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To: spiral3 who wrote (49917)	10/7/2002 7:32:21 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 281500

Daily Brickbat Absurd news bites, served fresh every day. By Charles Oliver Feelin' Lucky, Punk? (10/7) Greg Siem was having trouble subduing a man whom he and another police officer wanted to arrest for being drunk and disorderly. So the Rochester, Minnesota, policeman pulled out what he thought was his stun gun. In fact, he pulled out his sidearm and fired a bullet into the man's back. The police department said it was an honest mistake and returned Siem to duty. His victim will recover. Farming in Brigadoon (10/4) The British government paid one of its farmers, Joseph Bowden, £157,000 ($244,433) in farm subsidies during a two-year period. Too bad they didn't notice the land Bowden claimed to own was in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and in Iceland and Greenland. Bowden also collected subsidies for multiple crops all indicated as growing simultaneously on the same piece of land. Despite the obvious inconsistencies, the government did not spot the fraud until receiving an anonymous tip.