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Sports highlights: In September Susie Nelson, who had lived across the street from Wrigley Field, filed a lawsuit against the Cubs because she says a ballpark security camera was aimed at her bedroom window at various times over the 18 months she lived there. And electrician Randal Jay Palmer, 37, was charged with trespass in October after he allegedly set up a video-camera feed in an overhead light fixture in the Kingdome dressing room of the Seattle Seahawks cheerleaders. According to police, Palmer not only accidentally disabled the remote control, but also turned the recorder on while he was looking into the lens. Police have the tape.
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A May Atlanta Journal story on the increasing number of Web pages devoted to classified ads from prison inmates seeking romantic relationships cited an ad that read, “Aren’t you fed up with meeting all the wrong men…?In search of a truly honest and good man?” The ad writer was Ronald E. Mays, who’s serving life without parole in a California prison for first-degree murder, second-degree murder, sodomy with force, and kidnapping.
In June 1996 News of the Weird reported that construction worker Thomas W. Passmore, then 32, had filed a lawsuit for $3.35 million against a Norfolk, Virginia, hospital and four doctors over the loss of his hand. Passmore admitted to severing the hand with a power saw because he believed it was possessed by the devil and to twice refusing to allow doctors to reattach it, vowing that if they did he would just cut it off again. However, he claimed the defendants had been negligent because they ought to have persuaded his family to overrule his poor decision. In September 1997, after a 30-minute deliberation, a Norfolk jury ruled against him.
