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In March four strippers at the Scene Karaoke and Coconut Karaoke bars in Pattaya, Thailand, received $80 in indecency fines for an act in which live ducklings were placed inside plastic “eggs” (with air holes) and inserted into the women’s bodies. In the course of their routines they would “lay” the eggs, which would then “hatch.”
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In Knoxville, Tennessee, a Breathalyzer company executive testifying in a DUI trial in September disputed the defendant’s contention that an untimely belch yielded a false positive reading, declaring, “I frankly have never seen a belch that brought alcohol up into the oral cavity.”
Kevin Carter, 21, and Michael Harrison, 26, were charged with murder and armed robbery in Boynton Beach, Florida, in December. The two said they were trying to raise money to attend the police academy.
The famously dysfunctional Sexton family, headed by Eddie and Estella of Canton, Ohio, and Tampa, Florida, made News of the Weird in 1994 and 1996 based on charges of incest, child molestation, and murder. In March 1997, after two years in a Florida state mental hospital, son Willie, 26, was found competent to stand trial for killing his sister’s husband. Eddie allegedly ordered the killing because he feared the husband would turn him in for killing the man’s baby. Ostensibly, the dead baby was Eddie’s grandson, but according to trial testimony in a case against Estella, the baby was actually Eddie’s son, the result of a coupling between father and daughter.
