INDIA - Do you know what to do if you are suddenly bitten by
a poisonous snake? No matter what your answer is, chances are
it wasn't "Cut off bitten limb." While trimming plants in his
back garden, a doctor accidentally cut a hidden cobra in
two... but not before the venomous serpent sank his fangs into
the man's palm. After attempting to shake off the severed
snake, the doctor panicked and proceeded to chop off his the
hand that the cobra had latched on to. Though his hand could
not be saved, the doctor's bizarre reaction may have saved his
life.

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Arkansas assemblyman Jim Lendall wished to use $3,000 of
state money to play lotteries in other states to erase the
budget shortfall.

Maryland's house created a bill to make walking the official
exercise of the state.

The city council of Bend, Oregon proposed banning smelly
people from city buses.

The mayor of Mount Sterling, Iowa, wanted to ban lying.

The Pennsylvania house and senate fiercely debated whether
sugar or chocolate chip should be the official state cookie.

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Parents of students at Livingston (Tenn.) Middle School have filed a federal lawsuit against Overton County after they learned that the school had installed security cameras in both the boys' and girls' locker rooms. They say the computerized system housed in
Assistant Principal Robert Jolley's office was connected to the
Internet, and he hadn't bothered to change the factory default
password. Thus, they say, photos of students aged 10-14 "in various stages of undress" were available online to anyone who knew about the system. Apparently a number of people did know: computer logs show access from several states. (Nashville Tennessean) ...So plenty of people were "getting their Jolleys".

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BOTTOM HEAVY: Julie Charbonneau knew her children weren't safe around the bedroom window in her apartment in Ottawa, Ont., Canada, since it didn't have a screen -- and she was on the 10th floor. She kept the bedroom door locked, so when she saw one day it was open she panicked.
Sure enough, Mick, not even 2 years old, had fallen out. "He's a very lucky kid," said his father, Shawn Dinelle. The boy suffered only a broken leg from his 10-storey plunge. What kept him from more serious injury or death? "I think it's his diaper that saved him," Dinelle says, adding it was "full". (Ottawa Citizen) ...The key word being "was".

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Curtis Shannon was a bus driver for the New York City Transit
Authority. About six weeks after starting his job he was involved in a minor accident. Part of normal procedure required Shannon to get a medical clearance to go back to work, but he failed his eye exam -- he was found to be color blind, and unable to distinguish traffic light colors. Shannon was given an exhaustive series of tests by several different doctors, including two consulting ophthalmologists not employed by the NYCTA, who confirmed his inability to see color correctly.
Shannon was given a choice: resign his position or be fired. He resigned, but filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission claiming that he was not given "reasonable accommodation" to do his job per the Americans with Disabilities Act -- even though he denies being color blind. He also filed suit against the NYCTA claiming discrimination
on the basis of the "disability" he denied having. The court threw out the suit, and Shannon appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals. The appeals court agreed with NYCTA policy -- and U.S. Department of Transportation rules for commercial drivers -- that a bus driver being able to properly distinguish the color of traffic lights is an "essential function" of a his job, and that a "reasonable accommodation can never involve the elimination of an essential function of a job." It found the lower court's finding that Shannon could not distinguish the different colors of traffic lights was reasonable, considering the testimony of several different doctors, and upheld the dismissal of Shannon's case -- to the considerable relief of every pedestrian, driver and bus passenger in the city.
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Finding a job is tough these days, especially if your rec-
ords say you are dead. Unemployed driver Marcio Freitas da
Silva of Brazil discovered this when he tried to find a job.
The problem came in when another man of the same name and
age died three years ago, coroners wrote the names of the
living da Silva's parents on the death certificate. "It's
a humiliating situation when others make mistakes and I have
to prove that I'm alive," da Silva said. He had been told
that a dead man "cannont drive vehicles on federal high-
ways." Although the civil registry office has revitalized
da Silva, most government offices have not yet received the
new documents.

An unsuspecting chicken named Amelia was harnassed to 100
helium balloons and sent aloft last Saturday in San Fran-
cisco by an anonymous pranster. Amelia wafted into a tangle
of power lines and was rescued by a police marksman, who
shot pellets at the balloons and brought her down. She was
taken to the nearby animal shelter to be adopted. Kat
Brown, deputy director of the shelter, remarked, "This is a
great chicken, a friendly chicken, a chicken that is ready
for a relationship." Apparently being sent flying through
the air makes a chicken ready for companionship.

NEILLSVILLE, Wis. - One man may have pulled the worst fake-gun
robbery attempt of all time at a pharmacy in Wisconsin. As if
putting your thumb and forefinger in your pocket to simulate
a concealed weapon weren't bad enough, this guy forgot the
whole 'pocket' part. The masked man allegedly tried to rob the
place by forming his gloved hand into the shape of a gun. A
witness said the suspect didn't bother to hide his pointed
finger under a jacket or anything. Not fooling the pharmacy
owner one bit, he bravely wrestled with the suspect and ripped
off his mask. The accused would-be robber ran away and was
arrested a short time later. After having his mask torn off,
he was easy to 'point' out.

In August 1999, Lori Lynn Lomeli set a record by spinning 82
Hula Hoops at the same time for three full revolutions.

Steve Fletcher holds the record for the largest gum wrapper
collection. His collection has 5300 gum wrappers from all
across the world.

The largest number of children born to one woman, who was a
Russian peasant, is 69.

The longest kiss on record lasted 30 hours and 45 minutes.
Dror Orpaz and Carmit Tsubara recorded it on April 5, 1999
at a kissing contest held in Tel Aviv, Israel.

The smallest man ever was Gul Mohammed (1957-1997) of India,
who measured 1 feet, 10S inches.

The tallest woman that ever lived was Zeng Jinlian who was 8
feet 2 inches tall of China. She died at the age of 17.

The world record for donut eating is held by John Haight,
who ate 29 donuts (52 ounces) in a little over six minutes.

The world record for finishing the Rubik's cube is 16.5 sec-
onds.

The world record for time without sleep is 264 hours (11
days) by Randy Gardner in 1965.

NEW YORK - In a follow-up to a recent bizarre story about a
woman who beat her ex-lover to death with her shoe, the jury
has thrown out the manslaughter charges against her. The
accused, Anna Rhinehart, told police she fought her assailant
in self-defense after he punched her in the mouth, knocking
out her two front teeth. According to her lawyer, Darren
Fields, "She didn't do anything to contribute to Mr. Bonds'
death and the grand jury looked at the evidence and came back
with the decision." It appears that the shoe of justice has
slipped onto the right foot in this case.