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Jewish World Review
News of the Weird: Oops!
By
Chuck Shepherd

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A 93-year-old woman was rescued by medics in Philadelphia in April after spending several days stuck in her own toilet. (According to KYW-TV, she had to be carried out with a portion of the toilet still stuck tightly to her body.) [KYW-TV (Philadelphia), 4-5-2011]
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In Tooting, England, in May, an unnamed senior was rescued by firefighters after he got his testicles caught in a shower seat in which he was sitting while bathing. [The Guardian, 5-11-2011]
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Parkridge Medical Center in Chattanooga, Tenn., apologized and paid the bill in June for exhuming the body of the recently deceased Kenneth Manis. The man who had shared Mr. Manis' hospital room during his final days had reported that his dentures were missing, and the hospital determined that they had been mistakenly buried with Mr. Manis. [Commercial-Appeal (Memphis)-AP, 6-23-2011]
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Previously:
• The Continuing Crisis
• Bright Ideas
• OOPS!
• People With Issues
• News That Sounds Like a Joke; Inexplicable
• Can't Possibly Be True!, II
• Can't Possibly Be True!
• T-moo-I!; Unclear on the Concept
• Creme de la Weird; Least Competent Gun-Handling
• HUH!?; Questionable Judgments
• Our screwed-up world
• The Classic Middle Name (all-new!); Unclear on the Concept
• Least Competent Patient; Rights of the Disabled
• Procreation Interventions; Weird Animals
• Who says we're in a recession!?; Navel Observatory
• Fine Points of the Law; Medical Marvels
• How the Saudis hold beauty contests; The Entrepreneurial Spirit!; Noses Know
• Cliche Come to Life; art!?; worse
• I Demand My Rights!; Signs of the Times
• Compelling Explanations; 'Wrong' Impressions
• Ironies
• Least Competent Criminals
• HUH!?
• When government bombs; Bizarre art
• Chutzpah!
• Pakistan finds a use for transgendered; People With Issues
• Least Competent Criminals; Usual consequence for an unqualified student
• Why Unions Are Unpopular; Score One for Death Penalty Advocates
• Those who don't know when to shut their yap
• Overreaching
• Oops!; Wheeee!
• Least Competent Criminals; Last Words
• Inexplicable
• HUH!?
• Can't Possibly Be True!
• Zero Tolerance?; Willing to go to Indonesia to cure for emphysema?
• FANatic; what a putz literally!
• The ultimate loser; chutzpah X2
• Illegals become animals; When grow up! is not just a rebuke
• 'Good Housekeeping' for the bomber set; evolutionary hardiness in American drinkers?
• In case you are getting sentenced; when a best friend betrays
• Clever victim outwits thief
• Do names portend the future?
• Questionable Judgments
• They are definitely not US!
• Smooth Reactions; Least Competent Criminals
• People With Too Much Money
• The Entrepreneurial Spirit: Product Giveaways
• Weird Science
• Whoever said life is fair?
• Creme de la Weird; The Litigious Society
• Ironies
• Least Competent Criminals; Classic weirdness
• News That Sounds Like a Joke; The Weirdo-American Community
• Pathetic creeps
• Government in Action!
• People Different From Us; Least Competent Criminals Not Ready for Prime Time
• Not So Bright Ideas
• No Sense of Shame!
• Yikes!
• Change, the old fashioned way; Another Sovereign Citizen
• Elusive Perps; The Country Afraid of Its Own Shadow
• More Can't Possibly Be True!
• Inexplicable
• Can't Possibly Be True
• Things that make say HUH!?
• Least Competent Criminals; Classic
• SICK! SICK! SICK!
• Questionable Judgments
• All cultures are equal?
• Feeeeeeeh!
• Least Competent Criminals; She's repulsive, they're jealous
• The Entrepreneurial Spirit; Not Your Father's Scotch
• Science on the Cutting Edge
• Privacy v. art; The Continuing Crisis
• Recurring Themes; A News of the Weird Classic
• People With Issues; Least Competent Criminals
• Economics and witchcraft; Ironies
• From victims to tourist attractions; Wacky lawsuit
• Compelling Explanations
• Least Competent Criminals; People Who Ran Over Themselves
• Surprise!; 'That Was Easy!'
• Government in Action!
• Bizarre art
• Getting Old, Young; from the archives
• Undignified Deaths
• Bright Ideas; Least Competent Criminals
• Oops!; Failed to Think It Through
• The Continuing Crisis; Beloved Banker
• The ear has a G-spot
• Respect for All Cultures?
• First Things First
• Questionable State Regulation; Can't Possibly Be True
• Unclear on the Concept; Least Competent Criminals
• Where down is up; Can't Possibly Be True
• Least Competent Criminals; Things that Make You Say: Huh!?
• News That Sounds Like a Joke
• Cultural Diversity; eggs-ellent! (from the archives)
• News from Islam-land; Latest Cutting-Edge Research
• Those Ingenious Western Spies!; Cultural Diversity
• Can't Possibly Be True; Motherly Love
• Least Competent Criminals; Questionable Judgments
• This mafia really are animals; out of control businesses
• Science on the Cutting Edge
• Daring New Products
• Least Competent Criminals; from the archives
• If Life Gives You …
• Their Crimes Fit Their Names; Bright Ideas
• Latest Rights; Compelling Explanations
• One of the world's most bizarre conferences; delicious ironies
• Thinning the herd; Downgrade Cut Short; from the archives
• Cleverest Non-Humans; Medicare In Action
• Oops!; The Weirdo-American Community; Least Competent Criminals
• Life Imitates a Drew Barrymore Movie; Weird Science; Questionable Judgments
• Questionable Judgments; Great, ahem, Art!
• Fine Points of the Law; Thank Goodness for Narcissists
• Cliches Come to Life; First Things First; Fine Points of the Law
• News That Sounds Like a Joke; Suspicions Confirmed; Yikes!
• Do They Know?; Yikes!
• Catch-22 Catches Disabled Veteran; The Continuing Crisis; Best Not to Ask Why
© 2011, Chuck Shepherd. Distributed by Universal Uclick
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