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18 News of the Weird News of the Weird 18 News of the Weird insistent Leigh, 60, was convicted of spaces. [Newsday, 12-26-02] News of the Weird shooting his disagreeing opponent in the A 51-year-old woman (calling herself stomach with a .38; Frederick, Md., Chutzpah! "Mrs. B") picketed the Roman Catholic December). (2) Don't demand fresh Diocese of Norwich, Conn., on Jan. 15 bacon with your eggs from Steven Deere, A judge in Monroe County, N.Y., denied over an alarming crisis: She believes she 50, when the rest of his family is having Jerold Ponder's application for a handgun has for six years been possessed by from leftover pork (Deere was charged with permit, but Ponder is appealing that one to 19 demons, yet the church (six shooting his stepson with a 9 mm pistol; decision, even though he is currently in dioceses in three states) will not assign Pittsburgh, December). (3) Don't insult jail charged with the shooting death of his her an exorcist, which she says is Amanda Hicks' baby (The 20-year-old pregnant girlfriend. Ponder's best-case- "unpardonable neglect." Among her and two girlfriends allegedly punched, scenario defense is that it was just an signs: writhing, speaking in tongues, and kicked, kneed, stripped and burned the accident, occurring while he and the having her eyes move "without my man, and raped him with two different girlfriend were target-shooting with a permission." [Newsday-AP, 1-15-03] objects; Panama City, Fla., December). rifle, and that that incident is not relevant [Frederick News Post, 12-10-02] to whether he is safety-conscious enough Following a religious experience, [Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, 12-27-02] to carry a pistol. [Democrat and Michael Braithwaite of the mountain [Panama City News Herald, 12-25-02] Chronicle, 1-4-03] village of Putney, Ky., recently converted his Love World shop (selling vibrators Compelling Explanations According to the prosecutor at the and other porn paraphernalia) to Mike's Waterloo, Iowa, theft trial of Bradley Place (selling Bibles and other Christian - In January, a judge at London's Old Steven Bailey, 21, in December, not only items). (However, according to a Bailey released 31-time recidivist Mark did Bailey steal a day's bank deposit for December report in the San Francisco Patterson, 42, after his 32nd conviction, the Hardee's restaurant where he worked Bay Guardian, a 31-year-old government for burglary, because Patterson claimed and leave town, but after he was arrested lawyer has developed a side business that that he needed drug rehabilitation so he and jailed, he wrote a letter to the may bridge both of Braithwaite's lines: could fulfill his calling as a poet. (His Hardee's manager saying he was sorry The lawyer manufactures and sells high- subsequent ode to the judge, in part: "I've but that he never did get his final quality, silicone dildos in the shapes of now been set free / in a blaze of publicity paycheck, and could it please be mailed religious icons, such as Moses, Satan and / so that everyone can see / my great to him. [Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier, a nun, at prices of $54 to $65 each. One ability.") [The Independent, 1-4-03, 1-6- 12-4-02] sex shop owner in San Francisco's 03] freewheeling Castro district said he Wrong Place, Wrong Time might stock the "Jackhammer Jesus" - Ayub Ali Khan, 36, who was held in a model, but that his Buddhist customers Brooklyn, N.Y., jail for 13 months after Ron Landon, 32, was captured by police would be offended at the Buddha model.) being detained as suspicious in the in Belleville, Ill., in December after he [Chicago Tribune, 11-27-02] [San aftermath of Sept. 11, told a Washington ran through a Lone Oak Farm pasture to Francisco Bay Guardian, 12-25-02] Post reporter in January, "I feel I am the avoid arrest for several traffic tickets. real victim of (Sept. 11). Just look at how Landon tried to hide in a shallow, water- Edward Blaine, 61, who served 20 years much my family and I suffered." Khan filled ditch, but several horses wandered in prison for a 1963 bank robbery, was deported to Hyderabad, India, after over to take a closer look at him, drawing apparently is becoming even less pleading guilty to credit card fraud (using officers' attention to the ditch. And at the competent with age, as he was arrested in and selling fake credit cards and other January trial of alleged mobster Billy January and charged with robbing the bogus documents). [Washington Post, 1- Rinick in Philadelphia, a narcotics agent Union Bank & Trust branch in Port 10-03] described how he came to arrest Rinick at Royal, Va. Police said Blaine fled with the home of his boss Joey Merlino. The the stash while $100 bills were falling out - Richard Hobbs, who solicits tips in agent had tracked Rinick to the upstairs of his pockets, and then he realized as he public by making balloon sculptures for part of Merlino's house and then, feigning arrived at his getaway car that he had children, filed a lawsuit against secrecy, playfully whispered to Merlino's locked the keys inside. He grabbed a log Westchester County, N.Y., for denying 4-year-old daughter, sitting on a bed, to smash the window but tossed it away him the right to work the crowd at the "Where's Billy?" The girl innocently in frustration, only to have it hit Emmett county's Playland Amusement Park. In pointed to the room across the hall, where Lowe's truck, thus angering Lowe, who the course of defending the lawsuit, the Rinick was hiding under a bed. grabbed a gun and chased Blaine for 150 county discovered that Hobbs had been [Belleville News-Democrat, 12-3-02] yards. In a struggle, Blaine shot at Lowe convicted in 1978 and 1982 of sexual [Philadelphia Inquirer, 1-15-03] but hit himself in the leg, just before abuse of children. However, Hobbs Lowe shot Blaine in the same leg. persisted with the lawsuit, and in “The strangest and weirdest things [Washington Times, 1-17-03] December, federal judge John Martin in life happen naturally - we just ordered the two parties to settle among have to accept them for what they News of the Weird Advice themselves the issue of which areas of the park are commercial and which are truly are... weird and strange!” If you ever run into these people, here's traditional park space, in that Hobbs what to do: (1) If you're playing apparently has a constitutional right to Rob McConnell, Publisher, horseshoes with Fred William Leigh, and practice his craft in traditional park The ‘X’ Chronicles Newspaper he says it's a ringer, it's a ringer (The