A 49-year-old San Francisco
stockbroker, who “totally
zoned when he ran,” accord-
ing to his wife, accidentally
jogged off of a 200-foot-high

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chif¥ on his daily run.

And in Detroit, a 41-year-
old man got stuck and
drowned 1 twe feet of water
after squeezing — headfirst
through an 18-inch-wide
sewer grate to retrieve his car
keys.

And in September, a seven-
year-old boy feli off a 100-
foor-high bluff near Ozark,
Arkansas, after he lost his grip
swinging on a cross that
marked the spot where anoth-
er person had falien to his
death in 1990.

Police in Tokyo arrested
Ms. Teruko Hamakawa, 52,
for illegal interference with a
man’s business, charging her
with calling him on the phone

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at work and then hanging up
— 16,000 umes in a one-year
period.

She was angry that, after
they had exchanged photos
seeking a romantic introduc-
tion, he faiied to call, which
she thougat was “impolite.”

Ferenc Kovacs, who
recently invented a singing
condom that plays communist
marching songs, has opened a
Jaugh kiosk in Budapest,
Hungary (widely regarded as
one of the most morose cities
on Earth).

His fee ranges from about
2 cents to provoke a smile to
about 35 cents for a laugh.
(Sample: Kovacs dons match-
ing black armbands and

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explains, “I was ratking to my
brother yesterday, and it turns
out his mother died, too.”).

Robert Norton, 73, was
arrested recently for at least
the 13th time since 1981 on
public nudity charges while
out working in his yard in
Pekin, HMlinots

And in Florida, Carolyn
Sparks, 48, received a citation
for raking topless in her front
yard. (In November, a jury
said her behavior did not
amount to disorderly con-
duct.)

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An October Associated
Press story reported on the
formaldehyde-saturated

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Jogger in ‘zone’ runs off San Fran cliff

muscum housing works of
Honore Fragonard, an 18th-
Century French anatomist
who sculpted in cadavers,
carefully skinned, preserved
and posed.

Visitors to the Maisons-
Alfort, France, structure (just
down the river from the
Charenton insane asylum,
which is where some say
Fragonard belonged) nowa-
cays are struck by how much
his works resemble the
“Alien” and other creatures
from modern horror films.

People Getting Too Much
Sleep: Michele G. Phebus, 27,
and Tony A. Phebus, 29, were
arrested in Indiana after they
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the microphone and pick-up ©
window at a White Castle
drive-thru; police found
numerous marijuana butts in
the car and a brick of it in the
trunk.

And Brian K. Costa, 27,
was found asleep in his car in
the middie of an on-ramp to
the Henderson Bridge in East
Providence in September,
with five bags of cocaine in his
ap.

A show by the feminist
sculptor Louise Bourgeois in
Toronto in May included a
retrospective of her works fea-
turing bizarre, severed penises
and huge testicles hanging
singly or in pairs or in bunch,.,
es, including “No Exit” (a
stairway with two huge testi-
cles restricting egress at the
bottom) and “Untitled (With
Foot),” in which an innocent
baby is crushed by a large,
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