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During an argument, the wife of Pero Toljij fled to a neighbor’s home, but Toljij chased her with a bazooka he happened to have on hand, fired at her, missed, and hit the couple’s own house. He was subsequendy arrested. Massapequa Park, New York — four men, ages 19 to 21, intending to follow a recipe in the Underground Steroid Handbook, failed to wait patiently until the Drano- NEWS OF THE WEIRD like concoction had reached a satisfactory pH Sevel to make it milder. The four were hospitalized with bad internal burns, and the concoction also burned rescuing patice officers when the four men vomited on them. eee Santa Maria, Texas — Luis Martinez Jr., 25, was recently stabbed in the neck with a broken bottle by his uncle, allegedly to punish Martinez for not sharing his bag of Frito’s. And a 20-year-old man was hospitalized in Oklahoma after encouraging his friend, Jason Heck, to killa millipede with a .22-caliber rifle. 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