G6 - Wednesday, October 11, 1995 ~

_Conipied by A. P. McCredie

OSCAR, THE performing liypnotic
Labrador dog, recently ran away
from trainers just before a sell-out
show in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Oscar’s: owner Hugh Lennon
asked the public to be on the look-
out for Oscar, but not to look at him
directly in the eyes,

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Performance art has arrived in
Russia — Alexander Brener was
. arrested earlier this year in Moscow
for dressing in boxing trunks and
gloves i in Red Square and demand-
- ing that President Boris Yeltsin
come fight him.
Previously, in the name of art,
zener has. attempted to copulate
with his wife ata monument, defe-
cated in front of a Van Gogh: paint-
ing at a museum, driven staples into
his naked buttocks at an art house,
and masturbated from the top of the
diving tower at Moscow’s largest
municipal swimming pool.
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Newport, Rhode Island —

, “WW Burglary suspect Jamie Johnson,

.24, fleeing police, scaled ‘an iron
‘ picket fence, struggled with cops at
the top, then fell off and ran briefly

' before being arrested.
“At the police ‘station, ‘cops
noticed Johnson was bleeding ai the

North Shore News

crotch. According to the Associated
Press, police “returned to the scene
and retrieved Johnson's testicles,
which were still impaled on the
fence.”

Police said Johnson had never
mentioned that he was in pain. -

Missouri’s Rick Quessenberry
was named as one of six people :o
America's World Championship of
Hairstyling team scheduled to com-
pete next summer in Washington,
D.C.

The teams compete in categories
such as “business hair,” “night-time
social hair,” “progressive hair.” and
a technical hairstyling event.

The hairdressers march jn an
Olympies-style opening ceremony,
ond after each event, the winner's
flag is raised ‘and its national
anthem played.

More than 20,000 hairstylists
are expected to attend the Hair
World convention.

A Reuters dispatch from the
Netherlands quoted Rotterdam
police as lauding a new crime-
detection technique.

A police spokesman said crimi-
ais sometimes leave carprints on

windows and doors: “Earprinting is :
going to become almost as common”

as fingerprinting soon.
ves

During a recent 40-minute oper-
ation, Russian: army surgeons
removed a live, rifle-launched
grenade from the jaw of a saldiez
injured in the Chechnyan fighting.

The {,000-ton riverboat,

Showboat Branson Belle, built on
the shore of landlocked Table Rock
Lake near Branson, Missouri, .was
launched on 160-foot-long. raiis
connecting the construction site
with the lake.
'* To lubricate the rails without
using environmentally. unfriendly
industrial grease, the shipbuilders
used 40 crates’ worth of unpecled
bananas.

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