Weird News: Volume Four
CHILLIN
- A 31 year old man turned himself in to Anchorage, Alaska, police in January claiming to be the fugitive "Dr Diaper," who has been appearing at local day care centers in diapers and trying to get them to take him in. Two years before, Dr Diaper contracted with a baby sitter by phone, claiming to be the parent of an 18 year old boy who had the mentality of a toddler, needed to be changed and fed, and whose bad habits (Masturbating in public) should be ignored. When the sitter arrived, the giant baby was Dr Diaper himself. On another occasion, a prospective baby sitter said Dr Diaper had come to her door once carrying his own 3 year old son because he could not find a real baby sitter for the boy while he went out on his escapade.
MAMA, HOW DO I STOP ?
- Richard Smith, 31, celebrated his release from jail in March with a dinner at the Tara Hyannis Hotel in Massachusetts. He had served 90 days for running out on nine restaurant tabs last summer. He was promptly arrested again, for running out on the $28 check at the Tara.
- John Fogleman, 30, serving time for rape in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla, was arrested in November for making obscene telephone calls from inside the jail.
- Mahad Omar, 22, who is imprisoned for robbery and assault in Kingston, Ontario, but who had been given a one day pass in December to attend a religious ceremony, was returned to jail before the day was over for robbing a woman at knife point in St. Michael's Cathedral in Toronto.
TOO WAY COOL
- James L Ramey, 53, of Clyde, North Carolina, was charged with assault in November after a 15 minute brawl at the rural Full Gospel Holiness Church. The brawl began when one person wanted to sit in the back pew, which was occupied, as usual, by a church regular. The minister's son suffered a bite to the neck that required ***31*** stitches.
- Aerospace engineer Dean Harvey Hicks of Costa Mesa, Calif, was sentenced to 20 years in prison in February as a result of his conviction for launching aerial bombs at one Internal Revenue Service building and trying to blow up three others in 1991. Hicks had become distraught that the IRS had refused to allow him to a tax deduction for an $8,000 donation to a "mail order church."
- In Quebec City, Canada, in February, Serge Pouliot was sentenced to 18 months in prison for assaulting his supervisor, who had threatened to turn Pouliot in for sleeping at work. Both men operate a X-Ray machine at a shipyard, where Pouliot committed the assault by severely X-Raying the supervisor, subjecting him to the equivalent of 20 years of on the job exposure.
SPORTS-IN-NUGEN
- In Nashwauk, Minn, Hibbing Community College beat St Paul Bible, 85-6, in football in September, amassing 764 yards total offense by passing on every single play. It would have been worse, but St Paul Bible was in a "prevent" defense the entire game.
- Among the rituals of Atlanta Braves minor-league pitcher Turk Wendell in 1991: He always crosses the foul line with a kangaroo jump; demands that the umpire roll the ball to him to start the game; chew licorice on the mound and brushes his teeth every inning; occasionally makes a pick-off throw to first base - - with no runners on; and once carried a camera to the mound in his pocket, took it out, and snapped a picture of the batter before pitching to him.
WHAT I'LL DO FOR A BUCK
- Earl H. Brockington was convicted in February of robbery in Kansas City, Mo, for an incident a year ago. He had taken a woman's purse (containing only $5) in a parking garage, then accidentally nicked the woman with his knife, provoking her to scream, whereupon four men chased him, forcing him to leap from a parking deck 25 feet to the ground, injuring his leg. He managed to hobble to, and climb under, a parked car, but the owner of the car got in a few minutes later, started it up, and ran over Brockington's feet, breaking several bones.
AWWW
- Gregory Putman, 42, a veteran sheriff's deputy who had been on inactive status since 1984 after a heart transplant, was disciplined in November by an Oregon City, Ore, judge, who lifted Putman's license to carry a concealed weapon. Putman, apparently frustrated at being shelved from "active" status, had modified his car so that it would resemble a state patrol car and had allegedly stopped at least three motorists on his own to lecture them on lawful behavior. Putman said later that he had "let the old days get the best of me."
JUST ASSHOLE WEIRD
- Richard Paul Joseph, 51, was charged with the murder of his adopted 17 year old daughter in San Bernardino, Calif, in December. He had become upset that she was abandoning the name he and his wife had given her, Dee Dee, in favor of Desiree.
