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Wednesday, October 6, 1999 - North Shore News ~ 13°":

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AT a motoreyele exhibit in
Stockholm in May, orchestra
conductor Petter Sundkvist
waved racetrack flags instead
ofa baton to guide 106 bik-
ers revving their engines at
different intensities to per-
form a five-minute piece
called “Wrooom” by Swedish
composer Staffan
Mossenmark. (One critic said
the piece had a range from
“ominous-and-loud to omi-
nous-and-deafening.”)
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Great Art! Berlin artist
Anton Henning, 35,
unveiled his brown-
splotched work, whose title
translates to Meatballs,
Gherkins, Beetreat, Potatoes,
Watermelon, Lemon Juice
and a Large Brownie,” which
will run through January
2000 at the prestigious
Museum of Modern Art in
Frankfurt. The title: signifies
what . Henning: ate. to pro-
- duce the splotches, which are

sealed. with resin‘so‘@i not to -

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Contemporary Art in -

Spairi,:was.a success.
The report was accompanied
by ‘a photo of:a model in a

‘traditional Andalusian dress ~

ade entirely of raw ham.
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Artistic. ‘human  skin-
randing has picked up devo-
ing to

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i a Tenn., hobo Lester Hurley, -
- 51, was. arrested : when -he

the keys.

strike method (a design plate
is heated and applied to the
skin), and sketching by a
2,200-degree canterized
scalpel.

Branding produces a
third-degree burn, takes at
least three weeks to heal,
and, in addition to the pain,
increases the risk of the mast
aggressive form of skin can-
cer.

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In June, German film
director Christoph
Schlingensief disclosed his
plan to pay tribute to capital-
ism by tossing 100,000
marks (about $53,000 US)
off the Reichstag parliament
building in Berlin as part of a
cultural show sponsored by
Deutsche Bank. (Two days
later, when Deutsche Bank
got wind of the plan, it can-
celled the contract.)

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Wrong. Place, Wrong

Time: A man was arrested at.
the airport in Seville, Spain,

in August after snatching a
tourist's bag and attempting

to flee; standing nearby were.

members of a U.S. track and
field delegation, including
Maurice Green - (current
world record-holder in the
100-metres), who ran down
the perp without much
effort. .

And a month earlier in
Huddersfield, West Yorks,
England, two men tied to
steal a car from a driveway,
but the car owner’s father,
Derek Ibbotson, who is 67
but a former world record-

-holder in. the mile, caught
intensely into their -.

one of the men and grabbed
Gao
- In March in Knoxville,

happened to emerge trom a
night’s sleep in a boxear at
just the time that a police
press conference was break-
ing up a few yards away on
how police plan to crack
down on boxcar trespassing.

And in August, Ricky
Lynn Caudill, 43, was arrest-
ed when he happened to
attempt a robbery of a Bank
One in Columbus, Ohio, at
just the time that police offi-
cer Duane Ward was in the
lobby bricting employees on
what to do in case of a bank
robbery.

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A Resurgence of Interest
in Farming: In August,
Richard James McClean, 21,
and David Delasantos, 22,
were arrested in Petaluma,
Calif., and charged with
breaking into a home at gun-

point and uprooting and °

stealing about a dozen mari-
juana plants. to

And two weeks earlier, in
Kelowna, British Columbia,
a gang of thieves broke into a
police compound and stole
about 250 freshly seized
marijuana plants.

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Update: A ycar ago, News
of the Weird reported that a
jury in Westminster, Calif.,
had convicted Cal State-
Long Beach engineering pro-
fessor Elena Zagustin, 61, of
massive health violations at
her exceptionally odoriferous
and messy home, which
included many buckets sub-
stituting for broken toilets.
By September 1999,
Zagustin had sold the house

(at a discount for its condi- _

tion, but still, because of the
California rea! estate market,

Times, they found trash two
feet high in every room, rot-
ting vegetables, maggots,
beds topped with garbage,
tlies everywhere, and still-
broken toilets.
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In September, — Italy’s
highest appeals court ruled
that 2 spouse’s obsession
with another person was
grounds for divorce even
though she never had a rela-
tionship, sexual or otherwise,
with the other man. A lower
court had ruled that the wife,
identified publicly only as
Anna, was not art fault
because there was no “carnal
betrayal,” however, — the

Court of Cassation wrote -

that her constanr thoughts
about a bus driver whom she
knew had broken her mar-
riage’s “trust and intimacy”
just as surely as if the two
had had sex.
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Earlier this year, Mayor
Dan Gibson of Crystal
Springs, Miss., decided to
run for the Republican
gubernatorial nomination
and, with the support of his
wife and son, resigned and
liquidated his: assets to
finance the campaign,
including the couple’s five-
bedroom antebellum home,
antique furniture and two
Cadillacs. He finished
fourth, and the Gibsons now
live in a cramped onc-bed-
room apartment with one
used car for transportation.

for $301,500), but when the °.

buyers pried the door open,

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Press in August that he has
no regrets and agrees with
the voters: “I need more
maturity (before halding

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Least Competent
Criminals, People © Who
Should Have Kept a Lower
Profile: In July in Gifford,
Fla., Brizella Mortimer, 29,
was charged with burglary
after a neighbour, who had
been missing several items
from her home, looked out
her window and saw her
favourite motorcycle-themed
towel hanging from
Mortimer’s clothesline; a
search of Mortimer’s home
turned up more of the
wontan’s stuff.

And ‘in’ July, a thief in-

Salta, northern Argentina,
gave himself away by show-
ing up at a Catholic mass
wearing the clothes he had
recently stolen. from = the

. Franciscan priest officiating

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at the mass.
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Also, in the Last Month:
A 38-year-old transsexual
woman climbed a downtown
electrical tower during rush
hour, danced topless, and
spit fire in a protest of
fernale-shirtlessness laws
(Seattle), A biologist told an
academic conference that it
was an accident of nature
that there are only two
human genders, probably
due to a bacterial infection
two — billion years ago
(Sheffield, England). A bank
robber was caught as he
raced his getaway truck back
into the car lot where he had
taken it from, supposediy for .
a test drive (Round Rock,
Texas). A graduate sued his
high school for suspending:
him last year after he pho-.....
tographed his principal’s car.
at the home of teacher who: ~
was suspected of having an °;
affair with the priricipal
(Midland, Texas). wo OS