In May, a curious Joe Heckel of Cincinnati and his son took apart the heavy punching bag Joe had bought for their boxing practice and to their surprise found it full of, not sand or plastic pellets, but men’s and women’s underwear (some used). According to a May report on WLWT-TV, the manufacturer, Technical Knockout […]
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Unclear on the Concept
New-Age Ethics: Texas A&M’s business school punished 24 students in May for cheating on a business ethics exam (and investigated 27 others, but could not meet the school’s legal standard of “irrefutable” proof against them). The offense was that some students took exams for others. During the spring term at New Jersey’s Kean University, former […]
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Evan Almighty
Reviewer’s grade: C- Director Tom Shadyac has created a bland mess of biblical proportions in his $175 million follow-up to 2003’s “Bruce Almighty.” “Evan Almighty” stars Steve Carell as anchorman-turned-congressman Evan Baxter, whom God calls upon to build an ark so he can thwart the evil machinations of a Southern congressman named, surprise, Long. […]
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Spraygrounds offer safer cool-down alternative to swimming
New water parks are a blast ” quite literally ” for kids, but safer than a dive into a crowded 8-foot pool. The Oklahoma City Parks and Recreation Department’s new “spraygrounds” bring showers and sprays and tons of fun for the whole family. At 11 locations throughout the metro, the vibrant parks offer a variety […]
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Reviewer’s grade: B John Cusack is Mike Enslin, a jaded author of books on haunted tourism. He visits hotels and sites around the country that boast about ghosts, spirits and apparitions. He never has seen any of the ghosts himself, but after he gets a postcard inviting him to stay at the Dolphin Hotel […]
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Updates
Michael Wiley of Port Richey, Fla., in News of the Weird last year for his maniacal driving despite having lost both arms and half a leg in a childhood accident, was back in trouble in May, leading police on (and winning) a high-speed chase (but they recognized the notorious Wiley behind the wheel and arrested […]
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Thinning the Herd
Recurring Themes: · An 18-year-old man intent for some reason on spray-painting graffiti in an electrical substation in Santa Fe, N.M., jumped the concrete wall and razor wire in May and started to work, but soon burned himself badly and died days later. · A 29-year-old man from Downers Grove, Ill., deciding for some reason […]
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Don’t You Know Who I Am!
In April, Marilyn Devaney, who is one of eight elected Massachusetts officials with authority over certain actions taken by the governor, was accused of assault in Waltham, Mass., after she allegedly hit a beauty-shop clerk with a curling iron when the employee declined to take Devaney’s personal check. Devaney had allegedly, indignantly pointed out her […]
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Least Competent Criminals
Howard Mayfield, 47, and Valerie Lester, 36, were arrested at his trailer home near Damascus, Va., in March as the two, according to police, nearly burned down the home while trying to destroy counterfeit money that Mayfield had printed. Police had served arrest warrants at 5:15 a.m., found the trailer smoky, and upon entering saw […]
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People With Issues
In March, police in Ann Arbor, Mich., were called to the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity at the University of Michigan after a female trespasser entered during the dinner hour and ignored repeated attempts to get her to leave (even though she merely sat down, removed her clothes and masturbated). Fraternity members said later they would […]