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BIZARRE NEWS - Wednesday, July 30, 2008
"Spanning the globe for the weird...strange...and stupid."
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Greetings fellow Bizarros:
There is a right way and a wrong way to do things.
First you have a guy in Bonita Springs, Florida who was
pinched stealing change from a fountain in a shopping
center.
43-year-old Laslo Mujzer was charged with petty theft
after a shopper at the Coastland Center mall reported him
for allegedly taking change from an outdoor fountain.
The money in the fountain is intended for the Habitat for
Humanity of Collier County, but apparently Laslo didn't
have quite enough for his morning latte.
Then you have Craig Davidson of Phoenix, Arizona. For the
last 25 years Craig has taken a morning run just for the
exercise, but he's never so focused on his run that he
doesn't stop to pick up loose change on the street.
Since 1983 his morning constitutional has earned him, in
addition to a healthy heart, $8,100 in free money. That
might not sound like much, but Davidson says he has paid
for a Hawaiian vacation for himself and his wife with
money others overlooked.
Bizarrely,
Lewis
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+--------------- Bizarre Historical Trivia ----------------+
100 years ago....
Only 14 percent of the homes in the United States had a
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There were only 8,000 cars in the US and only 144 miles of
paved roads.
Alabama, Mississippi, Iowa, and Tennessee were each more
heavily populated than California. With a mere 1.4 million
residents, California was only the twenty-first most
populous state in the Union.
The tallest structure in the world was the Eiffel Tower.
The average wage in the U.S. was twenty-two cents an hour.
The average U.S. worker made between $200 and $400 per
year.
Sugar cost four cents a pound. Eggs were fourteen cents a
dozen. Coffee cost fifteen cents a pound.
Most women only washed their hair once a month and used
borax or egg yolks for shampoo.
Drive-by-shootings - in which teenage boys galloped down
the street on horses and started randomly shooting at
houses, carriages, or anything else that caught their
fancy - were an ongoing problem in Denver and other
cities in the West.
Plutonium, insulin, and antibiotics hadn't been discovered
yet. Scotch tape, crossword puzzles, canned beer, and iced
tea hadn't been invented.
Some medical authorities warned that professional seam-
stresses were apt to become sexually aroused by the
steady rhythm of the sewing machine's foot pedals. They
recommended slipping bromide - which was thought to
diminish sexual desire - into the woman's drinking water.
Marijuana, heroin, and morphine were all available over the
counter at corner drugstores. According to one pharmacist,
"Heroin clears the complexion, gives buoyancy to the mind,
regulates the stomach and the bowels, and is, in fact, a
perfect guardian of health."
Coca-Cola contained cocaine instead of caffeine.
There were about 230 reported murders in the U.S. annually.
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-------- Mom's postcards on the way 26 years late --------
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - An Anchorage, Alaska, woman who
received a couple's postcards to their son 26 years after
they were sent said they've been forwarded to the intended
recipient. Teresa Childs said she was contacted by James
Jigliotti, 54, shortly after media reports of the post-
cards, which Olga Jigliotti mailed to her then 29-year-old
son's Anchorage address while she and her husband, John,
visited Italy, the Anchorage Daily News reported. James
Jigliotti, now of Atlanta, said he is more likely to
treasure the items now than when he was supposed to
receive them in March 1982. Olga Jigliotti died March 22,
2007, and John Jigliotti died March 23, 2008. "You can
never have enough of that stuff," James Jigliotti said
Sunday. "It trickles away, more or less."
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-------- German nudists complain of Polish peepers ---------
BERLIN - Patrons of a German nude beach on the Polish
border say beachgoers on the other side of the border
come to stare at the exposed skin. Ines Muller, a German
naturist, said Poles come fully clothed to the beach on
their side of the border and stare at the nude swimmers
and sunbathers, The Sun reported Monday. "You feel like
an ape in the zoo. The Poles come with their binoculars,
stare and swear," Muller said. Beach patrons said there
used to be a fence separating the German and Polish
beaches, but it was torn down as part of a 2007 agreement
between the countries. "It's a nudist beach. It's terrible
that the Poles come over dressed and stare," said German
Elke Bernholz. Some Poles said the proximity of the two
beaches annoys them as much as it does the Germans. "It's
horrible -- we would never bathe naked, we are Catholic,"
said one beach-going Pole from the town of Swinemunde.
-------- Man, 80, reprimanded for escalator run --------
FARNHAM, England - An 80-year-old former Olympic hurdler
said a Farnham, England, store has threatened to ban him
if he is caught running up a down escalator again. Peter
Hildreth, who represented Britain at the Olympics in 1952,
1956 and 1960, said he used to train for his sport by
running up the wrong escalators, and decided to try out
his old training regime as his 80th birthday approached,
The Daily Mail reported. "I started doing it last month
because I was turning 80. People did not see me do it to
start with, I must have done it three or four times," he
said. Hildreth said he was finally caught by the head of
the women's underwear department at the top of the
escalator and was given a stern talking-to by store
manager Graham Duerden, who said the elderly man was
violating health and safety rules and setting a bad
example for young people. The former athlete said he has
had his fill of his old pastime. "I am not going to do
it anymore," Hildreth said. "My wife will be annoyed
about me doing it, she does not know until now."
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------- Gallery owner cuffed because of nude man -------
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - The owner of a Florida art gallery
is facing charges for allegedly breaking city laws by
having a nude man inside his gallery while alcohol was
being served. Gallery owner Bill Schramm 46, and model,
Joshua M. Culotta, 26, were taken into police custody
Friday at the Erotic Lounge in St. Petersburg, Fla., the
St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times reported. The incident began
when police showed up after getting a complaint about a
large penis sculpture outside the gallery, the newspaper
said. The Times said police went back to the gallery later
in the night and raided the building. Officials said they
found Culotta inside the building, hanging in an aerial
harness from the ceiling with his genitals exposed.
Schramm and Culotta were taken into police custody and
Schramm is facing charges of battery on a law enforcement
officer and violating the city ordinance, the Times said.
Sgt. Joe Collins said police are allowed to enter a
building with a liquor license without probable cause.
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> READER COMMENTS <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
Lewis, I have a solution that can help our hurting airlines.
First, fire all male and female flight attendants. They no
longer serve food or drinks on flights so they are useless.
Instead, hire strippers to serve the business men of the
world drinks. We wouldn't have to pay them because they
would earn plenty in tips. We would charge them a ten or
twenty percent fee just for working the planes. The guys
will be eager to fly again for the show and drinks. This
in turn would boost travel sales and would save the airline
industry. Why do I always have to think of everything?
-Sincerely, Bill Clinton
[I thought I had deleted you from the list!]
Lewis, Phronemophobia, that's what my ex-wife suffered from!
Thank you for putting a name to it. -Terry
[Are you sure it wasn't just a need for sexual satisfaction?]
I just got to reading the July 5th edition titled, "What do
you do with an idiot?" Well, lots of people elected him
President twice! -Pat
What do you mean "if global warming is real."? It has been
going on for 10,000 years, since the end of the last great
ice age. Most of the United States was covered in ice at
one time. Now some scientist studying sun spots think we
may be entering a new ice age. It irritates me that some
people say mankind is at fault, I guess the cavemen built
their cook fires to high and started the cycle. -Russell
[Well, Ice Age or global warming...the global population
is going to take quite a dip (number-wise) if and when the
climate changes dramatically.]
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