Rodger’

Pilot gets failing grade in Fear of Flying 1

“In May, an unidentified co-

ilot on a Danish Maersk air-
ines flight from Birmingham,
England, to Milan, Italy, with
49. passengers aboard had an
anxiety attack over France
because he was afraid of
heights, He later resigned.

In August at the Loyal, Wis.,
Corn Fest, Steven Schiller, 24,
and: Kevin Froba, 25, won.

_« prizes at the familiar strength
- game in which a contestant
slams a mallet onto a device that
causes a weight to ascend and
ring a bell. However, they later
‘complained to the game opera-
tor about the quality of their
prizes, and an altercation

* ensued. Scliller and Froba were
hospitalized after the operator
hit:each of thern in the head

“atest © Pastal _ Service-
Firearms _News: In August in

“New: Egypt, N.J., letter-sorter..
“44, was”

lohnson, '
arrested after a search of his
booby-trapped' home revealed
explosives, gas grenades, - 85
guns and thousands of rounds ©
of :ammunition. And | in
Pateison, ‘NJ., two days later,
Postal Service mechanic Danny
‘Isku.was arrested for shooting
iis supervisor in the hand; and
‘news reports indicated Isku was
a ‘member of a Paterson postal
workers? en ‘club.

In ‘September, a man .was

crusted to'death on a stairway .

at the'Sammis Real Estate-and

Insurance office in Huntington, ..

.N-Y.; in the process of stealing
the office’s 600-pound safe; he

apparently. ‘violated the cardinal -
‘rule

. of stairway-safe-hauling by
standing on a step lower than
the one the safe is on. (And it
tuimed out the safe was empty.),

(25. YOQFSece
«selling and
servicing
volkswagens kere
‘on the North

. Shore. the
Personal touch
makes such a

And in Tucson, Ariz., a man
intending to commit suicide in
September is still alive. He
turned on the gas in his trailer
home and sat down to go in
peace, but then decided to
smoke a last cigarette. An explo-
sion followed, and he was hos-
pitalized with first- and second-

degree burns,
eee

Roger Schlup filed a law-
suit against a veterinarian in
Sydney, Australia, for about
$200,000 because the ver
allegedly failed to fix the bro-
ken leg of Schlup’s macaw and
even ‘broke the other one.
Macaws can mate only while
standing at add angles on
perches, and Schlup figures

“Nelson” is done as a procre-
ator,

In Chicago, transportation
analyst Steve Lewins, using
stationery of his employer, the
investment firm Gruntal &
Co,, said he had information
on alleged federal government

Wednesday, October 16, 1996 ~ North Shore News - 43.

complicity in the crash of TWA
Flight 800 and the Challenger
explosion and said he has had
to deal with death threats

against him by having a “killer ;

parrot” guard his home.
eee

The Des Moines Register
reported in July, that among,
the treasures turned up at the

i

excavation ‘deg

boat Bertrand,

the Missourt

Omaha, Neb., in 18657 "
four pocketknives with g
rivets that contained ex; Ne
pornographic photos, | ‘hey:
are evidence, said conservator
Jeanne- Harold; « ‘that “people~
have not changed much i

131 years.

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