Friday, January 02, 2004
Excerpts (is that spelled right?) from The Washington Post's 12/28 article "The Year's Weirdest News":
-"A judge in Kansas City, Kan., granted Wesley Fitzpatrick, 23, a temporary restraining order against a woman who he said was stalking him (making him "scared, depressed, and in fear for my freedom"). The order was rescinded when the judge found out that the "stalker" was actually Fitzpatrick's parole officer (who said Fitzpatrick had been missing meetings)."
-"Six candidates for city offices in Charleston, W.Va., misspelled their party affiliations on their official filing forms ("Democart," "Democrate," "Repbulican" and "Repucican ")."
-"After failing on three previous tries, the superintendent of schools in Lawrence, Mass., Wilfredo T. Laboy, passed the state-mandated English proficiency test required of all teachers (a test which, after one of the failures, he had called "stupid")."
-"Between June and August, high school dropout Jonathan Harris, 34, acted as his own lawyer in three Philadelphia felony cases and won acquittals in them all, including one that could have sent him to death row. When a prosecutor in the capital case vowed to retry Harris on several charges that had left the jury deadlocked -- including a third-degree murder count -- Harris said, "Are you sure you don't want to quit while you're ahead?""
People are such idiots!
-"A judge in Kansas City, Kan., granted Wesley Fitzpatrick, 23, a temporary restraining order against a woman who he said was stalking him (making him "scared, depressed, and in fear for my freedom"). The order was rescinded when the judge found out that the "stalker" was actually Fitzpatrick's parole officer (who said Fitzpatrick had been missing meetings)."
-"Six candidates for city offices in Charleston, W.Va., misspelled their party affiliations on their official filing forms ("Democart," "Democrate," "Repbulican" and "Repucican ")."
-"After failing on three previous tries, the superintendent of schools in Lawrence, Mass., Wilfredo T. Laboy, passed the state-mandated English proficiency test required of all teachers (a test which, after one of the failures, he had called "stupid")."
-"Between June and August, high school dropout Jonathan Harris, 34, acted as his own lawyer in three Philadelphia felony cases and won acquittals in them all, including one that could have sent him to death row. When a prosecutor in the capital case vowed to retry Harris on several charges that had left the jury deadlocked -- including a third-degree murder count -- Harris said, "Are you sure you don't want to quit while you're ahead?""
People are such idiots!
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