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In February Canadian sculptor Helen Chadwick, 38, offered her “Piss Flowers” creations–bronze casts of streams of urine–for around $2,000 each. The artist described the making of her work to England’s Guardian: “I would build a mound of snow with a good density and then urinate in the middle of it. Then I would get a man to encircle my urine with a stream of his own. The shapes would be like petals with a series of droplets.” She then made a plaster cast of the work, creating a series of 12 “flower” sculptures.
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Kevin Ray Goodrie, 29, was arrested in May after escaping from a prison in Bismarck, North Dakota, seven days earlier. Goodrie was found hiding out in the woods near Duluth, Minnesota, by sheriff’s deputy James Peterson, who had gone into the woods looking for a fawn injured by a passing motorist.
In July Edward Amezquita, 31, died of smoke inhalation when he slept through a fire at his girlfriend’s house in Norfolk, Virginia. His girlfriend said, “I hit him on the chest about three times and was screaming to him to wake up.” She said he woke just long enough to tell her to leave him alone.
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