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Drinking and

dunking don’t mix

Bab Mackin
Contributing Writer
SOME Deep Cove
residents had unex-
pected. company
Sunday merning.

Two men, whose canoes
capsized in Indian Arm,
struggied to shore sind ended
up on the dock of a water-
front house.

Both were without life-
sackets and had been ata party
urinking alcohol.

“Onc of them laid down in
the canoe and that’s when it
toppled,” explained North
Shore Lifeboat Society’s
Michelle Abramson.

Abramson and fellow vol-

unteer Robin Overbye were.

called out at 1:41 a.m. They
arrived in the Deep Cove

tifeboat at 1:56 a.m. to find
one man laying in the foyer of
the house in # blanket and the
other in a shower.

Both were _ severely
hypothermic and in need of
medical attention.

The home owners loaned
the men dry clothes. They
were taken to the Deep Cove
lifeboat and transferred to the
Coast Guard Cutter Osprey
where they were treated with
blankets and heat packs.

They were transferred back
to land where ambulances
trans rted them to hospital.

ramson said — she
received a phone call larer
from one of the men, thank-
ing the volunteers for their
action.

It was the first call of the
new year for the Deep Cove
lifeboat, Abrar:son said.

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THE Loudon Daily Telegraph
reported in’ March that
Russian soldiers in Chechnya

had sold off at least 100 of

their colleagues to the other
side tor as little as $17 each.

The Chechens in turn ran-
som the Russian soldiers back
to their families.

World women's — chess
champion Zsuzsa Polgar, 29,
was scheduled to give birta
this month in New York City
and so had been permitted to
reschedule her required title
defence from April to June.

However, Polgar said that
meant she might have to
breastfeed her baby during
the match, though = she

thought it would be more of

a distraction to her than to
her opponent.
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Sand Springs, Oklahoma
— Deputy Sheriff Elbert
Fuller shot and killed prison-
er Clyde McShan in February
after McShan pulled a knife
on him in a squad car, causing
Fuller to lose control, run up
an embankment and flip over.

Fuller, who was hanging
upside down in the car and
seat-belted in, managed to
reach his gun and shoot
McShan before MceShan
could stab him. Fuller was
able to reach for his gun only
because the car’s airbag failed
to inflate.

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Horseshoe Bend, Arkansas
—~ Ata routine traffic stop
Donnie Todd, 17, presented
a driver’s licence in which
Arkansas was spelled
“Arkansa” and slightly mis-
printed.

He was cited for suspicion
of forgery. However, officials
said the licence was real,
issued by a Sharp County

- office whose computer was

malfunctioning.

The big loser was Francis
McCabe, 19, who pleaded
guilty in February to forging
driver’s licences, a crime
detected because he had
inadvertently used a Sharp

County-issucd licence as a
model for his own bogus
licences.

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Stravtord, Connecticut ~-
Joseph Kubie Sr, 93, was
hospitalized last month after
he tried to punch in an addi-
tional belt hole by hammer-
ing a pointy-nosed bullet
through the belt.

It fired, ricocheting off a
table and hitting him in the
neck, (In the fast evo years,
Kubie also accidentally cut
through his leg, to the bone in
a chainsaw mishap and set a
small brush fire that raged
nearly out of control and
threatened neighbours’ hous-
es.)

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Monson, Maine —
William Ranta, 25, and
Russell LaBlanc, 31, were
hospitalized recently when
their private road ritual went
bad.

The two pals had a tradi-
tion, when their vehicles met
on two-lane roads, to switch
lanes and pass cach other on
the left.

However, this time Ranta
spotted a truck followin
LaBlane’s lane and trie
call off the pass, but LaBlane
was slow on the u,rtake, and
Ranta hit him.

According to a_ recent
Chicago Sun-Times report, a
1998 National Institutes of
Health surgery triai at the
University of Colorado
experimented with 40
Parkinson’s disease patients,
20 of whom received fetal tis-
sue implanted in their brains
and 20 of whom had four
holes drilled in their heads as
placebos but nothing
implanted.

Some medical ethicists
draw a distinction between
giving patients placebo sugar
pills and drilling holes in the'r

eads, but apparently none of
the 20 was adversely affected.
However, the trial was
delayed when a couple of the
real-implant patients died.

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