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WEIRD: Cheap executions
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— Tennessee State Rep. Frank Buck, commenting in January on a report on the death penalty that fixed the cost of lethal-injection execution at $46,000 and of a firing squad at $7,000, said. "With figures like these, should we wonder why people don't trust government? I believe I can figure out a way to shoot somebody for less than $7,000."
— Attorney Daryl Blue announced in December that he would appeal the conviction of his client Freddie Armstrong for stabbing an 81-year-old preacher to death and cutting off his head at a Bastrop, La., funeral home. The stunned onlookers included police officers. Blue claims that Armstrong was obviously insane at the time. "A rational man does not decapitate a man's head in the presence of a police officer," he said.
— The Swedish hockey team's coach Curt Lundmark explained why he did not protest more vigorously a disallowed goal by his team in its Olympic loss to Canada in February: "Sweden's influence in international hockey is like a duck fart in Africa."
CREME DE LA WEIRD
- The London newspaper *The Independent* reported in January on the Monday Club, a group of older men who meet Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays at the Porscheter Baths in London to be "schmeiselled"
— whipped while naked in a steam room by men wielding a ritual yellow wig, then immersed in ice-cold water. "Your body is like a car," said one, "and a schmeissel is like being serviced." The ritual has been practiced for more than 60 years, and advocates claim it produces deep relaxation and a longer life span.
LEAST COMPETENT POLICE
—The victim of a car theft while visiting Omaha, Neb., in February, Judge Joseph Straub walked into the lobby of a local police station around 10 a.m. to file a report rather than wait for officers to come to the scene. According to the judge, he pushed the
buzzer on the locked front door several times and saw officers moving around inside, but no one answered. Using a pay phone in the lobby, he called the station and asked an officer to open the door and take his report. Ten minutes passed before an officer opened the door. He went back inside, and 10 more minutes passed before another officer appeared. Then he left, and nothing happened for another 10 minutes. Exasperated, the judge, still in the lobby, called 911. A few minutes later, a sergeant came out, then went back in, and finally, a few minutes after that, an officer drove up to the front of the building, got out of her squad car, and took Straub's report.
LEAST DIGNIFIED DEATH
— In October, a police officer in Rock Island, Ill., showing his partner how a fellow officer had accidentally shot and killed himself during a training exercise three days earlier, accidentally shot himself to death.
ELVIS: Tour Graceland via CD
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the big chair in the ceiling-carpeted Jungle Room where Presley's daughter, Lisa Marie, often napped as a child.
Presley's bedroom will continue to be off-limits, as will the upstairs toilet where he was found unconscious in August 1977. Presley was pronounced dead a short time later at a Memphis hospital.
A medical examiner listed the cause of death as heart disease, but physicians and former Presley associates have said that his health was undermined by drug abuse.
Since 1988, 5.5 million CD-ROM drives have been shipped to buyers in the United States, with 3.4 million of those sold last year, according to Dataquest Inc, of San Jose, Calif.
While Elvis wasn't known as a technical whiz himself (he didn't even own an electric guitar when he started his career) and his fans aren't generally thought of as computer buffs, Graceland managers say it's time to put the King on the information superhighway.
The Graceland disc, which Antil expects to sell for about $80, will have versions for Macintosh or IBM-compatible computers. CD-ROM computer attachments (or drives) start at $250 and go up.
"Needless to say, we're in business. That's the simple reason we're doing it," said Jack Soden, president of Elvis Presley Enterprises Inc. "We have watched with great interest all the new technologies."
Soden said that he had not decided on a selling price for the CDs and that he still was talking with potential distributors. The discs will be sold at Graceland's souvenir shops, of course, but also may be available at discount stores and other outlets.
So who is going to buy them? Who knows, Soden said. The phenomenon of Presley's continuing popularity can show itself in unusual ways.
"The CD-ROM will turn some computer fans into Elvis fans and some Elvis fans into computer hackers,"
Interactive Elvis
Here are just a few features to be found on Crunch Media's Graceland CD, which will be available this spring for about $80.
Interviews with the king himself as well as interviews with his cook and close friends.
■ Clips from Elvis' 1968 "comeback special."
Tours of Graeciael featuring angles unavailable to the general public. All rooms are shown with the exception of Evis' bedroom and the bathroom where he was found unconscious the day of his death.
- Close-ups of some of the king's most prized possessions, including his china cabinet, gold records and a chair where daughter Lisa Marie napped as a child.
Select Elvis videos and film clips.
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