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Sammy ‘The Bull’ a lady killer

NEWS OF THE
WEIRD

FORMER Gotti crime-family
hitman Sammy “The Bul!”
Gravanc cooperated on
author Peter Maas’ Gravano
biography, Undertoss, to be
published this month.
Despite the fact thar
Gravano’s testimony helped
send Gotti to prison for life
without parole and 36 others
to the slammer, and despite
the fact thar he admits to
making 19 hits for che Gocti
family, Gravano reportedly
quit the Witness Protection
Program and said he'll rake
his chances on the strect.
Though he had plastic
surgery after he went under-
ground, he agreed to show
off his new face in the book,
perhaps, said Maas, because
the recently — divorced
Gravano would like to hear
from any interested ladies.

Randy Farmer of a
Houston suburb was one of
the millions of people around
the world who felt compelled
to welcome in 1997 by firing
off a few gunshots just after
midnight.

Farmer shot at a backyard
tree, but then the gun
jammed and he went back
inside to unjam it. He mis-
handled his gun and acciden-
tally shot and killed his seven-
year-old daughter.

Said Farmer: “God had a
hand in this. He had to. It
was like God called my baby
home to be with him, and
God used me as 2 tool to
bring her to him.”

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The University of Arizona

has turned dawn a $250,000
scholarship gift that was to be
available to female American
Indians.

Four-year Sally Keith
Scholarships would be given
on the basis of personality
rather than grades and prefer-
ence would be given to vir-
gins, a point that caused the
university to balk because,
said a university official, “We
can’t dictate morals.”

Buffalo Sxate University
professor Scort Isaksen, 44,
was arrested in December,
allegedly in connection with
his coursework, which is
described in the university’s
bulletin as “original think-
ing” and “approaching sitva-
tions with innovative tech-
niques.”

According to police, he
had given a truant male stu-
dent the option of writing a
Paper on stress or actually
meeting with Isaksen in pri-

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vate for a series of stress exer-
cises. The student chose the
latter, which included allow-
ing Isaksen to handcuff him
and to put a rope around his
neck in a motel room.

Surgeons removed a
cataract from the eye of the
National Zoo’s six-foot-long
Komodo dragon “Muffin” in
the hope thar she could bet-
ter see how studly the male
“Friendty™ was and = thus
would mate with him.

And doctors in
Johannesburg, South Africa,
performed spinal surgery on a
10-foot-long python, which
had been run over by a car.
(Contrary to what our eyes
tell us, the python has 306
vertebrae and 268 ribs.)

And in Jackson, Michigan,
veterinarian Timothy
England fitted a stray rooster
with artificial legs after he had
to amputate his natural ones
because of frostbite.

Ms. Nadean Cool has won
a settlement of $2.4 million
in her lawsuit in Wisconsin
against her former psy-
chotherapist, Dr. Kenneth
Olson.

She claimed that Dr.
Olson had first persuaded her
that she had a multiple-per-
sonality disorder (120 per-
sonalities, including Satan
and a duck) and then billed
her insurance company for

“group” therapy because he
said he had to counsel so
many people. (Olson, secking
greener pastures for his psy-
chotherapy businzss, had
since moved ta Montana.)

The Washington Supreme
Court has reversed on a tech-
nicality the conviction of
Benjamin R. Hull, who had
been found guilty of defraud-
ing the state worker compen-
sation office.

Hull admitted that he got
a friend to help him blast a
hole in his left leg below the
knee with a shotgun, but
insisted it was not to get
compensation (he received
$96,000), bur because the
knee has been so painful to

him since 1973 after it was [ak

injured in an accident. (Five
years earlier, he had tied to
take the leg off with a chain
saw, but got only part-way
through because the saw kept .
malfunctioning.) ;

The Australian Medical
Journal reported a case of.
lead poisoning by an clectri-
cian who chewed electrical «|
cable to satisfy his nicotine
urge when he was forced to’ @

work in no-smoking build-

ings.
The man said he chewed

almost a yard of cable a day. Sau

for nearly 10 years because it
had a sweet taste, especially. :§
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