24 - Friday, May 20, 1994 - North Shore News

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THE-WINNER of a January
contest sponsored by — the
Washington Mutual Bank, to select
the most unusual places or events in
the- Washington-Oregon area, was
the Douglas fir tree in Vashon
Island, Wash., that contains a bicy-
cle trapped inside the tree’s bark.
Local residents say that the bicycle
was parked beside the tree years ago
and that the bark eventually grew
around it and completely enveloped
it. The tree’s growth has lifted the
bicycle seven feet off the ground.

In November, a jury in
Montrose, Pennsylvania, acquitted
Samuel J. Cosmello Jr., who had
confessed to killing his brother and
burning his house down. The jury
accepted the testimony of a psychia-
trist who said Cosmello suffered
from an obsessive-compulsive dis-
order that made him need to confess
falsely.

In November, a defense lawyer
in San Francisco attempted to call a
parrot to the witness stand on the
chance that it might speak the name

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chicken took the stand in a Tyler,
Texas, courtroom to facilitate a
demonstration of vaccination proce-
dures at a local prison; and also last
spring, a police dog took the stand
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A January Associated Press
teport from the Gaza Strip described
recent sentences handed down by
one of the best-known of the local
religious arbiters. (Most Gazans
boycott the Isracli-run court system
and opt for private arbitration.) A
man who “winks” at a woman and
says, “Hey, beautiful!” should pay
the woman’s family about $2,500
and have his eye gouged out. As
punishment for rape, the rapist must
ride an oiled carmel from his house
to his victim’s, and upon arrival, he
must submit to having cut off any
part of his body that has oil on it. A
murderer’s family was ordered to
pay either a large amount of money
to the victim’s family or a smaller
amount plus the use of a woman to
bear a son to replace the victim.

In April, the Utah Supreme
Court upheld the murder conviction
of Frank Powell, who in 1987 ran
over Glen. Candland, to end their
fight over who had the best pickup
truck.

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