Melanie Griffith (Forever Lulu, Bonfire of the Vanities) now thinks smoking marijuana with her son, who later became an addict, was a mistake. The actress, who television host Lorraine Kelly says “has a face like a catfish,” vows never to share drugs with her other two kids.
Two sisters, aged 24 and 20, are accused of hanging a cat in front of children at a Sunbury, Pennsylvania, playground earlier this month. Children who were at the playground told police the sisters killed a cat named Garfield by hanging the struggling animal with a cord.
An Indiana teenager claims a police officer paid him five dollars to get shocked with a Taser. Some other kids claim the officer offered to put a hundred dollar bill at their feet for them to keep if they could reach down and grab it before he shocked them with the Taser.
The Canadian Continence Foundation has declared November Incontinence Awareness Month to bring attention to the close to 3 million Canadians who avoid sports, sex, laughing, coughing, sneezing, working, lifting, travelling due to inability to control urination.
76-year-old grandmother Marjorie Graham was walking toward the entrance of a grocery store in Hornell, New York, when a fast moving whitetail deer knocked her to the pavement. Graham was hospitalized with a broken wrist and bruises. The deer fled into a nearby swamp.
Boy Scouts on a weekend outing on October 19 found a severed head in a plastic garbage bag that had been apparently tossed from a nearby road. The St. Croix County Sheriff’s Department in Wisconsin has opened a homicide investigation into the head which it believes to be between two months to a year old.
Around 100,000 people, including Al Sharpton, attended a march around the White House to protest US proposals to remove Saddam Hussein from power. Marchers were relieved that the capture of the DC area sniper earlier in the week made people feel safe enough to attend the event.
You are currently browsing the archives for the month October, 2002
