A help-wanted ad is seeking shoplifters. There’s no pay involved, but everyone who’s hired gets free drugs.
It was placed by a California shrink looking for 24 kleptomaniacs for a Stanford University study to learn whether drugs in the Prozac family can reduce theft among people with an uncontrollable desire to steal. Participants must be at least age 20 and have had kleptomania for about a year.
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A crazed rooster attacked a 2-year-old girl as she was toddling down a Florida sidewalk with her Easy Bake Oven.
Cops in Tarpon Springs say Dechardonae Gaines was knocked on her belly and pecked by the neighborhood pet named Rockadoodle Two. Witnesses called the cops, who grabbed the bird.
“He was beating the crap out of her,” said the girl’s mother, Lori Current, 27. “A freaking rooster, you know?”
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If you want to live a long and healthy life – then definitely don’t retire to Florida. That’s the advice of pioneering TV host Art Linkletter, who’s now 90 and still skis, surfs and swims 30 laps a day.
“As you get older, you need a reason for living, a passion. … I keep telling people, don’t just head for Florida. Stay near your friends and grandkids. That’s the key to long life, much more than climate,” he says.
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After 43 years in power, aging Cuban President Fidel Castro has decided what he would like to do next. The 76-year-old leader has decided he wants to be reincarnated in the image of his close friend, Nobel Prize-winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
“In my next reincarnation, I want to be a writer. And I want to be one just like Gabriel Garcia Marquez,” said Castro, in a letter published yesterday in Colombia’s Cambio magazine.
Garcia Marquez, who won the Nobel in 1982, and Castro were born within a year of each other, and have been friends for decades. (lcf)
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An Italian former porn star is offering sex to Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in exchange for world peace. But La Cicciolina admits it wouldn’t be pleasant. “I would do it holding my nose and closing my eyes,” she said.
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Students at Northwestern University have turned into pampered pupils thanks to a new service that does their laundry for them for $165 to $285 per academic quarter.
CollegeButler of Evanston, Ill., charges depending on whether the students want two small loads, two medium loads or two large loads washed per week. And business has taken off. (m, s)