Cygnals Zine - Issue #8, Summer
1996
Some of the odd news reported in Cygnals
Male-man nipped
VICTORIA (CP) -- He was male, but he wasn't the mailman.
An elderly woman put her stamp of disapproval on a man
who stuck his penis through her front door mail slot,
police said.
She slammed the slot cover shut, trapping the man, who
yelped in pain.
"She gave it a pretty good push," said Satff
Sgt. Frank Whitton. "She finally let go because she
had to go phone the police."
Later, a dog tracked the man to where police believe a
car had been parked. Police did not get a description,
but this postman will likely only ring once, Whitton
said.
Daniel and Helene Pollan want to know what happened
to their 25 years worth of home movies. They took their
8mm films to Kmart to be transferred to videotape and got
a rude surprise when the tape came back. Instead of
family vacations, the Pollans say their tape had scenes
of strangers having sex. The Jacksonville, Florida,
couple planned to share the video with family members on
their 50th wedding anniversary. Eighty-year-old Daniel
Pollan says he got sick to his stomach when he saw the
black-and-wh ite porn. The Pollans say to make matters
worse, they didn't get back their original home movie
reeles from the lab, but three reels of grainy sex films.
The couple is suing Kmart and Fuji for five million
dollars, claiming emotional distress. So far, no one has
come forward to claim the porn films.
Sitter sues after toddler hits her
DALLAS (AP) A babysitter is suing a four-year-old and his
parents, saying the boy crushed her larynx and left her
unable to talk.
Erica Bailey, 21, says Connor Shaars hit her in the
throat while she was talking to the boy's older brother.
Her claim for $177,000 in damagse is expected to go to
trial later this month.
One of Bailey's lawyers, Steve Muncey, told the Fort
Worth Star-Telegram that his client lost her voice for
four months, enrolled in sign language classes and had to
drop out of college.
She has regained "some kind of voice, but it's not
the same," he said.
Connor's boy's parents, Theo and Mackie Shaars, are
flabbergasted.
"I thought it was too bizarre to be true," said
Theo Schaars, a Dallas stock broker.
Muncey said the boy hit Bailey in anger when she did not
join him in a game of checkers he demanded.
"It's not like the kid just bumped into the
girl," Muncey said. "This one ran across the
room and bopped her."
Surgery usually isn't a do-it-yourself project -- except
for an Illinois county coroner, Deanna Stumpf. She was
sharpening some knives when one slipped and cut off her
thumb. Stumpf says she doesn't like going to hospitals.
So, after she almost fainted, Stumpf says she stopped the
bleeding, cleaned the wound and sewed her thumb back on.
It'll be a week or so before she knows if her D-I-Y
surgery was successful. But Stumpf has some advice for
others in a similar situation -- don't try this at home.
Jury convicts `Fantasy Man' in rape cases
Nashville, Tenn. (AP) The "Fantasy Man" faces
as long as 30 years in prison after a jury convicted him
of tricking women into having sex blindfolded by telling
each one he was her boyfriend.
Businessman Raymond Mitchell, 45, was convicted Thursday
of rape by fraud and attempted rape by fraud. He will be
sentenced in March. The defence said the women agreed to
have sex.
Prosecutors said Mitchell called hundreds of women oer
the years, most of whom hung up on him. Of the 30 women
who reported encounters with him to police, eight said
they had sex with the caller.
One woman said she had sex with "Fantasy Man"
twice a week for two months in 1992 because she thought
he was her boyfriend. She said she discovered he wasn't
when her blindfold slipped off.
Mitchell was convicted in the early morning sexual
encounters with two women and of attempting sex with a
third woman who realized she was being duped in time to
lock the man out of her room.
Each instance began with a phone call to the sleeping
women and a whispered voice. He said he was their
boyfriend and sked them to fulfil his fantasy of having
sex with a blindfolded woman.
Defence lawyer Edward Fowlkes said in his closing
argument that the women agreed to act out the sexual
fantasies Mitchell suggested.
"How do you spell consent?" Fowlkes asked the
jury. "Talk dirty 20 or 30 minutes on the phone,
that's how."
Fowlkes argued the women knew they were engaging in sex
play with a stranger, but called police later for some
reason.
Fowlkes said he will appeal the decision, "but
that's still down the road."
Authorities in one Connecticut community see nothing
funny in Silly String. Town officials in Southington say
they'll decide today whether to ban the multicolored
party favors and smoke bombs, too. The trouble with Silly
String started at a festival in October when pranksters
squirted it on motorcycle officers, band members and
cheerleaders. Officials say Silly String is messy and
dangerous, because the officers almost crashed their
motorcycles. Smoke Bombs were also set off. Violators of
the Silly Stri ng ban could be fined 99 dollars. But the
Connecticut Civil Liberties Union sees the proposed Silly
String law as just plain sily. The CCLU says laws already
on the books protect officers from a Silly String attack.
Prisoner denied inflatable sex doll
JERUSALEM (Reuter) Israel's supreme court has burst an
Israeli prisoner's dream of having an inflatable sex doll
in his cell
In a ruling appearing in the Israeli media Monday, the
court accepted the argument of prison authorities that
Inmate Amir Hazan, 35, could use the doll to fool guards
in an escape attempt or hide drugs in it.
The prison service also contended other inmates would
fight over the doll.
"I've been in jails since the age of 14. If they let
me be with a woman, I would give up on getting a
doll," said Hazan, imprisoned this time for 10 years
for what newspapers described as acts of violence.
Chili routs would-be rapist
COLOMBO (Reuter) A 62-year-old Sri Lankan described as a
would-be rapist fled in agony after his intended victim
threw a bottle of chili sauce over his naked body.
The 55-year-old woman caught the man full in the face and
body "when he followed her contemplating his next
move, still undressed, inflamed by his lust," the
state-run Daily News said.
The man "remained several hours under water in great
pain" before he was arrested.
Joined in john
TAICHUNG, Taiwan (Reuter) Eight Taiwan couples got
married Sunday inside a luxurious $1 million public
lavatory that one of the couples designed and built.
Bride Chiu Chiu-kuei designed the toilets, set in a
public park in the central city of Taichung, and her
groom, Lee Wong-tsong, built them.
"Since the bathroom is the creation of me and my
husband it is very meaningful to us and therefore we
decided to have our ceremony in here," Chiu said.
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