| About four years ago David Weinlick, 28, Minneapolis, got tired of people asking him when he was going to get married, so he started to answer, "June 13, 1998." It became part of his shtick. Only one thing is missing from his upcoming wedding: a bride. Potential brides are invited to attend Weinlick`s "bridal candidate mixer" the day of the ceremony, where the grrom`s friends will screen them and their friends will screen Weinlick. There will be a vote, and Weinlick will marry the winner. |
| 3-year-old Lateef Wise, Philadelphia, PA, was left home alone last week. At about 9:30 a.m., the frightened and crying boy pushed out the screen of an open window. Then he fell from the apartment, bounced off an air conditioner protruding from a second floor window and landed on a narrow amazingly got up, began to cry and started strip of grass. After hitting the ground Lateef walking around. Lateef was later released from a local hospital with just a minor larceration. The boy was left home alone due to a miscommunication between the parents. |
| Travis Bogumill, a construction worker in Eau Claire, Wis., was shot with a nail gun that drove a 3 1/4 inch nail all the way into his skull, and the only difference he can see is that he`s not quite the math whiz he used to be. A co-worker accidentally bumped his head with the gun, and the nail went in so deep that the only thing visible was a small hole in Bogumill`s scalp. He remained conscious, turned to his co-worker and said, "You just nailed me in the head," Bogumill recalled. He said, "it felt like somebody was smacking my head repeatedly with a hammer." Doctors told Bogumill that he shouldn`t have been able to walk or talk after the accident, and that they`re baffled why he wasn`t knocked unconscious. The nail lodged in an area of the brain typically involved in processing math according to Dr. John Lamoureux. "You could give me two two digit numbers and I could multiply them within seconds in my head. But now you give me a piece of paper and multiplying 56 by 23 is still difficult," Bogumill said. |
| Norias, Texas - Six men believed to be illegal aliens from Mexico were killed by a freight train while sleeping on the tracks. "The train crew saw some debris on the tracks," said Letty Garza, a spokeswoman for the Border Patrol. "That next split-second, they saw heads raise up and then six people were killed instantly." Illegal aliens and transients sleep on the tracks because they think snakes won`t get them there. |