A Look Back at Some Bizarre News from '98
By: TheAdvisor	Published: 01/06/1999
Cannibals victims of brain-eating disease Cannibals in the highlands of Papua New Guinea were exposed to Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease--the human equivalent of mad cow disease--which slowly eats holes in their brains before killing them. Two heads are better than one In Vietnam, a healthy, albeit two-headed baby girl was born weighing in at 8.36 pounds with two hearts, two spines, but one body with a single liver and one set of lungs. The pen really is mightier than the sword Athens police confiscated several guns shaped like key rings with "ball point pens" capable of firing .22 caliber bullets. Fires rage in Mexico smoke intoxicates Texas Uncontrolled field fires caused raging infernos throughout Mexico sending tons of black smoke over Mexico and into Texas killing many who could not handle that amount of particulate matter in the air. Generous Texans, tired of not being able to breathe offered to put out the fires for the Mexicans. Clinton would not allow it since it would be unlikely the Mexicans would reimburse Texas for the cost of putting out their fires. Later the EPA fined the state of Texas an enormous sum for exceeding federal allowable limits of pollution in the air. U.S. Ambassador to Mexico faces challenge Jeffrey Davidow, the new U.S. Ambassador to Mexico met his first hurdle: Mexicans reject the U.S. crackdown against illegal drug smuggling of heroin, cocaine and marijuana into North America. They claim it?s their right to bring it to us. Woman impregnated by dead husband An American woman asked to be impregnated with sperm taken from her husband after his death. Her actions raised ethical issues of using dead men's sperm without their consent. Transsexual sues school over transcript Vic Hrinik, who used to be a woman named Vicki Hrinki, sued his high school for refusing to change his high school transcript to reflect his new gender. The school argues that while attending school he was definitely a she and see no reason to rewrite this man?s history. U.S. dog gets first canine silicone testicles Frodo, a Chinese pug aged 16 months, was neutered and surgically implanted with the first pair of silicone testicles made for canines. The new product put out by CTI Corp. is called Neuticles Naturales. Lethal Weapons Two: Man claims dancer's breasts injured him A Florida man filed suit against a nightclub and dancer Tawny Peaks claiming her bosoms were slammed into his head giving him whiplash. Millions of men wished they could experience his unique problem. Dead woman forces runoff Oklahoma housewife Jacquelyn Ledgerwood, who died weeks before an election at the age of 69, still managed to win more than 20 percent of the vote in the Democratic primary for a U.S. Senate seat. Her death came after ballots were printed and no time was available to remove her name. Despite this, she raked in more than 56,000 votes, or 21.4 percent of the total, to take second place in a field of four candidates. Colonel killed testing "bullet-proof" belt A colonel in the Ivory Coast army was killed by gunfire as he tested a "magic" belt supposedly with powers to protect him from bullets. That's the Spirit Lithuanian alcohol producers reported falling of profits and local police discovered why - a nearly 2 mile pipeline smuggling high proof spirits from neighboring Latvia. Police discovered a well of the contraband alcohol flowing via an underground plastic pipeline from Latvia. The crafty smugglers had even installed a pump to propel the spirits. Man drowns in sewage after pig mishap A 19-year-old drowned in sewage after helping pull his father out of a cesspit where he had climbed to rescue a pig in Padua, Italy. Andrea Rizzo rushed to his father's aid after he was overcome by fumes rescuing a pig which had fallen into a pit normally covered by a metal grille. Is this perfume French? A Zimbabwean man was jailed for a month after pleading guilty to bottling his urine and selling it as perfume. A woman bought two bottles on the street without testing it only to later realize she had been duped when she tried the acrid elixir out at home. Why not join the rest of us on the inside and get all of Goofball.com?
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