BLESSING OF THE WEEK A Louisiana House committee approved a
bill allowing concealed weapons to be carried in churches and temples, but the measure fell short of passage in the full House by eight votes. Rep. Harry Burns, who introduced the bill, said he would reintroduce it. Rep. Walker Hines, who amended the bill to prohibit the carrying of a firearm at a church on a school campus, said he would not want to see Burns’ bill apply to “cults and fringe groups.” (New Orleans’s The Times Picayune)
LITTLE THINGS MEAN A LOT Authorities in Indonesia’s Papua announced
that applicants to join the police or military would be rejected if they’ve had their organs artificially enhanced. Papua police chief Bekto Suprapto said that unnaturally large penises cause “hindrance during training.” A sexolo- gist quoted by The Jakarta Globe said Papuans often wrap their penis with leaves from the gatal-gatal (itchy) tree so that it swells up “like it has been stung by a bee.” (Reuters)
TO SERVE MAN An Australian publisher had to destroy
copies of a cookbook because a recipe called for “salt and freshly ground black people” instead of black pepper. “When it comes to the proofreader, of course they should have picked it up,” Bob Sessions of Penguin Group Aus- tralia said, “but proofreading a cookbook is an extremely difficult task.” (BBC News)
FETISHES ON PARADE Police who arrested Sherwin Shayegan
on a drug warrant in Tualatin, Ore., said the convicted felon had befriended student athletes and offered them money to give him piggy- back rides. “We received communication from several schools that this individual had talked his way into their locker room, had pictures taken, had a ball autographed, had gone out to the parking lot and got piggyback rides from some of the players,” said Tom Welter, execu- tive director of the Oregon School Activities Association. Detectives in Bonney Lake, Wash., said Shayegan also made friends with a football player there, “gave him a manila envelope full of odd amounts of money, then jumped on his back and told him he wanted a piggyback ride.” (Portland’s KGW-TV News) A 27-year-old Oklahoma City man told
police he was sexually assaulted by a man he met online while seeking a “friend” who shares his “fetish for flatulence.” After exchanging phone numbers and text messages with graphic sexual questions, the victim said he agreed to meet the man because he agreed to “fart for me.” (The Oklahoman)
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