You can't make this stuff up, and why would you want to?
A special year-end extravaganza of news that's so bizarre, you know it's real
For 50 years, Wayne Joseph believed he was black. His parents were, their parents were, so why wouldn't he be? But when he sent away for a DNA test to learn his ethnic heritage, Joseph discovered he isn't. At all.
In other news, it's a good thing we're all on high alert. Just imagine how much worse things could be if we weren't paying attention. People might fly their private planes along the East River at 1,000 feet, then circle the Statue of Liberty, accidentally because they got confused. They might steal buses from the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Manhattan and drive them -- drunk -- to JFK Airport in Queens without anyone noticing for hours. They might hack their way into electronic voting systems. If not for all that watchfulness, someone might rob six Manhattan banks within an hour. And if we weren't so vigilant in looking out for our own (and everybody else's) safety, the cows might be even more mad than they already are.
posted by Janet Dagley Dagley @3:47 PM
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