Chuck’s Hand-Picked Overnight Weird News for Saturday
Update: Swaziland's King Mswati continues to live large in a dirt-poor nation (and his people love it)
To celebrate turning the big-4-oh, he had a 15,000-seat stadium built and ordered BMWs for visiting dignitaries. Forbes estimates he's worth $200m and skims millions a yr from the gov't and business. He has made News of the Weird several times, e.g., his 5-yr ban on all sex by virgin women (to reduce the sky-high HIV rate) (didn't work) (and personally he promptly broke the rule, anyway) (but he paid the fine, which was one cow). In a new documentary, he admits that poverty makes him "sad" and that "sometimes . . you wish to help them but the funds are always not enough." No matter. Even his critics agree that he is seriously beloved, even by the beggars. New York Times
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Your Daily Loser
Patrick Dodenhoff, 39, charged with flashing people on a couple of California beaches, was actually arrested while hiding in the brush at "Pirate's Cove," which is a locally-well-known nude beach. (Seriously.) Monterey County Herald
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Your Daily Jury Duty
[no fair examining the evidence; verdict must be based on mugshot only]
Jesus Perez, 71, charged with killing a homeless man in Miami. WPLG-TV (Miami)
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More Things to Worry About on Saturday
The suburban-Pittsburgh couple weren't running a swingers' club out of the private home in the nice neighborhood but had actually been operating, in that home, for 7 yrs, Saturday night church services, where congregants went at it religiously . . . . . It's Good to Be a British Prisoner (continuing series): Why, this guy, whose sentence was up 2 yrs ago, still refuses to leave! . . . . . Fine Points of the Law: The Iowa Supreme Court tossed out a conviction for "indecent exposure" against a guy caught at night outside women's windows moaning and with baby oil on his hands; the justices pointed out that, after all, no one actually saw his stuff. Today's Newsrangers: Cindy Hildebrand, Bobby Stout
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To celebrate turning the big-4-oh, he had a 15,000-seat stadium built and ordered BMWs for visiting dignitaries. Forbes estimates he's worth $200m and skims millions a yr from the gov't and business. He has made News of the Weird several times, e.g., his 5-yr ban on all sex by virgin women (to reduce the sky-high HIV rate) (didn't work) (and personally he promptly broke the rule, anyway) (but he paid the fine, which was one cow). In a new documentary, he admits that poverty makes him "sad" and that "sometimes . . you wish to help them but the funds are always not enough." No matter. Even his critics agree that he is seriously beloved, even by the beggars. New York Times
Comments 'mswati_40'
Your Daily Loser
Patrick Dodenhoff, 39, charged with flashing people on a couple of California beaches, was actually arrested while hiding in the brush at "Pirate's Cove," which is a locally-well-known nude beach. (Seriously.) Monterey County Herald
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Your Daily Jury Duty
[no fair examining the evidence; verdict must be based on mugshot only]
Jesus Perez, 71, charged with killing a homeless man in Miami. WPLG-TV (Miami)
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More Things to Worry About on Saturday
The suburban-Pittsburgh couple weren't running a swingers' club out of the private home in the nice neighborhood but had actually been operating, in that home, for 7 yrs, Saturday night church services, where congregants went at it religiously . . . . . It's Good to Be a British Prisoner (continuing series): Why, this guy, whose sentence was up 2 yrs ago, still refuses to leave! . . . . . Fine Points of the Law: The Iowa Supreme Court tossed out a conviction for "indecent exposure" against a guy caught at night outside women's windows moaning and with baby oil on his hands; the justices pointed out that, after all, no one actually saw his stuff. Today's Newsrangers: Cindy Hildebrand, Bobby Stout
Comments 'worry_080906'
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