Lead Stories
In November parishioners at Saint Andrew’s Church in London, England, overpowered a naked man wielding a sword after he attacked nine people during a children’s service. Also in November two former Rutgers men’s basketball team players filed a lawsuit against the school and its coach for making them run laps naked during a practice two years ago. In October a naked University of California at Santa Cruz student was hit by a car; he then commandeered it, drove off, and promptly crashed into a tree. In August a judge released Robert Norton, 76, of Pekin, Illinois, after his 19th arrest for gardening in the nude, but said he will go to jail if he is seen naked again. “I can’t [promise] anything,” Norton said.
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In August the Sunday Oklahoman revealed that the charity Feed the Children took in an extra $6 million in the 45 days after the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing due to their poignant TV ads, but gave only half that to bombing victims, investing most of the rest. Charity president Larry Jones explained that there was no proof the donors intended the money for bombing victims. The newspaper also reported that “almost none” of the $47 million raised last year by Feed the Children actually went toward feeding children.
Canadian Urinary Crises
One month before the Texas A&M bonfire tragedy, a 17-year-old University of Oklahoma football fan in Kingfisher, Oklahoma, accidentally shot himself to death while celebrating the team’s victory over Texas A&M. And in September in Smithfield, Rhode Island, a 21-year-old Bryant College student was killed when he fell three stories onto his head while trying to slide down a banister in a residence hall.
Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): illustration/Shawn Belschwender.
