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...surprised last week when I wasn't as outraged as almost everyone else seemed to be over the case of James Turner, 44, who found himself the unwitting victim of a global-positioning-system (GPS) device implanted in a minivan he leased from Acme Rent-a-Car in New Haven, Conn. Turns out the bug recorded him speeding in three states at rates from 78 m.p.h. to 83 m.p.h. Each violation, digitally recorded, automatically added a $150 charge to his bill...
...handsome American TV journalist named Patrick Wallingford is covering a story at the Great Ganesh Circus in Junagadh, India, when his left hand is chewed off by a famished lion. The accident, caught on tape and rebroadcast repeatedly by Wallingford's all-news cable network, makes the victim luridly famous and an object of sympathy to millions of female viewers. One of them, Doris Clausen of Green Bay, Wis., goes so far as to offer her husband Otto's left hand, in the event of his death, as a replacement for Wallingford's. Sure enough, Otto accidentally shoots himself dead...
Police said the suspect, a six foot two inch tall black male with a muscular build, short cropped hair and puffy cheeks, intended to rape the victim, but her screams scared him away...
...More than ten weeks after Levy was last seen or heard from, authorities are sure of one thing: The intern was the victim of foul play. Suicide is almost certainly out at this point. Even if she leapt from a bridge, says one agent, "You can't go jumping into the water this time of year without coming up looking like the Goodyear Blimp...
...before. Just this week three girls from Boonville, California - two 8 year-olds and one 9 year-old - were charged with attempted murder for allegedly sneaking pellets of gopher poison into the lunch sandwich of a classmate. They said they did it simply because they didn't like the victim...