Weird News
Thursday, July 08, 2004
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Recurring Themes
- Rev. Dwayne Long, 45, a Pentecostal preacher in Rose Hill, Va., died the day after being bitten on the finger by a rattlesnake during a serpent-handling sermon on April 11. He had refused treatment because, as a parishioner said later, "(I)t's the Lord's will." (According to Mark 16:17-18 in the New Testament, "(Believers) shall take up serpents and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them.") [Times-Dispatch (Richmond), 4-15-04]
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Least Competent Humans
- Lawyer Larry Feingold, 53, testified at his January trial in New York City that he was merely trying to commit suicide in 2003 when he turned on the gas in his apartment and that the subsequent blast that devastated three floors of his building caught him by surprise because he didn't know that gas could explode. "I thought gasoline did," he said, under oath, "but I didn't know about gas." And Bromley Preston, 44, filed a claim late last year after he split his head open on the water slide at The Lakes Resort at Berry Springs, in Australia, even though he admits he tried to go down the 100-foot-high slide on all fours instead of on his back, feet first. [New York Post, 1-29-04] [News Ltd. ( News.com.au ), 11-27-03]
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