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To: The Rabbit who wrote (8849)	3/3/1999 6:34:00 PM
From: Arthur Radley	Respond to of 62549

To you Rabbit, a rabbit story. A man was driving down the highway, and a rabbit tried to hop across the road. He swerved to avoid the critter, but unfortunely he hit the rabbit. Being a sensitive man as well as an animal lover, he pulled over and discovered the rabbit was dead there in the road. He felt awful over the event and he began to cry. A woman driving by saw the man crying, so she stopped and asked what his problem was. He explained what had happened and showed her the rabbit, just lying there in the road. The woman told him not to worry, she knew what to do. She went to her car and pulled out a spray can. She walked over to the limp, dead rabbit, and sprayed the contents onto the lifeless body. Miraculously the rabbit came to life, jumped up, waved its paw at the two and started hopping down the highway. About fifty yards away, the rabbit stopped, turned around , waved again, hopped another fifty yards, stopped and waved back at the two. The man was astonished. He couldn't figure out what she had sprayed on the rabbit. He asked, "What was in your can? The woman turned the can around so that he could read the label. It said: "Hair Spray. Restores life to dead hair. Adds Permanent Wave."

To: The Rabbit who wrote (8849)	3/4/1999 9:53:00 AM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 62549

Sect Leader Arrested After Penis Choppings Thursday March 4 9:14 AM ET dailynews.yahoo.com RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Police in northeastern Brazil have arrested the leader of a religious sect after the penises of three of his followers were chopped off, apparently in an initiation ceremony, authorities said Wednesday. Donato Brandao, the 28-year-old spiritual head of the sect Mundial, was detained over the weekend in the Maranhao state capital of Sao Luis on charges of ordering a violent assault against his teen-age adopted son and two men in their 20s. The severings were rapidly performed with a kitchen cleaver by three men who simulated an attack during an initiation ceremony last Friday on a beach in Sao Luis, state prosecutors were quoted in local media reports as saying. A nurse associated with Mundial, which stands for Modern Normal Unit of Development for Latin America, cauterized the wounds, but the missing organs had been tossed into bushes and could not be reattached. The two older victims told police they had known about the ceremony and had willingly submitted, believing it would purify them. But investigators think Brandao ordered the attack on his 17-year-old son, who had left home in December, without the boy's knowledge. Other sect members said Brandao had promised a permanent removal of any temptation to have heterosexual relations. ''He said that all the angels were chaste and they had to follow the same road,'' Joaquim Nabuco Cunha, the No. 2 official of Mundial, told local news agency Folha. Brandao denied any wrongdoing in two newspaper interviews and said that although he was shocked by the accusations, he welcomed the publicity for the sect, which has 12 members. ''Our intention was to open up to the world, and I believe this is only helping (the sect) to grow more,'' he said told one paper. Police said they found a penis enlarger and ecstasy pills when they raided the house that served as the sect's headquarters. As part of the initiation process, Mundial members have to pledge their fidelity to Brandao, known as ''Father,'' and sign written confessions of all their life experiences, including sexual