2. A 73-year-old Milwaukee woman has lost her suit against the
local Catholic Church, after an electronic scoreboard fell on her
during a bingo game in 1990. Mary Verdev was asking for $90,000 in
damages, claiming that since the incident she experiences
spontaneous orgasms, sometimes in "clusters." B-b-b-b-bingo!
3. It's good work if you can get it: Santa Clara County is
looking for someone to help them grow marijuana. The city of San
Jose, California has mandated that the county Medical Cannabis Club
must grow its own pot on site to fill prescriptions for medical
patients. The job doesn't pay much, but the perks are great!
4. A couple in New Brunswick, Canada, are cleaning up after a
large amount of what appeared to be human waste fell from the sky.
The couple believes that the waste was dumped by a passing
airplane, but air traffic control claims that no commercial flight
was in the area at the time.
5. Several weeks after returning from Peru, a San Francisco woman
was understandably alarmed to find worms crawling out through holes
in her skin. According to the New England Journal of Medicine, the
unidentified woman was infected with larvae from the botfly, which
matured inside her body and emerged through sores on her legs. She
didn't know what the sores were until "she saw a creature starting
to crawl out."
6. A company picnic tug-of-war game turned ugly this week when
one of the contestants had his hand ripped off. Stanley Harris was
the "anchor" man on a team of 25 people, and had wrapped the rope
around his wrist for a better grip.
7. In Clearwater, Florida, a 70-year-old man was killed while
sunbathingin a lounge chair at the beach, when a bulldozer ran over
him. [Hey, we asked him to move...]
8. In an article entitled "How to Repair Food," Elaine Grimm
brings us these helpful hints... If you've overcooked fried or
scrambled eggs, keep on cooking them, and use in place of
hard-boiled eggs. And if you have some sour milk on your hands,
don't worry. You can still serve it to your guests. The author
claims that adding 2 teaspoons of baking soda will make the milk
just fine again.