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Childless couple told to try sex
https://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_95794...u=news.quirkies

Very funny.

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Funny at first, but so sad! How they must have prayed to have a child! But, if you read between the lines, they examined both husband and wife and determined that they were fertile and should have had no trouble conceiving. It says nothing about whether or not the wife was still a virgin -- she must have had sex with someone at some time if no one noticed that.

IMO
Roz

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Many humans limit freedom to correct something that they consider to be a problem.

Folks In Singapore Can Chew Gum Again

For the first time in 12 years, a ban on gum has been lifted by authorities in Singapore. But people who want to buy a pack have to submit their names and identification card numbers. If they don't, the pharmacist who sold them the pack could be thrown in jail for as long as two years.

REF. https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/3350119/detail.html

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Sometimes you have to wonder what has to happen before police find something suspicious. In the case of finding a decomposed body on the side of the road:

Police call the finding suspicious because the victim was only partially clothed.

So that is what made it suspicious? Not that it was on the side of a toll road and decomposing.

Ref. https://www.thewgalchannel.com/news/3409121/detail.html

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Bank robber tries to return money

ref: https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...change_of_heart

I wonder if he really thought they would just let him give back the money, give him a pat on the back, and let him on his merry way??

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People never cease to amaze me... this is why Hollywood can actually have a series of shows called "Stupid Criminals" (or something like that). you wonder how there is any successful crime at all.

Roz

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Here's a few from newsoftheweird.com

The Litigious Society

In 1999, a federal judge in Syracuse, N.Y., rejected another in a series of lawsuits by Donald Drusky of East McKeesport, Pa., in his 30-year battle against USX Corp. for ruining his life by firing him in 1968. Furthermore, Drusky sued "God ... the sovereign ruler of the universe" for taking "no corrective action" against any of Drusky's enemies and demanded that God compensate him with professional guitar-playing skills and the resurrection of his mother. [Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 3-15-99]

The March 1998 trial in the lawsuit by Lesli Szabo (seeking the equivalent of almost US$2 million against a Hamilton, Ontario, hospital) started with her testimony that she deserved money because her childbirth had not been pain-free. Physicians said that painless childbirth could not be achieved without the anesthesia's endangering the child, but Szabo said she expected to be comfortable enough to be able to read or knit while the child was being delivered. She admitted to previous run-ins with physicians, explaining, "When I'm in pain, the (words) that come out of my mouth would curl your hair." (After five days of trial, the parties reached an undisclosed settlement.) [Edmonton Journal, 3-17-98, 3-21-98




Why They Go Postal

Letter carrier Martha Cherry, 49, was fired by the Postal Service in White Plains, N.Y., in 1997 after 18 years of apparently walking her rounds too slowly. Wrote a supervisor, of the 5-foot-4 Cherry: "At each stop, the heal of your leading foot did not pass the toe of the trailing foot by more than one inch. As a result, you required 13 minutes longer than your demonstrated ability to deliver the mail to this section of your route." [Gaston (N.C.) Gazette-AP, 9-14-97]

Postal worker Douglas C. Yee, 50, was indicted in 1996 in San Mateo, Calif., for pulling off bulk-mail scams that grossed him $800,000. Found in Yee's garbage were notes he had written to God expressing gratitude for His continued help in evading police. Read one: "Lord, I am having a difficult time myself seeing you as a God who hides crime, yet your Word says that it's your privilege (or glory) to do just that." [San Jose Mercury News, 2-9-96]


Least Competent Criminals
Fort Smith, Ark., police arrested James Newsome, 37, in 1999 and charged him with taking money at gunpoint from the Gas Well convenience store. The robber's face was easily identified from the surveillance tape, and the coat worn by the robber was found in Newsome's car. Also, Newsome's wife said the family car had a radiator leak, and a puddle of antifreeze was found beside the store where the robber parked. And, also, the robber wore a hard hat with "James Newsome" on the front. [Reuters wirecopy, 1-26-99]

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Two passenger jets flying over Russia disappeared from radar within minutes of each other late Tuesday. One was confirmed to have crashed, the second is still missing.
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