeiro about a patient who answered the wrong
doctor's call at a clinic and endured the procedure because he
thought the ear inflammation had deep roots).  [But what about
my ear?”]

Liberal ULTRAS?!
In September, religious fundamentalists brawled in Brooklyn,
N.Y., when the locally dominant Satmar sect of ultra-Orthodox
Jews moved aggressively against slightly less-ultra-Orthodox
Jews who were using a loophole to be able to push baby strollers
and wheelchairs around during the Sabbath, when such activity is
prohibited in public. "The (Satmars) were like animals," said a
security guard who witnessed the incident. (The "eruv" loophole
allows such labor inside a symbolic wall, which the more liberal
ultras had constructed with sticks and string.) [New York Post,
9-7-03]

And finally, an opportunity for Victoria’s Secret (Police),
 
A July Wall Street Journal report revealed that some women's
clothing stores in Tehran, Iran, do a brisk backroom business in
tight, colorful, sheer, form-fitting robes that are severely
frowned upon by the conservative Islamic government, which
prescribes the formless hijab robe. One clerk showed one that
was actually a "paper-thin beige tunic made of stretchy material
with two slits on each side," "with a matching tank top." Other
popular robes make strategic use of zippers for women who have
to convert their flashy clothing into something conservative in
a hurry.


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  I want to be
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