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MIRIAM Flores, serving
rs for robbery in: Blexico
selected Miss
Mexico Jailhouse in a pageanz
that featured 14 of the citv
foxiest femaie inmates.
later, Ms. Pham
Ngoc Tam won first place in a

nationwide beauty contes: of

female jail guards held near
Hanoi, Vietnam. {Apress
report said Pham is “probably
bes: described as ‘hand-
some.””

A Calvary man collapsed
and fell face-first in his office
while brushing his teeth.

he bristle end of the

toothbrush penetrated about

an inch into his eye secker

below the cyeball, hut oph-

thalmologist Rob Mitchell

said the man would suffer no
permanent injury.
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Richard Evans, a member
of the Australian Parliament,

use crowned

has proposed that the country
eliminate all cats within 25
years.

Fvany cttered evidence
that cats have killed off nine
native species of wildlite and
proposed that a fatal virus to
be released on feral cats. He
aid also that domestic cats
shoul be neurered unt they
di¢ cut and that in dhe inter
im, cat curfews and 2 registry
should be put in piace.

Huntsville
Justin [
impale
20-foor-long steel pipe. which
went completely through his
chest when truck rammed
a chain-link fene

Surgeons
removed it, but, sai
Jaicks, “Ifanvone (at the 2
dent sits) had pulled thar pipe

out, be would’ve died (or

blood jas

A machine that packs
expiosive devices into car air-
bag detonators blew up in the
face of Denver's Nicolas
Villarruel, 29, leaving one

losive lodged in his nose,

ding him to the hospital.

The device was removed
by surgeons in Jead-lined
gowns and with Villarruel’s
head under water because the
explosive is activated by air.

Jesse James Tavlor, 32,
drove himself to the Pikeville
Methodist Hospital emer-
gency room in Kentucky with
a meat cleaver stuck in his

head and part of a butcher
knite in his back, as the result
ofa fight with his girlfriend's
lo-vear Old son over rent
money.

Atter surgery, he was
released the following dav.

Paul Suiller, 47, was hospi-
talized in Andover Township,
N.J.. in September, and his
wite, Bonnie, was also
injured, by a quarter-stick of
dynamite thar blew up in

wir 2 While driving
around at 2 a.m., the bored
coupic lit the dvnamite and
tried to toss it out the win-
dow to sce what would hap-

rn, but they apparent!

led to notic: that the win-
dow was closed.

Construction orker
Sidney de Queircz was hospi-
talized in Soracaba, Brazil, in
October “xhen a barroom
fight left a five-inch-long
knife blade partway inside his
brain after he was stabbed
cluse to his right eve.

The blade remained in his
head for a week while doctors
pondered how to get it out
without causing more dam-
age. Finally, during nine
hours of surgery on Nov. 2,
the knife was removed.

Among the latest highway
truck spills: a load of trozen
french friss on 1-70 in
Missouri; 2 pickup truck full
of ricotta’ cheese — in
Providence, RI; 21 tons of
large plates of glass in

Davenport, Iowa; 30,000
cans of Milwaukee’s Best beer
in Belpre, Ohio; 12,000 ruof-
iny nails (that punctured tires
of about 30 cars) in Baton
Rouge, Louisiana; and
103,000 exys on Highway 92
near Winterset, Towa.

“Jim Do
was arrested In
Connecticut rezenty and
chereed with taking the life of
a 19-year-old man in a brawl.

Police were drawn to
Williams’ scent when they
found a set of gold-plated
teeth inseribed “Jim Dag” at
the scene of the fight.

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Wilhams. fr.

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The New York Post revealed
that the New York City Police
Department has spent more
than $260,00U since 1992 in
overtime pay for nightshift
officers waiting for a flow to
start for their urine tests.

Drug testing of randomly
selected officers is done only
durnng the day shift, and the
average overtime claim is 3.5
hours.

To assure that she would
not be disqualified in last
summer’s Olympic Games,
Brazil’s female heavyweight
judo champion — Edinanci
Fernandes da Silva, 19,
underwent surgery in May to
remove partially formed testi-
cles that were responsible for
her abnormally high levels of
testosterone.

“i'm a normal woman,”
says da Silva.