Chuck’s Hand-Picked Overnight Weird News for Friday
He had three good years before his heart turned evil
Andrew Busskohl, now 18, Woodbury, Minn., got a life-saving heart transplant in 2003 and has been thriving, against not-so-favorable odds. Then, a few months ago, he started having these thoughts, later described to a buddy: He needed to murder someone, a stranger, and had meticulous plans on how to pull it off free and clear. He took the first step a week ago when he picked out the proper stranger and broke a window in his home (in order to return later to do the deed). But the buddy went to the police, and ultimately Busskohl matter-of-factly described the plot. Star Tribune
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Security-designer to the stars has moved into the crime-rich South African market
Bogota's Miguel Caballero's very-high-end suits, raincoats, shirts, vests, etc., made of bullet-resistant material (stab-proofing is extra) have gone on sale in Johannesburg. Visit MiguelCaballero.com for more details, but if you have to ask the price, you're not important enough to assassinate (and, no, WeirdUniverse doesn't get a click-through fee). BBC News
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Fertility clinics in Africa (because childless women are, y'know, demons)
Kampala has two, Nairobi one, and maybe a couple of others are operating, because the average African woman has 7 kids, and you're nothin' if you can't produce.
Washington Post
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Updates
Turns out our pal, the dog-cloner Bernann McKinney [Weird Universe, 8-11-2008], is also wanted on an old warrant in Tennessee, part of a plot to steal money so she could buy a leg for a three-legged horse she owned at the time (Seriously) . . . . . And our pal Kerry Norris, the sex-crazed, headboard-banging neighbor [Weird Universe, 8-8-2008], will have to start sleeping at boyfriend Adam Hinton's place because her neighbors got an order keeping his randy butt away from their building . . . . . And our pal Dede Koswara, the Indonesian with tree bark for hands and feet (unrestrained warts) [NOTW M035, 12-9-2007], is making great progress according to this photo (which you can compare with this one when he started treatment). Associated Press via Yahoo // Associated Press via Yahoo // Daily Telegraph (London)
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Your Daily Loser
Sterling Wolfname, on the lam for a fatal beating, drew attention from a street cop who had heard about the fugitive. Hold it right there, fella, are you Sterling Wolfname? (Never heard of him.) Then how come you've got "Wolfname" tattooed on the side of your head? (D'Oh!)
Associated Press via The Missoulian (Missoula, Mont.)
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Your Daily Jury Duty
[no fair examining the evidence; verdict must be based on mugshot only]
Not only do you need to ignore the evidence here, but you must also ignore that the male of this couple (each charged with having sex with an underage girl) goes by "Cornbread" Kilgore. WTVC-TV (Chattanooga)
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More Things to Worry About on Friday
In Galveston, Tex., she got cuffed by a city fire marshal for using the F word in a private conversation in a Wal-Mart (but she might have gotten cuffed for also going nuts at the marshal) . . . . . Tony Goodchild got his temporary restraining order against his girlfriend in Darwin, Australia, so now she's prohibited from cutting his stuff off as she promised . . . . . Recurring Theme: Once again, clean-up people underappreciate an edgy art exhibit and innocently destroy it, because that's their job (Sydney, Australia) . . . . . Police in eastern Pennsylvania chased Benjamin Knowlton, 19, in his stolen car for 25 miles at speeds of around 100 mph, ending when he inadvertently drove into a sewage pond (from which he climbed out, and escaped on foot, but cops picked up his trail, so to speak). Today's Newsrangers: Wendy Palm, Bruce Townley, Carey Gunthert, John Holsinger, Tom Barker, Mindy Cohen
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Andrew Busskohl, now 18, Woodbury, Minn., got a life-saving heart transplant in 2003 and has been thriving, against not-so-favorable odds. Then, a few months ago, he started having these thoughts, later described to a buddy: He needed to murder someone, a stranger, and had meticulous plans on how to pull it off free and clear. He took the first step a week ago when he picked out the proper stranger and broke a window in his home (in order to return later to do the deed). But the buddy went to the police, and ultimately Busskohl matter-of-factly described the plot. Star Tribune
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Security-designer to the stars has moved into the crime-rich South African market
Bogota's Miguel Caballero's very-high-end suits, raincoats, shirts, vests, etc., made of bullet-resistant material (stab-proofing is extra) have gone on sale in Johannesburg. Visit MiguelCaballero.com for more details, but if you have to ask the price, you're not important enough to assassinate (and, no, WeirdUniverse doesn't get a click-through fee). BBC News
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Fertility clinics in Africa (because childless women are, y'know, demons)
Kampala has two, Nairobi one, and maybe a couple of others are operating, because the average African woman has 7 kids, and you're nothin' if you can't produce.
The clinics offer an alternative to superstitious explanations of infertility and the dubious advice of traditional healers, whose cures include having women run naked in circles around a dead sparrow at night. Fertility doctors are also bringing to light an uncomfortable truth about a condition almost always blamed on women: that at least half the time, the problem is with the man.
Washington Post
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Updates
Turns out our pal, the dog-cloner Bernann McKinney [Weird Universe, 8-11-2008], is also wanted on an old warrant in Tennessee, part of a plot to steal money so she could buy a leg for a three-legged horse she owned at the time (Seriously) . . . . . And our pal Kerry Norris, the sex-crazed, headboard-banging neighbor [Weird Universe, 8-8-2008], will have to start sleeping at boyfriend Adam Hinton's place because her neighbors got an order keeping his randy butt away from their building . . . . . And our pal Dede Koswara, the Indonesian with tree bark for hands and feet (unrestrained warts) [NOTW M035, 12-9-2007], is making great progress according to this photo (which you can compare with this one when he started treatment). Associated Press via Yahoo // Associated Press via Yahoo // Daily Telegraph (London)
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Your Daily Loser
Sterling Wolfname, on the lam for a fatal beating, drew attention from a street cop who had heard about the fugitive. Hold it right there, fella, are you Sterling Wolfname? (Never heard of him.) Then how come you've got "Wolfname" tattooed on the side of your head? (D'Oh!)
Associated Press via The Missoulian (Missoula, Mont.)
Comments 'sterling_wolfname'
Your Daily Jury Duty
[no fair examining the evidence; verdict must be based on mugshot only]
Not only do you need to ignore the evidence here, but you must also ignore that the male of this couple (each charged with having sex with an underage girl) goes by "Cornbread" Kilgore. WTVC-TV (Chattanooga)
Comments 'cornbread_kilgore'
More Things to Worry About on Friday
In Galveston, Tex., she got cuffed by a city fire marshal for using the F word in a private conversation in a Wal-Mart (but she might have gotten cuffed for also going nuts at the marshal) . . . . . Tony Goodchild got his temporary restraining order against his girlfriend in Darwin, Australia, so now she's prohibited from cutting his stuff off as she promised . . . . . Recurring Theme: Once again, clean-up people underappreciate an edgy art exhibit and innocently destroy it, because that's their job (Sydney, Australia) . . . . . Police in eastern Pennsylvania chased Benjamin Knowlton, 19, in his stolen car for 25 miles at speeds of around 100 mph, ending when he inadvertently drove into a sewage pond (from which he climbed out, and escaped on foot, but cops picked up his trail, so to speak). Today's Newsrangers: Wendy Palm, Bruce Townley, Carey Gunthert, John Holsinger, Tom Barker, Mindy Cohen
Comments 'worry_080815'
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