Strange...but true....(READ # 5!)

[WillParkinson]

I don't know if Matcom posted these but they are WAY out there...(Make sure you read the 5th one...)

Strange Stories . . .

For two years, 38-year-old Jian Feng had the luxury of a beautiful woman at his side. Everything was going perfectly fine until the couple decided to have a baby. Apparently, his wife gave birth to a baby girl so ugly that Feng was "horrified" at the sight of her. Feng immediately assumed that his trophy wife had been cheating on him with an ugly fellow. Quick to defend her daughter, his wife admitted to having $127,000 worth of plastic surgery in South Korea before they had met. She then produced a picture of how she used to look and let him have a look. Well, this set Feng over the edge and not only did he waste no time filing for divorce, but he also sued her for deceit. He managed to get
$99,700 out of the whole deal.


HIROSHIMA - I'll bet this was her first and last time paragliding. Japanese woman Akiko Morito made her first
paragliding solo descent only to land - and get tangled - in 66,000 volt power lines 100 feet above the ground. She was dangling for three-and-a-half hours before she was finally freed by rescuers. The local fire department had to get a helicopter to the remote corner of Hiroshima Prefecture where the poor woman was hanging above the trees. A rescuer, lowered from the aircraft, attached himself to Morito and cut her parachute cords with cutters. They were then brought down to safety. According to Morito's paragliding instructor, there was a failure in her radio equipment so he couldn't give her directions when she got stuck. When she collided, the volts of electricity were running through the lines, but authorities cut the power when they heard about her situation.


STOCKHOLM - Amorous couples in quick need of protection can dial the telephone number 696969 and the condom ambulance will come to their rescue. The ambulance, a white van with a large red condom with wings as a logo, will deliver them a packet of 10 prophylactics. "We need to increase the usage of condoms," said Carl Osvald, marketing manager for the Swedish Organization for Sex Education, the non-governmental organization behind the initiative. "It is 50 percent about pregnancy and 50 percent about sexually transmitted diseases." The service will run until June 25 and is available between four in the afternoon and nine at night. "We need to change attitudes to condoms," Osvald said. "If we need to get out in to the bedrooms to make things better we will do it."


FOUL: Administrators at Diamond Hill-Jarvis High School in Ft. Worth,Texas, spotted an 8-inch bat in a car parked in the lot. They traced the auto to sophomore Cory Henson, a junior varsity baseball player, and pulled him out of class so he could unlock the car for a search. "Weapon!" they cried as they confiscated the tiny bat that had fallen off a baseball trophy. Per the district's zero tolerance policy, Henson was suspended pending an expulsion hearing. Police declined to file criminal charges, and Henson's mother wondered why the school didn't have any problem with the full-size aluminum baseball bat that was also in the car. At the hearing, school officials declared the tiny bat was not a weapon and ended the suspension. (Ft. Worth Star-Telegram)


SMASHING: Blake Molnar, an honor student at Danbury High School in
Lakeside, Ohio, bought a ticket in a school-sponsored contest benefitting the American Cancer Society and he won the grand prize: he got to throw a pie in the principal's face. Principal Karen Abbott stood still to take her medicine as the 110-pound boy took his best shot at the close of the school-wide assembly. But as he returned to his seat Abbott "grabbed" him, hauled him to the office and called police. The 15-year-old has been expelled from school for 80 days and, at the principal's insistence, could face criminal assault charges. "There was at least what Karen felt was malicious intent," said Police Chief Mike Meisler. "There was too much force used" in hitting her with the pie. (AP, Toledo Blade)


STUNNING: With her senior year winding down, 18-year-old Amanda Conroy, an honor roll student at Barron Collier High School in Naples, Fla., looked forward to the prom, graduation, and college. But that's before she drove her mother's car to school after her own broke down. A random search turned up her mother's stun gun in the car. The assistant principal, citing the district's "zero tolerance" policy toward weapons on campus, ordered a 5-day suspension -- and no prom. The principal increased the punishment to 10 days -- and no graduation ceremony. Then Assistant Superintendent Michele Lugo ordered the punishment be increased to expulsion -- and no diploma. Conroy's father says Lugo told him that "things would go better" for Amanda if he didn't hire a lawyer or talk to the media. He declined. The resulting publicity caused the school to back down: they allowed Amanda to go to the prom, finish her school work in an "alternative" school, and graduate with
her class. (Bonita Daily News)


HOW DO YOU PLEAD? Police say Tomas Sheerin of County Kildare, Ireland, had an argument with a man and decided to break into the man's house to beat him up. He climbed into a bedroom window late at night but made so much noise that one of the house's occupants awoke and called out "Who's there?" Sheerin answered "It's me, Tommy." In court to plead guilty to the resulting burglary charge, Sheerin's lawyer conceded his client is "a few bushes short of a rubbery." (PA)