Bits & Pieces

 

Bits and pieces from this reporter’s notebook.

Da-deet-da-deet-deet.....A man shouting "Jesus will save you!" in Chinese chose the wrong audience. It was a lion. The man had jumped into a big cat enclosure at a Taipei zoo, which explains his choice of languages. He was clawed and bitten but survived, ultimately saved, by zoo officials neither of whom was named Jesus. So far, no word on whom the cats have chosen to save them.

Da-deet-da-deet-deet....Animals in Brazil got slapped down. A legislator proposed a law that would make it illegal to give pets names that are common among people. His reason? Psychologists say that some children get depressed when they learn that they have to share their first name with someone’s pet. Thank goodness my boys Fido and Rover don’t live in Brazil.

Da-deet-da-deet-deet....Someone who might wish he was in Brazil, or perhaps Taiwan, is a 46-year-old Maryland money manager who was convicted on 23 counts of fraud and other crimes relating to his use of state retirement system funds to help jack up the stock price of his own sinking on-line investment company. After being sentenced to 7-and-a-half years in prison, the man declared, "With this crucifixion, there will be resurrection."

Da-deet-da-deet-deet....Someone who should have shunned the limelight, didn’t and got caught. A southern California rape suspect appeared on a nationally-syndicated TV show called "Blind Date." Apparently one of the viewers was his victim. She recognized him and called the cops who pinched the perp shortly thereafter.

Da-deet-da-deet-deet....Finally, authorities are trying to figure out why an F-16 fighter pilot strafed a New Jersey school with 20mm cannon fire in the middle of the night last week. Two dozen rounds were fired, eight penetrating a classroom, no one was hurt. There was a target area several miles away. The National Guard, whose plane and pilot was involved, is refusing to comment.

And that’s SetonnoteS...I’m Tony Seton.

 

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