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Bobby Johnson, an Indianapolis loading-dock worker, was arrested in May for criminal recklessness after he fired six bullets into his $900 Zenith television set because his 41-channel cable-TV service provided him “nothing to watch.” Johnson told the Indianapolis Star, “I don’t see why a man can’t shoot his own TV if he wants to.”
An Aeroflot jet carrying 55 passengers landed safely in Arkhangel’sk, Russia, in May despite a loss of hydraulic fluid that prevented full use of its landing gear. The crew managed to make part of the landing gear operational by pouring all of the lemonade on board into the hydraulic system. And that same month, near Lake Tahoe, California, pilots Steve and Kathy Swigard, facing a similar problem with their Cessna, urinated into the hydraulic system, which created enough pressure to bring the landing gear down.
In an interview published in the February Mother Jones Wallace Stickney, director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency under President Bush, revealed that FEMA’s nuclear-disaster plans called for the evacuation of Congress and top government officials but not him. He said he would have been among those expected to be, using FEMA’s term, “cindered.”
The AMA’s Medical Post magazine reported in March that Dr. Tariq Ahmed Mian, a British citizen educated in Pakistan, has been turned down for more than 1,000 hospital jobs in Great Britain.
