September 13, 2004

News is stranger than fiction

Posted by tomo at 06:43 PM in humor . | 1 Comments

A 30-year-old patient was awarded $2.1-million by a jury in Spokane, Wash., after evidence that neuropsychiatrist Donald Dudley (who died before trial) tried to chemically erase part of the man's brain and turn him into a trained killer.

Also:

A barroom gunfight was averted in El Paso, Texas, when an inebriated man, waving a pellet gun in his prosthetic arm, watched as the arm fell off and went tumbling to the floor.

And of course:

A 22-year-old Columbus, Ohio man was killed when he stopped his car in traffic and walked back to the driver behind him to express his road rage. He was hit by a car in the next lane.

[News of the Weird]

Comments

Damn. Why can't Columbus make the news in a good way? 'Columbus scientists discover the cure for hemmoroids'. That's a headline you'll never see. It's more likely to be 'Columbus scientists find way to irritate hemmoroids and video tape it'. Are we that dumb? I dream we aren't, but then I wake up.

Posted by: jt at September 17, 2004 1:05 AM