Jeffersonville barred convicted sex offenders from public parks.

The state Supreme Court reversed the conviction of a 37-year-old man
for statutory rape  because he was married to his 14-year-old victim --
but  let  stand  two convictions for having sex with her before they were
married, when she was 12.
                                                                [courtesy Associated Press]

Forty firefighters in the United Kingdom spent two hours res-
cuing a sheep from a ledge.  .  .  .  A study found that people
with vicious dogs have more criminal convictions than people
who own nice dogs. . . . Greenleaf, Idaho,  joined Kenesaw,
Georgia,  among towns with ordinances  requring  citizens to
own guns. . . .  Japanese women were experiencing constant
orgasm. . . .  Deep-fried American flags were removed from
an art exhibit in Tennessee. . . . Atlanta police shot and killed
a 92-year-old woman who had  shot  three  of  them  as they
burst into her house with a search warrant for drugs.

"Cynthia Parker" sent us an e-mail titled "Vaughn, Lesson #2 is here,"
 and another, two days later, titled, "Vaughn, no lesson today!"

Dean Anthony-Q10902 wrote Sun 12 Nov 2006 @14:17:42 CST:

Has the Laurel County woman  [who died of church snakebite]
been nominated for a Darwin award,  or would that not be PC?

You nominate her if you think she didn't believe.   If you think she be-
 lieved, it would be politically incorrect even to ask the question. – Ed.

Indiana State University ended a nation's-longest 24-game losing streak
in football last month by beating Missouri State — but now may have to
forfeit the game because it used an ineligible player.

Police shot and killed a deer in a downtown furniture store in Hopkinsville.

A 65-foot Norwegian spruce tree in a flower pot,  flown in from Indiana
for the Christmas season,  fell across Jefferson Street in downtown Lou-
isville  (see  photo  below,  and read Bob Hill's heartwarming Christmas
story).
                                                 [courtesy Louisville Courier-Journal]

Lisa Bonet, 39.

A buck deer destroyed a ceramic deer in a front yard in She-
boygan County,  Wisconsin.  .  .  . Fourteen  ducklings  were
stomped to death by an unknown assailant in suburban Tam-
pa, Florida. . . . Zama Ndebele, wife of Premier S'bu Ndebe-
le of South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal province, promised to re-
turn her Nguni cattl to the state in the wake of a "cows for fa-
vors" scandal. . . . Ohio State's (no "D") Buckeyes outscored
Michigan's (no "D") Wolverines 42 to 39  in college football's
(no "D") superbowl.
                                           [courtesy Harper's Weekly, AP]

"highminded" sent us an e-mail titled "Zune IPod Defense Secretary."

Tengku, an orangutan at the Fort Wayne Zoo, named his baby son
Dumadi.
                                                         [courtesy Associated Press]

A Laurel County woman died from a snake bite received at serpent
worship.
                 [courtesy Kentucky Network News, and Mark 16:18]

A policeman from Radcliff, Kentucky, shot himself in the leg while trying to
unload his pistol as he was driving south on I-65 near Lafayette, Indiana.

The government shut down its "Operation Iraqi Freedom Doc-
ument Portal" web site  after the New York Times pointed out
that it contained instructions for making an atomic bomb.  .  .  .
A  paper-shredding  service  truck  was  seen  approaching the
Cheney compound in Washington. . . .The war in Lebanon mul-
tiplied the price of marijuana in Israel by 8.  .  .  .  Chubby  girls
robbed younger children of their trick-or-treat candy in Aurora,
Colorado.

"deboralaza@borfents.com" spoofed approximately 3 million
e-mails using our "exclusive" domain name.

The first Bowling Green police officer ever to be killed in the line of duty
was shot by fellow officers as he was trying to disarm a suspect wielding
knives.
                                                                          [courtesy WKYU-FM]

"If you take out uncovered meat and place it outside,  and the cats
 come to eat it, whose fault is it, the cats' or the uncovered meat's?"

                   -- Sheik Taj Aldin al-Hilali, mufti in Sydney,
                      Australia,  speaking  of  unveiled  women

"We cannot accept the unacceptable."

             -- French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin

Los Angeles admitted that it has 1.3 million outstanding park-
ing tickets. . . . Scientists concluded that fat people lower the
fuel efficiency of automobiles.  .  .  . A pelican ate a pigeon in
London's St. James's Park.  .  .  . President Bush called Con-
gresswoman Nancy Pelosi a "secret admirer" of tax cuts. . . .
John Spencer, a candidate for the U.S. Senate in New York,
denied having called Hillary Clinton ugly.  . . .  An ex-prisoner
went trick-or-treating in his  orange  jumpsuit  in White Plains,
New York, and the local jail was locked down to count the in-
mates.  . . . Police in Johnson City, Tennessee, found that their
Tasers wouldn't budge a bull and a cow that had wandered on-
to a city street. . . . A cowboy from South Africa lassoed a bull
on a city street, in Newark, New Jersey.

                        [courtesy Harper's Weekly, Associated Press]

Anthony Chiofalo, a New York City police detective suspended
for testing positive for marijuana, explained that his wife had serv-
ed him laced meatballs  to force him into early retirement  (an ad-
ministrative law judge believed him and ordered him rehired).

                                                                            [courtesy AP]

"S. B. Woo" gets a lifetime achievement award.