26 — Friday, August 16, 1996 ~ North Shore News A NEWS OF THE , WEIRD THE U.S. Supreme Court - ‘rejected the. claim’ made. in 1992. by Ms. Bobby June Griggs that South Carolina, Electric and Gas Co. owes her "for a nervous. breakdown she “suffered. ..” Griggs entered a rice: recipe . cook-off .but became “stressed and had. to seek psy- chiatric help .when the com- pany, against. her wishes, sub- ‘sequently..- published’ ‘the: recipes of ail contest entrants. * The: Footbill Leader nevis- “paper. (La” Crescenta, « Calif.) “recently: profiled ® local man ,”- “Laidovit “Panman” Salka, 77, make ‘ave to sleep in it”. “- prominent for.having waged 2 -28-year war against his neigh- hi drugs in’ they started Says‘are necessary ‘the drug fun “who-he? says’ manufac: --”.- And in’ Dallasy, Travis Crabtree, 15, has been indict- ed for murder, done in by a list. of instructions he had written to himself for a rob- bery, including a reminder to kill the victim, which he allegedly did. And finally, in. January in Texas, Jonathan Blaine Downey, 26, was sentenced to’ 10 years in prison for assembling fertilizer bombs to kill his enemizs, done in when police found his list of 17 targets. Sunrise, Florida —- Police Sgt. Mark Byers has filed a lawsuit against = Jane Liberatore, a woman whom he rescued in the line of duty from an abusive husband. Byers suffered a perma- nently ‘warped hand by . smashing, through a door after the husband had killed Liberatore’s boyfriend and was about to attack her, and . “wants compensation because Liberatore’s immorality put him in jeopardy. ” '.,Said Byers’ lawyer, “When ; you cheat on your’ husband and ‘create the potential - for _murder (and) a police officer is injured as a result; you make your own. bed, and you. eo 8 Charleston, West. Virginia — Diana: J. Nagy has filed a lawsuit against: the manufac: turer: of the golf: cart: from” which her husband -feil to his garbage truck, bur failed to zscape frum the truck soon enough and was compacted with the driver's first load. He survived and was cap- tured, but the garbage-haul- ing company had _ previously said no ane could survive a compacting. a@ee Escondido, California — A wrecking ball came loose from a crane traveling on an death after he had been drink- i ing during .2° tournament at’ the Berry’: Hills «Country «McGuinness, whe» ‘flunked out of the University ; of. New Mexico * medical.” inness:said his ‘dis- ab ne is very anx-: ious when he takes exams and onsequentiy doesn’t do very - 1] om them. Con! “Bob: Ringewold, 43, was - JV driving >with? a friend- in’: Michigan | when the “roof of his car.was dented by'a five": Less °° Laborious:- Two Californi patent recently. for.a golf club that will fire‘a bail up 0-250 yards: by “detonation” of cad. (The'club is not éxpect- ‘ed ‘to be approved for tourna-. ment play.) en ‘And in Ay man: cbrained:a_ patent for; a. "cup. that. goss inside. golf “cr hele“and! periscopes up. after °° the: ball goes-in so-that the, _Ssgolfer dees not have to. bend | "down to retrieve it. Technology to Make Golf. a 1 Cin fact, it-had smen obtained a. an. xplosive: cliarge: in: the club. 1,2 Houston’ “ pound sucker. fish“that fell ‘om the'sky. 2 fallen from the talons of an eagle that conidn’t . hold. it, - and’ Ringewold took it home.) » “AcMebraska man stole a :'10-ton ‘tractor’ from a° con- struction iot and, as a. police - cruiser. blocked his exit, mere- ly drove. directly over the'car, ‘-erushing it. (There were no_ injuries.) 0 -And in-a major apartment “renovation: in “Baltimore, a, construction worker acciden- - tally drove his tractor ‘off of: ‘the fifth floor. 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