ACCORDING to interviews conducted by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the last deathbed utterance of tavern owner Anthony J. Golembiewski, 83, was “one, six, nine, five.” Family members were puz- zled, but one decided to buy 4 Jottery ticket: with the num- bers. The ticket won $23,506. Said Golembiewski's widow, “Andy, you son ef a bitch, you even paid for vour own funeral.” The Oregon Supreme Court has ruled unanimously thar Perry A. Lang, a white man, was entitled to worker compensation. damages, despite the fact chat his on- the-job injury came from being punched in the fice by a black co-worker whom Lang had just racially insulted. The court said a sensitive colleague is just one of che “nyyriad of risks” workers face. And in July, the Hawaii Supreme Court took a similar position in upholding a law defining on-the-job illness to include stress that is caused by being disciplined for poor work, eee Brother Eric Metivier, 28, has been charged with aggra- vated assault for allegedly stabbing Brother Fernard Bremaud, 71, several times in NEWS OF THE WEIRD Holland, Manitoba. During a televised visit to a nursing home in Tokyo, Japan’s Emperor Akihito, try- ing to pick up the game of paper-scissors-rock, lost to resident Toshiko Arai, who showed scissors. Thus, by house custom, the emperor was obliged to give the woman a shoulder massage. eee Upper Darby, Pennsylvania — Mayor Daniel F. Devlin, 51, defeated for re-election the month — before, was charged with rol-ding a local bank of $1,500 by claiming to have a bomb. Three days carlier, Mayor Craig Johnson, 41, of Snow in office for permitting one of the town’s police cars to be used in pornographic photos that were distributed on the Internet. Accarding to police inves- tigators, Johnson had also promised the pornographers access toa NASA facility on nearby Vailops Island, Virgina, but no photos fram that site were found The Nebraska, whose football teani was On its way co becom: ing national co-champions, announced it was awarding its first-ever, full athletic scholar- ship to Jennifer Daugherty for its women’s bowling team. The president of Poland's baseball industry association, defending — baseball bars against calls that they be made illegal since they were being used in so many street mug: gings: “No bascbali player in University of Poland would use a bat for any purpose other than play- ing the game. The relation- ship between a baseball player and his bat is something sacred.” ees Awni Hasham, 58, a furni- ture company owner in Gaza Cir, explaining to The Hashington Post why he takes seriously the rumors that Isract had introduced chewing gum that had been laced with hormones to make people so horny that Palesainian society would be disrupted: “If thes can puta spaceship on Mars, they can make sex chewing gum.” eee Serge Engambe, a previ- ously unemployed — college graduate who signed on with former Congolese military dictator Denis Sassou- Nguesso, explaining why he accepted a militia job with an organization widely thought to butcher its enemies: “This is a unique chance in my lite, in a country where voung (college) graduates are not a priority of the government.” New Porterville, Calitornia — Mother Shellie Lee. 20, who claimed she was unaware she was pregnant, describing the surprise bieth of her son: “| was sitting there (on a toi- feti when all of a sudden, a head came out. It just came out, bam! [t slid right out and was hanging on my ieg.” New Zealand researcher Ingrid Visser's uvo-vear study of killer whales, released in New Scientist magazine, revealed that orcas cat stingrays but only after tossing them around among them- selves, Frisbee-like. This strange behavior is apparently done so the whales can position the stingrays im such a way as w avoid the stingers when they bite down. She said she once witnessed + Lucky last gasp a lottery windfall two whales binge on 18 stingrays ina six-hour period. Ar the Santiago zoo in Chile, it rook four hours’ work with a crane to lift Protea, 9, a three-ton female elephant, out of a moat fol- iowing’ a mating accident caused by a frisky but incom- petent male named Jumbo, 10. we doing? When we fait chart of your expestation, please retl us. 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