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Dave Ten Eyck of Anniston, Alabama, was injured recently after he attempted to replace a fuse in his Chevy pickup with a .22-caliber rifle bullet because it was a perfect fit.) When electricity heated the bullet, it went off and shot Ten Eyck in the knee.
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Astrophysicist John Middleditch told an American Association for the Advancement of Science audience in February that a signal thought a year ago to be the fastest-spinning object in the universe (and thus the subject of many scientific papers) was just reception from a TV monitor in the Chilean observatory where the “spinning object” had been discovered. Someone had forgotten to turn it off.
The January 8 crime column in the Wisconsin State Journal reports that a Madison police officer was called to an apartment to settle a dispute between two women over ownership of three pairs of underpants that did not seem to be either woman’s size. The smaller woman said she bought larger because she expects to get pregnant; the larger woman said she normally wears a larger size but would put these on for the officer to show that she could fit into them. The officer confiscated the underpants.
Singer Johnny Paycheck asked the Ohio Supreme Court in December to reduce the nine-year sentence he is serving for a 1985 shooting. The story goes that the shooting victim asked Paycheck if he wanted to eat deer meat and turtle soup, and Paycheck responded by shooting him in the head yelling, “What do you think I am, a country hick?”
