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To: jbIII who wrote (7536)	10/29/1998 2:15:00 PM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Respond to of 62551

Fisticuffs over parking leads to broken hip Thursday October 29 11:30 AM EDT dailynews.yahoo.com SANTA CLARA, Calif. (Reuters) - There were three elderly ladies -- but only one handicapped parking space. When the fracas was over, 88-year-old Edna Gilliam was in the hospital with a broken hip. Gloria Owens, 67, was awaiting news of possible criminal charges. And Owens' 98-year-old mother was a potential witness in the bizarre battle over parking at the California hospital. ''It is somewhat bizarre for ladies at this age to be involved in physical confrontation,'' Sgt. Anton Morec of the Santa Clara police department said Tuesday. ''Obviously there were some emotional hot buttons pushed.'' Police said the dispute erupted Monday after Gilliam pulled into a parking space for the handicapped at the Kaiser Hospital that Owens, who was bringing her mother for a medical appointment, had been waiting for. When Owens went to Gilliam's car and knocked on the window, she was ignored -- because Gilliam is hard of hearing. As Gilliam left her car and began walking to the hospital, Owens approached from behind, tugged at her purse, grabbed her sweater and eventually spun her around. In the altercation that ensued, Gilliam was knocked to the pavement, fracturing her right hip. Morec said the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office was reviewing the case for possible criminal charges, while Gilliam remained under observation after undergoing surgery on her hip. ''You will see incidences of road rage on the news, but rarely does it involve women, and particularly women at this age,'' Morec said. ''But we've all experienced waiting for a parking space and have somebody else slip in. Obviously there was some passion and emotion in this particular case.'' _____________________________- Thursday October 29 11:29 AM EDT Leopard watches TV then dozes off in home dailynews.yahoo.com NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A leopard sneaked into a house in northern India, climbed on to a bed and watched television before dozing off, the Asian Age daily reported Thursday. The owner of the house, in a suburb of Chandigarh, thought that her four-year-old son was referring to a TV wildlife documentary when he came into the kitchen and said there was a ''tiger'' in the room. But her amusement turned to horror when she peeked into the bedroom and saw the big cat sprawled out on her bed. She grabbed her son and fled. ''The leopard, after watching TV for over an hour, apparently got bored so he rolled over and went off to sleep on the bed,'' Asian Age said. Forest department officials tranquilized the leopard a few hours later with a dart pistol and carried it to a zoo. The newspaper said it was not immediately clear whether the animal had escaped from the local zoo or whether it had roamed into the suburb from the Morni Hill forests east of Chandigarh.

To: jbIII who wrote (7536)	10/29/1998 2:17:00 PM
From: Jim Craig	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 62551

On the sixth day God turned to the angel Gabriel and said "Today I am going to create a land called Canada, it will be a land of outstanding natural beauty, it shall have tall majestic mountains full of mountain goats and eagles, beautifully sparkly lakes bountiful with carp and trout, forests full of elk and moose, high cliffs over looking sandy beaches with an abundance of sea life, rivers stocked with salmon." God continued "I shall make the land rich in oil so to make the inhabitants prosper, I shall call these inhabitants Canadians, they shall be known as the most friendly people on the earth" But Lord" asked Gabriel "don't you think you are being too generous to these Canadians?" Not really" replied God "just wait and see the neighbours I am going to give them.