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Taken into custody in Chillicothe, Ohio, in January for her possible involvement in a shooting, 41-year-old Victoria Lundy was charged with improperly discharging a weapon and two other gun offenses after she sat down on a bench in a holding cell, accidentally firing the .25-caliber pistol she’d allegedly smuggled into jail in her vagina. No one was injured.
According to a February story in USA Today, among the many businesses nationwide that have imposed restrictions on customers’ cell phone use is Green Oaks Family Dentistry in Arlington, Texas. Office manager Lisa Teague said that patients’ carrying on phone conversations while dentists worked in their mouths “was very disruptive.”
Men in Trees
In February the Washington Post published the results of a poll in which 1,033 randomly selected Americans were asked to rate their personal qualities; 79 percent said they were “above average” in attractiveness, 86 percent said they were above average in intelligence, 89 percent said they were above average in common sense, and 94 percent said they were above average in trustworthiness.
No Longer Weird
