When si newe of the weird From page 11 her honour. Q09 Too Much Time on Their Hands: According to 2 May Reuters dispatch, the city- supported Icelandic Pialiological Museum in Reykjavik is closing in on its goal o# housing at least onc sample penis from every mammal native to Iceland. Only “man” and one species of whale are missing, and curator Sigurdur Hjartarson has solved the first problem with a fetter from an 83-year- old former Lothario promis- ing his organ upon his death (in an erect state if doctors can act quickly enough). Some whale species, though, have only the tips displayed because the entire organs are ‘too long (10 feet) or too heavy (more than 100 * pour ds). a09 : In June, the Tokyo firm Epoch introduced. the . Plantone, an* egg-shaped, , battery-operated, $55 appli- | ance that, when wired to a plant’s leaves, checks its emo- tional state and reports that ‘to the caretaker in a series of lights and sounds. ee 1° 1" ee alt an April “feature “just : er the air war over “Yugoslavia began, the Boston tg profiled a group of Watertown, Mass., residents. - vho met daily to. engage in ‘an “advanced” fom of Transcendental Meditation .t0 send brain waves of calm- ness. halfway around the world to dissipate the stresses that caused the war. Said one participanc (described as a “financial writer”), “We're undermining warlike tenden- cies.” The meditation failed for 80 davs, but on June 21, NATO ended its bombing campaign. qaog Psychogenic Fugues: People recently —formaliy diagnosed with “psychogenic fugue” (temporarily aban- doning one’s current realitv and falling into a substirute), which of course informally describes most people report- ed in News of the Weird — Tim Carpenter, 44, former publisher of Christian books, pleaded guiity in Springtield, Mo., in July to causing a false police report; in December 1998, he had walked away - from his home and job in Springficid and was found the next week working in Memphis, Tenn, And Dan Ristau, 50, was _ convicted of trespassing in Genesco, UL, in June for going to an acquaintance’s ome in the middle of the night and sitting on her bed because he said he needed to talk to her. oan Isracl rolled back its clocks one hour in Seprember to support Orthcdox Jewish prayer scheduies, bur the alestinian West Bank remained on summer time, and Israeli security sources told reporters that the time change resulted in the deaths of three Palestinian terrorist bombers. At 5 p.m. on Sept. 5, as terrorists were ¢n route to targets in Haifa and Tiberius, he are ze rea their bombs exploded in their cars, killing three of the men. The security sources said bomb-makers in the West Bank had set the timers for 6 p.m. but that the bomb-carri- ers incorrectly assumed that the hour's difference had been fetored ia. 3200 In September, just after fighting broke out in East Timor, Indonesia's strong- man defense minister, General Wiranto, dropped by a large party in Jakarta host- ing retired military people, gave a moving speech defending the government's stand against East Timorese independence, and, to dra- matize his patriotic emotions, sang the song “Feelings.” According to an Associated Press reporter in attendance, Wiranto nailed the high nctes. a00 Recurring Themes Latest woman to cantinue to propose everlasting matri- monial bliss with a man who carlier attempted to kill her: Hong Kong waiter Ms, Au Wing-sze, 18, who in August vowed to marry Tang Kwek- wai even thou ugh he had just been convicted of tossing ker over an 18th-floor balcony and stomping her hands as she clung to the railing. (She hung on long enough for a downstairs neighbor to pull her to safety.) Said An’s lawyer, “If anything, (the incident) has only strength- ened (their) relationship.” o00 justifiable Virgil =A. Least Homicides: Henderson, had been dogging your yard trimmings? Try composting with a Garden Gourmet, the Seeehi. _ compost i. ter of choice for North Shore IMPORTANT INFORMATION: Cash, credit or debit cards are NOT accepted at the Recycling Depo!. Payment must be made by cheque cr money-order ONLY. Composters are available to North & West Vancouver residents ONLY. There is SrogKa a limit of two composters per household. convicted in - Minneapolis in March {victim : Henderson to take a bath and change clothes}; Brian N. Wright and Rantone D. Howard, charged in Independence, Mo., in April (victim crashed a party and drank beer without permis- sion); James Gatling Jr., con- victed in Newport News, Va., in February (wanted to buy victim’s Porsche but felt vic- tim humiliated him by insin- uaring Gatling was unworthy of a Porsche). O00 Also, in the Last Month .. A nun was charged with lying to police about being robbed in order to cover for $20,000 of church moncy she had naively donated to a scam artist (Santa Manica, Calif.). A deli aamed a burger for college student Shaur Reiliy in honour of his periodically scarfing. down six 8-cunce cheeseburgers | and __ five pounds of fries at one sitting (Brighton, Mass.). A 39-year-old man was arrested for burglary after being found inside a church, passed out from communion wine (San Diego). A high-ranking Canadian pro-gun lobbyist was cited by police when his gun acciden- tally fired a round through his wall and into a neigh- bour’s apartinent (Regina, Saskatchewan). 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