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November 29, 2007
MORE BAD NEWS
In interviews with reporters from McClatchy Newspapers in October, cemetery workers in Najaf, Iraq, lamented the recent downturn in violence in that city, as they admitted having grown accustomed to the income from the estimated 6,500 caskets a month that they serviced. The number had fallen to less than 4,000 a month, and others dependent on the death industry around Najaf were said to be similarly suffering.
WHAT GOES AROUND, COMES AROUND
Tajuan Bullock, 33, was allegedly caught in the act of burglarizing a home in Montgomery, Ala., in October. While the resident held him at gunpoint for police, Bullock had to clean up the mess he had made when he was rummaging for valuables. And police in Bakersfield, Calif., came to the aid of a man and a woman at the bottom of the Panorama Bluffs near town and told reporters later that the man had attempted to toss his girlfriend over the cliff but that she grabbed him, and the pair tumbled down 300 feet together (he was hurt worse than she).
COMPELLING EXPLANATIONS
Anthony Azzapardi, 80, agreed in September in Bridgeport, Conn., to plead guilty in connection with a sexual encounter with a five-year-old girl. Until recently, his story was that the girl had aggressively led him by the hand into the bedroom, pushed him down on the bed, and sexually assaulted him.
WHAT A TROOPER
Monsignor Tommaso Stenico, an official with the Vatican's Congregation for the Clergy, was suspended in October when he was recognized in a hidden-camera TV documentary about gay priests. However, he told the La Repubblica newspaper in Rome a few days later that he is not gay, but was only pretending to make sexual advances to a man in order to gain the trust of "those who damage the image of the Church with homosexual activity."
THE GREAT TEXAS OUTDOORS
In August, entomologists found a spider web in a state park about 45 miles east of Dallas that covered trees, shrubs and the ground along a 200-yard stretch. The original white web had turned brownish because "millions" of mosquitoes had been trapped in it. And in September, wildlife experts tried to assure the public that the jellylike blobs ("millions of tiny organisms known as zooids," wrote The Dallas Morning News) attached to trees and dock pilings along Grapevine Lake between Dallas and Fort Worth were harmless.
THE POOR DEAR!
A federal magistrate in Tampa, Fla., ordered a doctor's appointment in October for the incarcerated Brian Wilcox, who is being detained on several child pornography charges. He said that his back hurt from a four-year-old injury; that he has problems with his eyes; that his feet and groin area are numb; that there is a bulge on the left side of his groin; that he is worried about a mole on his nose because of his family history of cancer; that all of his remaining 16 teeth are either decaying or cracking (keeping him from eating, causing him to lose 40 pounds); and that he has "severe flatulence at all times." MTW
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