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THE Sleepwalking Defense to
homicide finally made its way
south of the border in February
after having achieved success in
a famous case in Canada 10
years ago.

Phoenix inventor Scott
Louis Falater said he was sound
asleep during the time he
stabbed his wife 44 times and
during the time neighbors
watched him hold his wite’s
head underwater in a backyard
swimming. pool. Just as | the
Canadian defendant had sup-
posedly driven 14 miles to his
mother-in-law’s home while
asleep and beat her with a tire
iron, Falater managed to pat on
gloves, kill the woman, bandage
a cut, and dispose of his bloody
clothes, all while asleep. Not
impossible, said an expert on
sleep disorders.

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WEIRD

researcher Fiona Hunter, who
studied penguins’ mating habits
for five years, reports that some
females apparently allow male
strangers to mate with them in
exchange for a few nest-build-
ing, stones, thus providing what
Hunter believes is the first
observed animal prostitution.
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back of the female’s regular
mate, and in a few instances,
after the sex act, johns gave the
females additional stones as sort
of a tip.

Duluth, Minnesota —
David Samarzia, 44, who won a
$650,000 judgment against the
Redeemer Lutheran Church as
damages for being molested as a
kid by former pastor Daniel
Reeb, told reporters in that
since the church cannot pay the
judgement, hz most likely would
take over the house of worship
himself as payment and turn it
into a place to help other sex
abuse victims.

Following the August death
of 122-ycar-old French woman

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Jeanne Calment, Canadian
Marie-Louise Febronic
Meilleur, 116, was named by
the Guinness: Book of Records as
the world’s oldest. person.

In an interview with the
Associated Press on that occa-
sion, Meilleur said her hobby
was finding a girlfriend for her
81-year-old son at the nursing
home where they both reside.

Anaheim Hills, California —
Howard and Jean Garber
announced that this spring they
would have a grandchild despite
their daughter Julie’s having
passed away a ycar earlier at age
28 from leukemia.

Julie had harvested 12 eggs
before undergoing radiation
treatment, and after her death,
her parents selected a father and
surrogate mother, who
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Ar his crial in Fort Worth,
Texas, William Lee Monroe,
28, admitted he stole a gas
stove from an apartment but
denied responsibilin’ for the
resulting ruptured gas line,
explosion and fire that sent
two people to the hospital and
injured three others.

According to his lawyer,
Monroe is too dumb to know
that an open gas line is dan-
gerous.

“Stupid is as stupid does,”
said the lawyer. (Guilty any-
way, said the jury.)

Beloit, Wisconsin — A 24-
year-old woman was charged
with battery for allegedly hit-
ting her husband with a plant

stand, sending him to the hos-
pital for six stitches. ;

According to pulice, the
couple had been married for
two months and feught fre-
quently about sex. That night,
she was angry that he had
retired for the evening after
only four episodes.

John Kieser, 45, was cun-
victed in Philadelphia of car-
rying 4 Weapon on an airliner.

While a passenger ona US |
Airways flight in August
1997, Kieser had uttered the.
word “hijack,” which is ille-"
gal to do, but protested later
that he was just responding
to someone who = had
addressed him by . saying,

“Hi, Jack.”

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bag revealed a flare gun “and
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