Lead Story
In the Lorestan province of Iran, where celebratory gunfire is traditional at weddings, a wedding guest named Rasool lost control of his automatic weapon, killing 6 people and wounding 14. In Champion, Ohio, in January Reverend Thomas Gillum, who was presiding at the burial of a Korean war veteran, was accidentally shot in the face when the local VFW honor guard fired a four-gun salute.
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Milwaukee juvenile court judge Mike Malmstadt, quoted in a Time magazine story on how hostility by drivers increasingly provokes violent reactions by others: “I don’t give people the finger from my car, and I haven’t for a while.”
Creme de la Weird
In October a police officer in Rock Island, Illinois, who was 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.
