Alabama state officials announced in February that they had identified more than $438,000 in abuses of the financial aid program at Bishop State Community College in Mobile, including $87,000 in athletic scholarships awarded to 42 relatives of employees (and others) who played no sports. Included was one employee's 67-year-old disabled grandmother, who received scholarships in three sports (but was unable to use them, in that she passed away shortly after the paperwork came through).
[Birmingham News, 2-19-07]
According to a Beijing Youth Daily report distributed by Reuters news service in February, an unidentified Chinese businessman posted an online job offer for a "substitute" mistress. That is, in order to save his marriage, he had agreed to allow his wife to beat up his mistress and thus needed a stand-in to absorb the whipping, to spare the real mistress. He offered the equivalent of about $400 per 10 minutes of pain.
[Reuters, 2-26-07]
-The question is: For how long will the wife beat up the mistress? I mean after 2 hours the 'mistress' can gather almost $5000. So what will win out, love for the 'real' mistress or greed? A point to ponder.
Serbian anesthesiologist Spasoje Radulovic and surgeon Dragan Vukanic had an "all-out" fight in a Belgrade hospital's operating room in February, and then outside, punching and slapping each other while an assistant surgeon was forced to finish the operation. The nature of the dispute was not disclosed, according to a Reuters report.
[Australian Broadcasting Corp.-Reuters, 2-22-07]
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(1) A 60-year-old woman turned on a 19-year-old man who had tried to hijack her car in Frisco, Tex., in February, and shot him with his own gun.
[KXAS-TV (Fort Worth), 2-27-07]
(2) Four American senior citizens on a cruise, on a stopover in Limon, Costa Rica, fought off a band of young muggers in February, and
in fact one senior (age 70) killed one of the thugs (age 20) with his bare hands, according to an Associated Press report.
[CNN-AP, 2-22-07]
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