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| This site presents strange happenings and the strange twists of the human mind. |
| Friday,January 12,2001
TORONTO-A snowstorm that snarled air traffic, helped police capture a doctor wanted on a 15-year-old murder charge in the United States. Pilice say Jacqueline Camille Robinson, 41, has been hopping from country to country since 1985 to avoid arrest in the shooting death of a Howard University medical professor. Robinson has been living in Canada for almost a year. On December 30, her flight from Canada to visit the Bahamas was cancelled by the snowstorm. She was booked on another flight that stoped in Miami. During the routine screening by U.S. CUSTOMS OFFICIALS, IT WAS DISCOVERED SHE WAS WANTED ON THE MURDER INDICTMENT CHARGE IN THE UNITED STATES. Since 1985, Robinson has been wanted for second-degree murder charge for the shooting death of her former lover Henry Lloyd Garvey, who was her medical
professor at Howard University
in Washington D.C. Garvey was shot; and died in 1985. |
| Friday,January 12,2001
KEYES, Okla.- An escaped Oklahoma inmate in a stolen van got so lost that he called 911, and asked to be taken back to prison. Ronald Thomas, 38, of Oklahoma City, escaped from a work crew on Tuesday, while serving a 12-year burglary sentence at a state prison in desolate northwestern Oklahoma. He had driven a Correction Department van 150 miles north to Garden City, Kansas, before making the call to authorities from a convenience store. He was promptly arrested. He now faces charges of escape and stealing a vehicle. |
Sunday,January 7,2001
MALAGA, Spain-
A pregnant woman watching an Epiphany parade(symbilizing the arrival of the Three Kings with gifts for the baby Jesus)went into labor; and gave birth in the street, news reported on Saturday. The mother and the infant boy are in good condition, as reported by the news agency Efe. The 35-year-old woman started having contractions as she watched the parade in the southern town of Benalmadena in Malaga province, and tried to make it to the hospital; but the crowd was too clustered for her to move fast enough. She sat down on a bench, and waited for the Red Cross; and eventually gave birth on the same bench, as reported by Efe. |
| Thursday,December 21,2000
MAPUTO, Mozambique- The baby girl born in a tree during the catastrophic floods that hit Mozambique earlier this year, has been given a new house by the government. Virginia Matabele, minister of social welfare, presented a three-bedroom house on Monday, to 9-month-old Rositha Chirindza and her family. Rositha was born on the first day of March in a tree where her mother had sought refuge from the flooding that was reported to have killed about 700 people. |
| MONDAY, DECEMBER 11,2000
CHICAGO-A 6-year-old boy was removed from his mother's custody, because she was still breast feeding him when he was 5 years of age, allegedly against his wishes. The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services took the child in July after a baby sitter called a child-abuse hot line. Champaigne County Circuit Judge Ann Einhorn is scheduled to hear the case. DCFS investigators said the boy told them he no longer wanted to breast-feed; but the mother, 32, said her son never indicated he wanted to stop. She denied any allegations of the abuse. |
| Monday, November 27,2000
LITTLETON,N.H.-A rare American $20 note, now worth $250,000 or more, was safely hidden in a desk drawer of the owner. The 1866 certificate was discovered by its owner, who lives in the Connecticut River Valley of New Hampshire and Vermont. He inquired about the value of the old American money, that was passed down through his family. |
| Monday, October 30,2000
SHEFFIELD,England- Butchers from a British food processing company, completed a world-record-breaking sausage on Sunday; measuring nearly 37 miles. Working around the clock for 42 hours, 50 employees of Hazelwood Foods packed 19 metric tons of meat into the sausage, which was officially measured at 36.754 miles. Its length surpassed the previous record holder, made in Canada in 1995, by about 8 miles. The sausage will be broken into sections, and sold through a local supermarket chain. Proceeds estimated to reach $30.000, will be given to charity. |
| Monday, October 23,2000
HIALEAH-A would-be burglar got stuck overnight inside a gunky restaurant ventilator, with feet dangling above the stove, foiling his intended burglary for the eatery.Gustavo Rivera was rescued on Saturday, then arrested for burglary after being stuck eight hours inside the greasy and slick shaft, with his arms above his head and legs, dangling between the grates.Ribera shouted "Get me out of here!" over and over, again and again into the empty Barbara Cafeteria throughout the night; until finally a passer-by heard him shortly after 7 a.m., and called 911.Due to the grease, Fire Rescue had difficulty getting him out of his self made trap. Firefighters took 30 minutes to rescue him, using a ladder, a rope, and pulling him straight up and out into the arms of the law.Ribera told police he started his climb down the shaft at about 11 p.m. on Friday. |
| Friday, December 22,2000
LOS ANGELES-A 25-year-old woman threw her young daughters to their deaths from a courthouse roof; then made a suicide leap after sheriff's deputies failed to talk her down and back inside. The (unfortunate) girls, ages 5 and 7, were found on a fourth floor ledge; and died shortly after they were taken to the hospital Wednesday afternoon. Their mother died after falling all nine floors from the top of the Los Angeles County Court building. No names were released. Also, authorities said the woman's motive was not clear; though she and her husband had been in court earlier on Wednesday for an eviction hearing. The problem was resolved when the family agreed to payments allowing them to stay in their Los Angeles home. |
| Friday, October 13, 2000BROCKTON,Mass.-A 15-year-old boy who was barred from school for wearing girls' clothing; including padded brassiere,wigs and high heels can now return to class, a judge ruled. The student, identified in court records as "Pat Doe," can also wear any clothing or accessories that any other male or female student may wear, Judge Linda Giles said on Wednesday.South Junior High School had forbidden the boy to attend school in female dress; calling it disruptive. The student was suspended three times for using the girls' restroom, after being warned not to do so.The school referred him to a therapist; who in 1999 diagnosed him with gender identity disorder. The therapist said requiring him to wear boys' clothing could harm his mental health. |
| -Friday, September 22, 2000-JARRATT, Va.---Three monkeys hurled bananas and crab apples at cars on Interstate 95--then fled into the woods, the police reported. Police believe the monkeys had escaped while been taken to the state fair in Richmond, or a circus in North Carolina. State trooper Mike Scott was flagged down on Sunday by a driver who had pulled over near Jarratt. "When I walked up to the car, it looked like a banana had been smeared on the side," Scott said. The woman told him that a monkey had thrown the fruit about a mile back. "I STARTED LAUGHING," SCOTT said. When he drove to the scene of the attack, he found a van and a station wagon on the side of the highway. "A man said, I know this sounds crazy, but a monkey threw an apple at our car," Scott said. |
| Monday,February 14,2000
KANDAHAR,Afghanistan-Thousands of people observed on Sunday, as a 10-year-old boy piblicly executed a man convicted by an Islamic court of murdering his father. In a sports stadium in southern Kandahar, the boy shot the man, identified as Hashim, four times with a rifle. Under the Taliban's strict interpretation of Islam, relatives of a victim carry out the death sentence. The boy who was the eldest member of the family, was applauded by his mother, sister and 6-year-old brother after the execution. |
| Wednesday, January 5, 2000Albuquerque. N.M.- For 16 years, Patricia White Bull was unresponsive to the world. On Christmas Eve, she suddenly snapped back to consciousness. Doctors have no explanation as to why White Bull, 42, awakened from the catatonic state she slipped into while delivering her fourth child. Her mother, Snowflake Flower, said it was a Christmas miracle from God. Since then, White Bull has been speaking her children's names, catching up on family developments and spending lots of time just watching her children and smiling. |
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