16 — Friday, August 29, 1997 — North Shore News

Tears shed
for Mr. Ed

AT a recent celebrity auction,
Debbie Dacoba of Paw Paw,
Michigan, bid $8,625 for a pair
of Mr. Ed's horseshoes and was
so overcome with joy when she
won that she had to retreat to
the ladies’ room for 20 minutes
until she stopped crying.

Later she ioid a reporter
that she would keep the horse-
shoes in plastic because specks
of brown residue in the nail
holes “could be manure, which
T hope it is because then | have
a piece of him.”

Misa Teresaka, 32, has filed
a lawsuit for about $130,000
against the Discovery Bay
health club in’ Hong Kong and
her personal trainer Li Ching
for injuries she suffered in
1995.

She said the trainer encour-
aged her to continue to litt
weights despite severe back
aches and that the pain is now
so bad that her career prospec
are diminished because she can
no longer bow.

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San Mateo, California --- In
a kidnapping trial last month,
the I}-year-old victim was
asked to identify the man who
abducted her.

She gazed around the
courtroom, past defendant
John Paul Balocca sitting with
his counsel, and pointed to
Juror No. 11. Fortunately,
Balocca had already confessed
to the abduction; the purpose
of the tial was to ascertain the
degree of the crime. (No
charges were filed against Juror
No. 11.)

New City, New York —
Steven Weisblat has filed a law-
suit against a recendy married
Armenian-American couple for
various injuries incurred while
he was a guest at their wed-

Accarding to the lawsuit, as
tradition, the groom was
tossed into the air by dancers,
bur they were inebriated and
tossed him too far, and he land-
ed on Weisblat, who wasn’t
even on the dance floor at the
time.

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James Van Gorder, 31, has
filed a lawsuit against the
Parkway Chiropractic Center
in Detroit for negligence dur-
ing his recent treacment for
back pain.

According, to Van Gorder,
the chiropractor had him take
off his clothes and lie face
down on the two-part examin-

Coure

We would like to
apologize for an error
in a Kidz Kutz Hair
Design advertisement
on August 20.

Please be advised thar
Kidz Kutz Hair Design
offers $2.00 off kids’
hair cuts on Tuesdays —
not Thursdays.

We apologize for any
inconvenience this
error may have caused.

NEWS OF THE
WEIRD

ing table.

The way he was ling, his
genitals fell between the parts,
and when the chiropractor
adjusted the table, Van Gorder
got caught. He claims extreme
pain, suffering, disfigurement
and loss of sexual desire.

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To publicize the fact that it
would soon resume bulk trash
pickups (suspended for several
months because of budget
problems}, the District of
Columbia Department —_ of
Public Works paid to make TV
public service announcements
demonstrating that its crews
were at work,

However, according to the
Washington Business Journal,
fresh bulk trash (appliances,
sofas, etc.) was brought in, at
additional cost, to give the ads
the proper look, despite the
fact that residents had a huge
backlog of the same items that
they were perfectly willing to
put out on the curb for free.

An abandoned, severely
cannibalized 1974 Dodge
Dart, which had been siting
on the side of U.S. 68 in
Kentucky since 1988, was final-
ly removed.

During that time, the state
government and Jessamine
County each ___ relentlessly
argued that removing it was
the other’s responsibility.

Dallas police officer
Raymond Dethloff Jr., 34, has
been suspended for 15 days for
eating a McDonald’s chicken
sandwich he took from a
crashed car at an accident
scene,

The 16-year-old girl to
whom it belonged had been
taken away in an ambulance
with minor injuries.

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