IN FORT Lauderdale, Florida, in
February, accused murderer Donald
Leroy Evans, 38, filed a pre-trial
motion asking permission to wear a
Ku Klux Klan robe in the court-
room and to be referred to in legal
documents by “the honorable and
respected name of Hi Hitler.”
‘According to courthouse employees
interviewed by the Associated
Press, Evans thought Adolf Hitler’s
followers were saying “Hi Hitler”
rather than “Heil, Hitler.”

In February, the Royal Bank of
Scotland announced that it would
begin to issue extra cheque-cashing
ID cards to its transvestite cus-
tomers who request them — so that
they might have separate cards
depicting themselves dressed as
male and female in order to “avoid
embarrassment or difficulties,”
according to a bank spokesman.

. |'A veterinarian in Berwick-
Upon-Tweed, England, toid the
‘Associated Press in February that
the cause of attrition among swans
that have populated the River
Tweed since medieval times is
recent clean-water rules. Dr. David
_Roallo said the swans’ main: food’ —
effluent from the decaying of barley
—- is no longer abundant in the,
river. And‘ the Environmental
Protection Agency recently orered
the city of San Diego to stop its

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cleanup of a portion of the Tijuana
River because the efforts would
cause irreparable harm to the
“sewage-based ecology.”

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About 15 customers gathered
their grocery iierns at a Safeway in
Oxon Hill, Maryland, shortly after
10 a.m. on Christmas morning and
lined up at the checkout Janes, but
no cashiers were on duty, and no
one-answered calls to the back of
the store. Lucal police were called
and after investigating found that

- the store was supposed to be closed
but that the Christmas Eve crew had

TT'S BECAUSE I. REPRESENT
THEIR WILD, UNINHIBITED
NATURES THETRE . TRYING
BESTERATELY To SUPPRESS

Those who claim to sleep like a baby don’t have one.

accidentally left the lights on and
the doors unlocked, giving shoppers
the impression that it was open.

In October, in Iran, where cele-
bratory gunfire is traditional at wed-
dings, a guest named Rasool lost
control of his automatic weapon at
a wedding in Lorestan province,
accidentally killing six people and
wounding 14. In Champion, Ohio,
in January, Rev. Thomas Gillum,
presiding at the burial of a Korean
War veteran, was accidentally shot
in the face when the local VFW
honor guard fired a four-gun salute.

The international food company
Nestle UK was fined about $20,000
in January for injuries suffered by
its employee Alex Tuvey-Smith,
36, ata plant in York, England.
While cleaning excess chocolate off
the sides of a giunt mixing bowl, he
slipped and fell in, triggering the
mixing paddles, which whipped
him for more than a minute. before
they were shut off.

In October, a police officer in
Rock Island, Illinois, while showing
his partner how a fellow officer had
accidentally shot and killed himseif.
during a training exercise three days
earlier, accidentally shot himself to
death. ©

[ THOUGHT 11 WAS BECAUSE
You use THEIR BACK YARD
AS A LATRINE .

© Roy Delgado

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