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Steven Weisblat of New City, New York, filed a lawsuit in April against a recently married Armenian-American couple in Hackensack, New Jersey, for various injuries incurred while he was a guest at their wedding. According to the lawsuit, the groom was tossed into the air by inebriated guests performing a traditional dance and landed on Weisblat, who wasn’t even on the dance floor at the time.
In July the Nova Scotia gaming control commission formally banned the popular charity fund-raiser “cow-patty bingo,” in which a promoter marks a field into squares, takes bets, and then releases a recently fed cow to “select” a winning square. The commission believes the game can be rigged by training a cow to use a particular spot in the field.
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