Weird Fact of the
Month
3/09
Neither rain, nor snow, nor lost mail...
A woman's postcard bearing greetings from Montana has finally
arrived
in northeastern Ohio — 47 years later.
A man opened his post office
box in the community of Hudson last week
and found the mailing sent from Helena, Mont., in 1962. It was sent
to
Marion White, the previous renter of the box, who had died in 1988.
The
writer signed the postcard "Fran" and mentioned having "had
a marvelous
time in Montana."
After asking around, the man determined the card must have come from
White's well-traveled friend Frances Murphey, a longtime reporter at
the
Akron Beacon Journal. She died in 1998 at age 75.
A U.S. Postal Service
spokesman says the postcard may have been stuck
in equipment or lost behind a mail chute.
(How
many times have you returned from vacation before the
postcards even arrived? I am assuming that Fran returned before
her card was delivered.)
This
story came from msnbc.com's home page this month.
2/09
A little off the back, not a SHOT in the back:
A Pennsylvanian
hair stylist is accused of shooting a client in the
back after complaining about her haircut.
A 28 year old woman was getting her hair cut at the home of the
stylist when the two began arguing about the style.
The stylist then when into her bedroom, got a gun and fired a shot
in the ceiling. The customer who tried to flee with her sister, was
shot in the lower back. She did not receive life-threatening injuries.
(moral of the story: just say "fine" if
someone asks how it looks)
This
story came from msnbc.com's 'Weird News of 2008' from the Associated Press
1/09
Who's in the Closet?
A homeless Tokyo,
Japan woman was finally arrested after living in
a man's closet undetected for a year. The man became suspicious
when food mysteriously began disappearing.
Police found a 58-year-old woman hiding in the top compartment of
the closet and arrested her for trespassing.
The resident of the home installed security cameras that transmitted
images to his mobile phone after becoming puzzled by food
disappearing from his kitchen over the past several months. One of
the cameras captured someone moving around inside his home and
assumed it was a burglar. When Police arrived, they found all the
doors and windows closed and locked so they started to search the
home. When they slid open the shelf closet, there she was, nervously
curled up on her side.
The woman had no place to live and found the man's home unlocked
one day and snuck into his home. She had moved a mattress into the
small closet space and apparently even took frequent showers. The
police described her as neat and clean.
This
story came from msnbc.com's 'Weird News of 2008' from the Associated Press
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