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STATE TO DECIDE IF 'IDIOTS' CAN VOTE

Under the New Mexico state constitution, drafted in 1912, "idiots" and "insane" persons are not allowed to vote. New Mexicans will vote on a ballot question to strike this clause. Without it, "idiots" and "insane" people will have a constitutional opportunity to also cast votes for one of their own.

Bad Luck Story
A Dutch truck driver was involved in a crash (not his fault) just three days before he was going to hold a party to celebrate one million kilometers of accident free driving. He is disappointed. "After driving nearly a million kilometers without having one single accident I wanted to celebrate," he says, sadly.
Het Laatste Nieuws via Ananova (UK) 31-Oct-02

Gorilla Suits
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A hunter in Uganda is being sought by local authorities for illegally hunting gorillas. He shoots them with a tranquilizer gun and dresses them in clown suits. So far six gorillas have been found wandering around in this condition.
A Ugandan spokesman stated that this was a person with a truly sick sense of humor. They felt this was a cruel practice, since they had to tranquilize the gorillas again to take the suits off!

A Hampshire man ended up in a New Zealand hospital three times in two days on what was supposed to be a holiday of a lifetime.

Roy Dennis was visiting his son Edward in Auckland when he hit the unlucky streak.

Firstly he needed emergency surgery after snapping an ankle while skydiving and was released from hospital in a wheelchair.

The following day he was bitten by a puffer fish at an aquarium and needed a tetanus injection

Twenty-four hours later Edward took his father to an adventure park where staff put the wheelchair-bound 60-year-old in a special car for a tour.

The Sun says the chair wasn't secured properly and he careered out of the car and into a window, breaking his nose.

Roy is now back home and faces two months in plaster. "We wanted to make it a memorable trip and it was -for all the wrong reasons."

Edward said: "I've been left feeling like a bit of a jinx."

By all accounts Kowboy Kyle, Big Dave and Ride'm Nelson are having a grand old time, even entered a "Real Cowboy" contest. I'll just bet it didn't take them long to get noticed at that one. Probably stuck out like sore thumbs at a knitting contest.

The boys sent some nice pictures and there was an note attached to one. Somehow I lost it though. Something about bail I think, anyway couldn't have been too important. Ya'll come back soon.

Too much time on his hands Department:
South Yorkshire man photographs county's 900 pubs
A man has taken a picture of all 900 pubs in South Yorkshire. But David Parry, an amateur historian, didn't have a single drink in any of them because he's a diabetic.
It has taken him five years to photograph every one of the county's pubs, and they are all now in an A-Z filing system at David's Wombwell home.
The Sun says he plans to keep touring and update records as pubs open and close. "I used to love a pint before I was diagnosed - it's not been that easy at times going from pub to pub. But when you can't drink, the next best thing is photographing pubs," said David.
He added: "Some people might think I'm an anorak. But pubs are important and someone has to chronicle their history."
Story filed: 08:04 Friday 1st November 2002

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