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In March William Walker was charged in Albuquerque with trying to hack through an apartment door with an ax after the resident said he wasn’t interested in buying speakers from him. And in April two women were preparing for trial after being charged with murder in Frankfurt, Germany, for allegedly torturing and stabbing to death an underachieving male colleague in their door-to-door magazine-sales group.
According to a May report in the New York Times, biologists and New Jersey authorities still do not know why the artificial grass at Giants Stadium “died” last year. The AstroTurf turned from green to blue and then began falling out in large clumps. The best guess so far is that the culprit was a fungus of some kind.
In February, according to an Agence France-Presse report, Cairo lawyer Mustafa Raslan filed a $1 billion lawsuit in Damanhur, Egypt, against President Clinton, claiming that Clinton’s alleged sexual antics make it more difficult for him to raise his own children with good moral standards. “I don’t know what to tell [them],” he said. In December Sheik Buddy Rasheed, the mayor of Bassilya, Jordan, told reporters he wanted to sue Clinton for naming his dog Buddy, but that he was having trouble finding a lawyer to take the case.
In a March story on internal theft in the local school system, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reported on Edwards Elementary School employee Ernestine Falls, who in 1994 stole a refrigerator from the school and then, when she realized it was broken, called a worker from the school system’s maintenance department to come fix it. The worker told Falls he knew the refrigerator was stolen, but she didn’t offer him hush money or even a tip for the repair job. Not surprisingly, he ratted her out.
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