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In April Rene Joly, 34, filed a lawsuit in Toronto against several drugstore chains and the Canadian defense minister, charging that they conspired to kill him by putting poisons in his prescriptions and a microchip in his brain. In May he told reporters, “Genetically speaking, I’m a Martian,” having been cloned from material recovered from NASA missions. The college-educated Joly apparently impressed some reporters with his eloquence and respectable demeanor, but one defense lawyer said Joly “has watched too many episodes of The X-Files.”
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Police in Winnipeg confiscated 800 marijuana plants from a storage locker when the owner forgot to pay the rent. In Santa Clara, California, the robbery of a gun range was foiled when an employee shot the suspect in the shoulder. A dairy farmer, distraught over his son’s recent suicide at Niagara Falls, wielded a 3,000-gallon manure spreader in a standoff with Falls police and threatened to hose down tourists. And Americans Billy Mitchell and Steve Keiner quietly added to the nation’s sports history: Mitchell posted the first perfect game in the 19-year history of Pac-Man in Weirs Beach, New Hampshire, and in Coney Island Keiner wrested the Mustard Yellow International Belt from a Japanese man by eating 20 hot dogs in 12 minutes.
