THE FOLLOWING is a news item
sent to the Weird. Desk by North
Shore resident Lisa Cooper, who
came across it in the South African
newspaper Aruus.

Acuniversity lecturer whose
erect penis “popped out” during a

private lesson with a female student. -

hus blamed his washing machine.
‘Scientist lan Raberts. 53, told a
Cambridge magistrate his washing
machine was not rinsing properly.
resulting in powder i in his under-
pants.
“St caused a rash which made me
itch,” suid Mr. Rabarts, “so | Iet my
- genitals hang out of my briefs.”
The father of two said a whiff of
student Michelle Sowden;Frost's
perfume caused his penis to become
erect.
i “The displacement, of my “under-
pants. because of my problems with

36 - Wednesday, March 2, 1994 - North Shore News

_conipied by A P. MeGredie

“my crotch and the unwiting leaving” ag

open of my fly allowed the erection:
10 protrude’ ‘through the: ‘slip of my -

$55 million ‘awsuitagainst the

sheriff's -departmenri, claiming that

os: fabre ate Raberts-claimed. The “the raid traumatized their children,
| magistrate. accepted that the inci-": who ‘were in attendance. Before the

dent: was-.accidental and’ Mr;
Rabarts' wi s Cleared of indecent
exposure...

*His wife’ added that they had

séveral parents who
‘had been arrested at-a cockfighting
taid in’ Dayton; 17 Tennessee. fi led a

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deputies arrived, the children were
watching 400 people cheering two

fights in adjacent rings in which 15
: roosters had already been killed.

A rather odd placing of a classi-

fied'ad appeared in last Sature ray’s

:Globe & Mail. W read: A-writer
“seeks Hterary” agent or publisher to
“assist. same in. getting novel pub-

_ lished: Nothing. weird’ about that, :

but one has to wonder why it was in
the Friends and Companions col-
umn.

Wayne David Sorg. 29. wa
arrested in’ January in St
Petersburg, Florida. and charged
with various instances of exposing
his genitals to women and to girls
as young as 13, According to police
investigators, Sorg said he did it
because he used to be a sexy show
dancer and missed the attention he
used to get on stage.

-Paul Hernandez, 56, died in
Miami late last year from head

injuries suffered 32 years earlier. -

Hernandez was part of the U.S.-
backed “Bay of Pigs”. invasion of
Cuba in 1961 and had suffered fre-
quent seizures since then as a result
of a gunshot during an ambush by
Cuban soldiers.

George Gibbs, 23, suffered sec-
ond- and third-degree burns on his
head in Columbus, Ohio, in
January. '!e had diagnosed his car's
problem as a frozen fuel line, which
he thought he could correct by run-

ning warm gasoline through it. He:

then tried to heat a two-galion can
of gasoline on a gas stove.

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REGISTER NOW FOR SEPTEMBER 1994

‘international
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Tuesday, March &

FREE LECTURES 8: 30 a.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Numerous College faculty will be dedicating
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The community is invited to attend, :

SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER _
Kathleen Shannon, former head of Studio D .
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~ Makes It" from 12:35 - 2:00 p.m...
Lecture Theatre C148 ;

THE MARY CATHERINE PATERSON.

* ANNUAL LECTURE ‘
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Toke.a 1994 Land Rover Defender for a drive
this Friday with Greg Wilson in ‘the auto section.
Greg will give you the goods on the latest
vehicles'to hit the showrooms, from high
performance sports cars to family sedans.
Spend a few minutés kicking the tires on
a Land Rover Defender with Greg this Friday. =

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