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JANICE Peck, 50, filed a law-

suit fast year in Salt Lake City
against the state Division of
Wildlife for alienation of affec-
tion, The agency had assigned
Janice’s then-husband,
Kandal, to partner up with
agent Jodi Becker, now 33, as
a married, outdoor couple in
order to infiltrate a poaching
operation.

Apparently, the couple was
so good at portraying acouple
that Randal divorced Janice
after 23 years” marriage and
married Becker. Randal and
Jodi said they initially slept
together in their government-
supplied trailer only to give
thar relationship greater
authenticity.

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Unitel Corp. announced in
March it was relocating its
100-job telemarketing office
from small-town Frostburg,
Md., to Florida. Unitel said
Frostburg workers’ telephone
manner is too polite for the
telemarketing business.

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News of the Weird report-
ed in 1994 on a Nassau
County, N.Y., cell block brag-
ging contest and fight over
pay-telephone privileges
between notorious murderers
Colin Ferguson (race-moti-
vated, commuter-train killer)
and Joel Ritkin (serial prosti-
tute killer).

Better spirited, according
to news reports in March
1999, are the cwice-a-week
bull sessions at the Supermax
federal prison in Florence,
Colo., of bombers Timothy
McVeigh (Oklahoma City),
Ramzi Yousef (World Trade
Center) and Ted Kaczynski
(Unabomber). Said one for-
mer prosecutor, “This is the
oddest kaffeeklatsch in the
history of Western civiliza-
tion.”

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The late Bennie Casson’s
unsuccessful lawsuit against 3

Sauect, IIL, stripper’s club for
neck injures caused by a
dancer's swinging her breasts
at him was all over the news in
1997,

In February 1999, Mark
Kent, 28, filed assault charges
against the Kappa Kabana
club in Kappa, TL, after a
dancer tried to wrap her legs
around his neck while holding
onto a pole on stage, causing
Kent to fall offa bar stool and
hit his head and elbow.

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News of the Weird report-
ed in 1993) thar a Santa
Monica, Calif, cate was sell-
ing $130/pound Kopi Luwak
cottee, produced trom choice
beans that have been run

through the digestive tract of

a Sumatran: marsupial before
being processed for sale.

A March 1999 Wall Street
Journal story trom Vietnam
reported on a similarly made
“caphe cut chon” (fox dung
coffee), employing a mon-
goose-related civet cat, whose
taste in finding the finest cof:
tee beans ina field is said to be
uncanny, (The coffer
shorter supply lately because
Vietnamese diners are finding
the civet cat, itself, rasty.)

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News of the Weird has
reported several times on cap-
ital punishment in China for

crimes somewhat less’ seridus

than murder. Among the lat-
est: Gao Yunliao, executed in
January in Henan province,
for stealing a statue. Executive
Tang Mihong and his employ-
ee Zhao Jian, executed in
December in Beijing, for
smuggling computers. And Jie
Hua Huang, 34, granted asy-
lum in Canada in November
because he faced a certain
death penalty in China for tax
fraud.

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Stories demonstrating dif-
ferent smell tolerances have
once again been in the news.

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body in the hepe that he
would revive.

And in January, authorities
in Thunder Bay, Ontario,

recovered the body of an $5-
year-old man, dead for four
years, which had to be extri-
cated from a house that one
officer called “a tremendous

In February, a 52-year-old
woman in Hong Kang gave
in ta the smell after a week
and turned her dead hus-
band's body over co authori-

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