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*October, 1969: Farmer Heino Seppi was transporting lumber from the woods of Yrjo Knato, near Sikasalo, in the Pallonova region of western Finland. The trees had been felled the previous winter and were cut into lengths, each a few metres long. When Heino split an aspen log he found its middle rotten, forming a hollow in which he discovered a dried fish over 40cm The woman who was suffering mild exposure, insisted the date was April 15th, 1912, and that her name was Winnie Coutts. It is reported that she was carrying a boarding pass for the Titanic also. A psychiatrist named Dr. Jarle Haaland says "All she remembers about the sinking is someone pounding on her cabin door and telling her to get out. The next thing she knew she was being lifted off the iceberg by the crew of the Fosshagen. She keeps asking to see her family back in Southhampton, but they're all dead." Apparently marine authorities upon checking the original Titanic records, found that a Mrs W. Coutts had indeed been Hollywood restaurant. When he went to collect his winnings he found that 9097 others also had won first prize, and his share of the Jackpot was only $100-. x) More Bad Luck * Ianni and Anna Deluca had to scrimp for 30 years to pay the mortgage on their house in suburban Milan. After the last long. It resembled an unusually large perch, and there was no clue as to how it got there. All who saw the evidence were baffled. payment they held a party and threw the mortgage papers into the fire, which then got out of control and burned the house down. There was no insurance: that had vii) Lobsters in the Pants Boston shoplifter, Winston Treadway, learned the hard way, not to go shoving lobsters down your pants, especially live ones. The eager shoplifter had already amassed a quantity of stolen food in a trawl around an out-of-the-way supermarket when he spotted a tank full of live seafood. Plucking two lobsters from the water, he stashed them in his underwear, and sprint- ed for the exit - only to pull up short in a nearby alley as the enraged crustacea clamped their claws around his genitals. "When we saw him he was trying to prise the claws off. He was purple as an aubergine when we got to him," said police. Having accosted the thief, the cops called for pliers to remove the lobsters. Doctors who confirmed that that Treadwa Laat wea 2 2 - been sacrificed to meet all those payments. ¢ Convicted murderer Michael Godwin, 28, avoided the electric chair in Columbia, South Carolina, when his sentence was reduced to life on appeal. He electrocuted himself when he bit through a wire mend- ing the headphones on his tv, while sitting naked on the metal commode in his cell. "CURSE" CLAIMS ANOTHER EARL Legend has it that the aristocratic English family, the Cravens, are cursed! A Tecent car crash which killed the xi) Returning Eyesight Joan Hornby, of Walney Island, Cumbria, had been blind since she was six months old. At the age of 18 she acciden- tally stepped into a hot bath before running any cold water into it. She gave a yell and found that she could see. eighth Earl of Craven on the Eastbourne seafront in early September has police baf- fled. Simon Craven, 28, died when his car crashed into a row of parked cars. Legend has it the Cravens were cursed approx 300 years ago, by a woman who claimed the lord of the manor got her daughter pregnant. She condemned all of the baron's succ: to a violent and d pre- xii) Swallowed Watches Brian Potter's uncle Dennis owned a had inadvertently performed a do-it-your- self vasectomy later told him he might never father children. mature death when he refused to marry. Strangely enough, since then, all the male descendants of the line have died small farm One day a cow nuzzled against his stomach, took his fob-chain in his mouth and swallowed it, watch and all. Later that year (which year is unspecified) the farmer died. Several summers later young. Simon's 14 month old son, Benjamin, is expected to be the ninth Earl of Craven. viii) A Bird in the Pants ... Altogether more ambitions was Thomas Waddell, a Baltimore man five dead ones stuffed down his pants. Waddell aroused the suspicions of police officer Ronald Pettie while in process of stealing the pigeons, valued at $300, from neighbour John Styron. "He looked like the Michelin man. There were feathers all over the Brian found the watch, next a fresh cow pat. It was still going, though it was four hours slow. Teeny cee we nee we still going, though it was four hours slow. A TITANIC SURVIVOR? This one is published in the hopes that someone can furnish more on this story. The European News Service claims a 29 year old woman has been rescued from an iceberg in the north Atlantic - dressed in early 20th century clothing, and claiming she's from the Titanic. A Norwegian fishing trawler spotted the woman on a floating iceberg, about 300km canth wect af Iceland This one is published in the hopes that someone can furnish more on this story. The European News Service claims a 29 ix) Twists of Fortune Bill Helko, 38, was over the moon when he got the winning number in a California lottery - the first prize was $1,000,000-. He ordered a Porsche, booked a family holiday in Hawaii and had a champagne dinner A Norwegian fishing trawler spotted the woman on a floating iceberg, about 300km south west of Iceland. NEXUS - 49 with his wife and friends at a swish aboard the ship when it went down. A TITANIC SURVIVOR? place,” Pettie explained. JANUARY/FEBRUARY 1992 - YEAR BOOK