Friday, June 1, 2007
Not-lanta News of the Weird: Names in the news
Posted by Chuck Shepherd on Fri, Jun 1, 2007 at 3:17 AM
1) The Des Moines, Iowa, woman who was the victim in December of an Iowa Methodist Medical Center policy on disposal of amputated body parts (the woman wanted to take her toe with her): Gladys Goose.
2) The 41-year-old woman charged with assault in February, in a suburb of Tampa, Fla., after she allegedly grabbed a high-heeled shoe and smacked her boyfriend in the head several times: Kari Barefoot.
3) The name dog breeders apparently give to the increasingly common crossbreed of a shih tzu with a bulldog (according to a March story in London’s Guardian): bullshih.
© 2007 Chuck Shepherd
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