- Sign on the door of a Tucson, AZ., bus: BOARDING OF BUS PROHIBITED WHEN DOORS ARE CLOSED!
- Headline in the Anderson (S.C.) Independent-Mail:”Wife’s family: Man Who Killed Family Not all Good!”
- Hollywood Squares Host Tom Bergeron: So, what do you do?Contestant: I teach ESL, English as a second language.Bergeron: So what do you do?
- ENTRAPMENT: “Norwegian Motorist is Slapped with Parking Ticket While Stuck in Traffic Jam” Associated Press headline
From “This is True”Larry Bostic, 52, and Wei Sun, 45, had a misunderstanding over a shopping cart at a Home Depot store in Vineland, N.J. Each took a swing at the other, but missed. The struggle then escalated into a “sword fight”, police say, after each grabbed a two-by-four. Bostic got the short end of the stick: he was hit in the face. One of his teeth was knocked out, and his chin needed eight stitches. Both men were arrested on assault charges. (Vineland Daily Journal) …They can hardly be blamed: The sign promised there was “Fencing on Aisle 12.”
NO FLY II: Barbara Vreeland of Forest Grove, Ore., called police when she heard something crash into the roof of her house. “It was a first for us,” a police spokesman said. Investigation found that a family from Washington had hired a private plane so they could scatter the ashes of their patriarch. They were holding his urn out the plane’s window and were trying to open it to pour out his ashes when they lost their grip, dropping the urn. It crashed into Vreeland’s house. “I feel for those people,” Vreeland said. “But I think some of their relative is still in our attic. … Dad’s gonna hit the roof when he hears about this.” (
Portland Oregonian)
