Chuck’s Hand-Picked Overnight Weird News for Tuesday
Correction to this week's News of the WeirdThe Ocala (Fla.) Star-Banner accused school board candidate Bernard LeCorn of not having college degrees from the institutions he claimed, and News of the Weird reported that in M078, 10-5-2008. Subsequently, the Star-Banner corrected its story. LeCorn does have the degrees he claims. The error was made by school personnel who initially responded incorrectly to the Star-Banner investigator. Star-Banner
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"Fool for a client" whips prosecutors, now wants state payout
Career criminal Robert Aldrich got illegally stopped by Milton, Mass., police officers (and therefore the search evidence they found was tossed out), but prosecutors went ahead, anyway, because Aldrich was acting as his own lawyer, and prosecutors figured they were smarter than Aldrich and would slam-dunk him. Two different judges, though, ruled for the "fool." Now Aldrich has found some way-obscure 1911 state law that seemingly entitles him to $66k compensation. Boston Globe
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Your daily non-sequitur from Homeland Security
New York artist Jerilea Zempel was detained at the Maine border driving back from Canada, and it looks like a routine search, right up to the point where the agent grabs a sketch of a funny-looking SUV, takes a meeting with a supervisor, and declares, "We think you're engaged in some kind of copyright infringement." Press Republican (Plattsburgh, N.Y.)
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Your Daily Jury Duty
[no fair examining the evidence; verdict must be based on mugshot only]
Randy Lewis, 43, and Paula Evans, 38, Blountville, Tenn. (and they weren't even the ones behind the wheel) (and it's cheating if you sneak down to the end of this post to see Randy's whole mug shot, so don't cheat; you're bigger than that) Times-News (Kingsport, Tenn.)
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More Things to Worry About on Tuesday
It's official: Fat people, particularly, face the buffet while they're eating, take tables closer to it, and don't much care what else is on the table once they fix on a dish they like . . . . . Slow news day: How about those chastity belts for male goats? . . . . . The Georgia Supreme Court ruled that a transsexual politician did not defraud the voters by failing to disclose that she used to be a man . . . . . At Dallas's last-resort hospital (Parkland Memorial), a guy died after 19 hrs in the waiting room (164 people ahead of him) . . . . . Another one of those "why isn't he dead yet?" blood-alcohol readings (.491). Today's Newsrangers: Joe Littrell, Rae Augenstein, Emmitt Dove
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