Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site sesame.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!harvard!talcott!sesame!slerner From: slerner@sesame.UUCP (Simcha-Yitzchak Lerner) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: true news stories Message-ID: <334@sesame.UUCP> Date: Thu, 19-Sep-85 17:56:08 EDT Article-I.D.: sesame.334 Posted: Thu Sep 19 17:56:08 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 22-Sep-85 14:06:28 EDT Distribution: net Organization: Lotus Development Corp Lines: 57 *** Post no bills *** A man arrested for urinating on public property in Mexico City turned out to be a plainclothes detective. While uniformed officers were transporting him to the police station, their squad car was intercepted by a number of detectives who demanded the release of their fellow plainclothesman. The uniformed officers called for and quickly got backup, and a 20-minute skirmish ensued in which a man on each side was wounded. In the end, however, the uniformed cops won, and the detectives were all taken into custody. -Mexico City News. In Hudson, Quebec, an unemployed man whose wife had just left him fired hundreds of rounds from a .22 caliber rifle, a shotgun and a high-powered bow inside his home, which was quickly surrounded by heavily armed police. He emeged from the house unarmed, played with his dog, and nonchalantly began cleaning up his yard, at which point he was placed under arrest. - Canadian Wire Services. Eighteen-year-old Alicia Vallarta, the hearing-impaired daughter of a Mexican diplomat in Washington, D.C., held her interpreter hostage at knife point for three hours in a suburban high school. The girl's mother, also named Alicia, spoke to the Washington Post about the incident. "She must be quite unhappy and dying to be heard," said Mrs. Vallarta. "But I hope she doesn't like all the publicity. ... I will tell her, 'Yes, you kept your father out of work all day, and yes, you kept your mother from making her dessert, but this is not the way to get attention.'" The Swedish Navy ship Albsborg, described as a ninety-two-meter mine layer, sustained a direct hit on the bridge from one of its own antiaircraft guns during a training exercise. According to press reports, "It was not immediately clear why the gun had been aimed at the bridge." -Wellington (New Zealand) Evening Post -- Opinions expressed are public domain, and do not belong to Lotus Development Corp. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Simcha-Yitzchak Lerner {genrad|ihnp4|ima}!wjh12!talcott!sesame!slerner {cbosgd|harvard}!talcott!sesame!slerner talcott!sesame!slerner@harvard.ARPA Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com