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In Tokyo last June Hamamatsu City Zoo officials began showing nonstop videos of mating gorillas to a female gorilla, Daiko, to stimulate her interest in her mate, Sho. After two weeks officials reported that the two were copulating occasionally but that Daiko was not yet pregnant. (A zoo in Kyoto once claimed success in using a video to get a mother gorilla to nurse her young.)
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At a Bowery subway station in New York City in September Darryl Washington and Maria Ramos were injured when a train plowed into them as they were having sex on a mattress on the tracks. Washington suffered several fractured bones, and Ramos got away with only minor cuts because the quick-acting motorman was able to slow the train.
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Last April in Jacksonville, Florida, Marvin Lee Jones narrowly escaped death when a gun held to his head did not fire, but his assailant shot him in the right leg shortly afterward. Police said the gunman was Jones’s son, 13, who was angry that his dad wouldn’t pay back the $10 he owed him.
