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after a. non-event Sunday
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A flare sighted by a
Dollacton Highway driver
rompted the Deep Cove
jicboat into action around
10:54 p.m. near Boulder
Island by Belcarra Park.

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Society coxswains Paul
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crewmen Connor Deualdson
and = Jamic Motherwell
searched the area for 90 min-
utes and found ne clues.
Flare sightings are on the
increase, accord ing to Watt.
Red/orange flares should
only be used in emergencies.
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Friday, July 9, 1999 - North Shore News — 47

rews of the weird

Inmates recycling

ACCORDING to a March
repart in the Santa Cruz
(Cif}) Sratinel, cockroach
expert David George Gordon
(in town for a local exhibi-
tion) called the pests “intelli-
gent, hardworking and fastidi-
ous groomers” that are
responsible, especially in’ the
tropics, for recycling dead ant-
mal matter.

Gordon ‘as authored a
bug-recipe c.okbook, which
touts crickets for their calci-
um, termites for iron and
grasshoppers for protein,

Qag

Philip Racicot was arrested
in Norwich, Conn., in April
for carrying an unlicensed
gun; he had called attention
to himself when, trying to
hide the gun in his car, he
shot himself in the butrocks.

And in May, a 17-year-old
boy identified as Luka .
was captured by police
Bydgas: Poland, after aa
assaule; Lukasz slowed down
considerably after he shot
himself in the foo: during the
chase.

And an unidentified 17-
year-old boy, fleeing police in
San Francisca in February
after vandalizing a construc-
tion site, accidentaily shot
himself to death with a sawed-
off shotgun he was trying to
hide in his car.

Qo

Gary Patton and two 17-
year-olds were arrested in
Grand junction, Colo., in
January and charged with
robbing a Norwest Bank
branch. They were exposed
when one teenager sent a pair
of pants to the laundry with-
out checking the pockets, one
of which, according to police,
contained the trio's holdup
note (“Put the money in the
bae aud don’t say a word or I
will kill you”).

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Travis Black, 29, went on
the lam on June 1 in Fort
Lauderdale, Fla., just as his
trial for aggravated assault was
getdng started.

The trial wene on without
him, and the next day, despite
the empty chair at the defense
table, the jury found him not
guilty. (He mrned himself in

ont Vill
Charae. Hoge

on June 4 and at press time
was in jail facing a contempt
of court charge.) help when taking national
placement exams that hun-
dreds are injured and thou-
sands are arrested yearly (with
13,000 expelled in this year’s
riots in May).

And (34) the ego-driv
to clean up six trees in bad guy who goes on a
on which had been hanging national “TV talk show while
ihe amputated left feet of oon the lam from criminal

nily convicted robbers, charges, thus making it casy

bited as crime deterrents. for police or parole officers to
find him, as Willie fobnson,
22, did in Mav, appearing as a
drag queen on The Jerry
Springer Shaw while wanted in

QO
In January, preparing for a
joyous festival ar the end of
Rainadan, i
Taliban gov

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Fecal Ordnance: = The
director of the sewer system in
Tegucigalpa, Honduras, told
reporters in June that the
city’s pipes may burst by win-
ter from the gases released by
the backup caused by last
year’s Hurricane Mitch, thus
potentially showering the city
swith waste. ;

And neither local officials
nor the FAA is certain yet who
has been causing the dozen or
so instances of tecal bombard-
ment of homes in and around
Salt Lake City, Utah, since
Apnil; owners of the houses hit
by the gobs of thick, raw
sewage initially blamed airlin-
ers but now suspect an air-
borne vandal in a smalier
plane or somcone on the
ground using a catapult.

Q00

Adding to the list of stories
that were formerly weird but
which now occur with such
frequency that they must be
retired from circulation:

(23) The annual student
cheating riots in Bangladesh,
first reported in News of the
Weird in 1988, in which stu-

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