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Bizarre but true stories about real people collected by syndicated columnist Chuck Shepherd.
The Lawrence (Mass.) Eagle-Tribune reported in August that the local superintendent of schools, Wilfredo T. Laboy, had recently failed (for the third time) the basic English proficiency test required of all teachers in the state. (English is Laboy's second language.) The state education commissioner said that Laboy was doing "an excellent job" but that he was still going to have to pass the test (a test which Laboy called "stupid").
Reuters reported in June that would-be painter Rainer Herpel, 51, of Bad Ems, Germany, was finally speaking again, after having remained silent for the last 29 years as a reaction to his father's disapproval of art as a career. Herpel lived with his mother, spent most of the time alone in his room concentrating on his paintings, only occasionally ventured outdoors, and came out of his shell only when his father passed away. Said Herpel, "All great artists were outsiders (probably meaning "different from us") before they had success."
CBS News reported in June that few states have complied with the
Brady Bill requirement to list all people involuntarily
hospitalized for mental illness on the FBI computer database used
for gun purchases, with the result that 2.7 million people should
be barred from buying guns for that reason but only 90,000
are.
Send your Weird News to Chuck Shepherd, P.O. Box 18737, Tampa,
Fla. 33679 or Weird@compuserve.com
Copyright © 2001 by Chuck Shepherd
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