Chuck’s Hand-Picked Overnight Weird News for Saturday
Gandhi's beloved toilet re-created for museum
The peace icon Mahatma Gandhi was also known for his obsessive hygiene, including reverence for his personal toilet, where he was reported to have done his best thinking. "I learnt [long ago] that a [bathroom] must be as clean as a drawing room," he supposedly wrote. At the major Gandhi ashram-museum in Ahmedabad, they originally removed the toilet as unbecoming, but now, on reflection, they're re-installing it. Daily Telegraph (London)
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So, my wife's in a coma, but, hey, she's still my wife, and I have needs
A Wisconsin appeals court affirmed a lower court ruling that a surveillance video of David Johnson having sex with his wife in a nursing home could not be used against him in a rape trial (rape, because she's unable to give consent). A married couple has an expectation of privacy in a closed room, and hence the warrant permitting the camera to be set up was unconstitutional. Associated Press via Wisconsin State Journal
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District of Calamity: "Thousands" of write-in votes in the primary election last week were bogus
They think the problem was a defective memory cartridge in the Sequoia Voting Systems software, but several local races might have been affected. (However, there's no possible amount of screwing-up that will change where D.C.'s 3 electoral votes go in November.) Washington Post
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Mom, 33, pretends to be her daughter, 15, to fulfill her dream of being a high school cheerleader
Wendy Brown looked a little older, said one staff member at Ashwaubenon High in Green Bay, Wis., but she had the "demeanor" of a high school girl. While the daughter was out in Nevada living with Brown's mother, Brown (who had a history of identity theft) signed up for cheerleading practice and made the squad (although her check to pay for the uniform bounced). Associated Press via Capital Times (Madison)
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Update: After a lull, the Valentine, Neb., butt-cheek vandal is back
The still-unknown man apparently took the winter off, but he's back, dropping trou at night at storefronts in the tiny town (pop. 2,650), and pressing his oiled/Vaselined butt against the windows. "During one particularly brazen session, virtually all the windows at a local hotel were imprinted." Associated Press via Yahoo // NOTW M042 (1-27-2008)
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Your Daily Loser
Matthew Snell, 19, Ocala, Fla., has several things going against him: His crime was not exactly manly (graffiti), plus not in a high-traffic venue (on cemetery gravestones). Plus, he signed his work with his very distinctive nickname. Plus, his nickname is Roach. Plus, he looks like a bug. Star-Banner (Ocala)
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People Whose Sex Lives Are Worse Than Yours
Walter Freeman, 72, let off the hook with probation for violating his child-sex-offender status by not providing a change-of-address, was grateful to the judge for giving him a break. In fact, he was so earnest in intent to follow the terms of the probation that he obeyed them for 35 whole minutes before he got caught violating the order by approaching two kids and offering to buy them ice cream. Poughkeepsie Journal
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Your Daily Jury Duty
[no fair examining the evidence; verdict must be based on mugshot only]
Christopher Walker, 24, Bannockburn, Scotland, could well have completely accidentally sent that woman the obscene video by mobile phone (intended for his girlfriend but misdialed). But it's not for us to weigh the evidence; we have our orders. BBC News
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More Things to Worry About on Saturday
Gourmet alligator head (gator piccata?) in Jacksonville, Fla. (Yep, there's a photo) . . . . . A 16-yr-old girl in India reportedly took The Only Way Out because she was worried about the end of the world from the Large Hadron Collider (but . . but . . maybe that was a cover story for why she's really dead; they're investigating) . . . . . Three photos from "Britain's Dirtiest Flat" (nicotine stains dripping from the walls and a big mound of cigarette butts on the bathroom sink) . . . . . Greenpeace vandals who hit a new coal-fired power plant in Britain were acquitted in a version of "jury nullification," in that jurors thought global warming so serious and imminent that it justifies trashing coal plants . . . . . In Durban, South Africa, three died and two were wounded in a gunfight that started when a man "of Indian descent" taunted a white man at a urinal for having a smaller dick (Seriously) . . . . . In Khandbari, Nepal, Mr. Ramchandra Katuwal, a 24-time loser in the marriage game, said he's quite happy with number 25. Today's Newsrangers: Matt Mirapaul, Sandy Pearlman, Bruce Leiserowitz, Kathryn Wood
Comments 'worry_080913'
The peace icon Mahatma Gandhi was also known for his obsessive hygiene, including reverence for his personal toilet, where he was reported to have done his best thinking. "I learnt [long ago] that a [bathroom] must be as clean as a drawing room," he supposedly wrote. At the major Gandhi ashram-museum in Ahmedabad, they originally removed the toilet as unbecoming, but now, on reflection, they're re-installing it. Daily Telegraph (London)
Comments 'gandhi_toilet'
So, my wife's in a coma, but, hey, she's still my wife, and I have needs
A Wisconsin appeals court affirmed a lower court ruling that a surveillance video of David Johnson having sex with his wife in a nursing home could not be used against him in a rape trial (rape, because she's unable to give consent). A married couple has an expectation of privacy in a closed room, and hence the warrant permitting the camera to be set up was unconstitutional. Associated Press via Wisconsin State Journal
Comments 'coma_video'
District of Calamity: "Thousands" of write-in votes in the primary election last week were bogus
They think the problem was a defective memory cartridge in the Sequoia Voting Systems software, but several local races might have been affected. (However, there's no possible amount of screwing-up that will change where D.C.'s 3 electoral votes go in November.) Washington Post
Comments 'dc_writeins'
Mom, 33, pretends to be her daughter, 15, to fulfill her dream of being a high school cheerleader
Wendy Brown looked a little older, said one staff member at Ashwaubenon High in Green Bay, Wis., but she had the "demeanor" of a high school girl. While the daughter was out in Nevada living with Brown's mother, Brown (who had a history of identity theft) signed up for cheerleading practice and made the squad (although her check to pay for the uniform bounced). Associated Press via Capital Times (Madison)
Comments 'mom_cheerleader'
Update: After a lull, the Valentine, Neb., butt-cheek vandal is back
The still-unknown man apparently took the winter off, but he's back, dropping trou at night at storefronts in the tiny town (pop. 2,650), and pressing his oiled/Vaselined butt against the windows. "During one particularly brazen session, virtually all the windows at a local hotel were imprinted." Associated Press via Yahoo // NOTW M042 (1-27-2008)
Comments 'vaseline_vandal'
Your Daily Loser
Matthew Snell, 19, Ocala, Fla., has several things going against him: His crime was not exactly manly (graffiti), plus not in a high-traffic venue (on cemetery gravestones). Plus, he signed his work with his very distinctive nickname. Plus, his nickname is Roach. Plus, he looks like a bug. Star-Banner (Ocala)
Comments 'roach_snell'
People Whose Sex Lives Are Worse Than Yours
Walter Freeman, 72, let off the hook with probation for violating his child-sex-offender status by not providing a change-of-address, was grateful to the judge for giving him a break. In fact, he was so earnest in intent to follow the terms of the probation that he obeyed them for 35 whole minutes before he got caught violating the order by approaching two kids and offering to buy them ice cream. Poughkeepsie Journal
Comments 'walter_freeman'
Your Daily Jury Duty
[no fair examining the evidence; verdict must be based on mugshot only]
Christopher Walker, 24, Bannockburn, Scotland, could well have completely accidentally sent that woman the obscene video by mobile phone (intended for his girlfriend but misdialed). But it's not for us to weigh the evidence; we have our orders. BBC News
Comments 'christopher_walker'
More Things to Worry About on Saturday
Gourmet alligator head (gator piccata?) in Jacksonville, Fla. (Yep, there's a photo) . . . . . A 16-yr-old girl in India reportedly took The Only Way Out because she was worried about the end of the world from the Large Hadron Collider (but . . but . . maybe that was a cover story for why she's really dead; they're investigating) . . . . . Three photos from "Britain's Dirtiest Flat" (nicotine stains dripping from the walls and a big mound of cigarette butts on the bathroom sink) . . . . . Greenpeace vandals who hit a new coal-fired power plant in Britain were acquitted in a version of "jury nullification," in that jurors thought global warming so serious and imminent that it justifies trashing coal plants . . . . . In Durban, South Africa, three died and two were wounded in a gunfight that started when a man "of Indian descent" taunted a white man at a urinal for having a smaller dick (Seriously) . . . . . In Khandbari, Nepal, Mr. Ramchandra Katuwal, a 24-time loser in the marriage game, said he's quite happy with number 25. Today's Newsrangers: Matt Mirapaul, Sandy Pearlman, Bruce Leiserowitz, Kathryn Wood
Comments 'worry_080913'
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