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Quirks in the news

HAVE BAT WILL STRIKE - Juanito V. Jabat   - The Freeman

More and more quirks in the news, or call it offbeat, are finding their way into our newspapers lately. Which should be welcomed as they spice the gory hard news we've been getting a heavy dose of in recent months.

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One quirk in the news I came across recently was about an African man who has brought by the police to the mental hospital after he was found trying to make love to a jungle fly. (It must have been a big fly.)

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There was a Briton, dressed in bathrobe, who ran three miles to catch the man who, he told police, stole his wife.

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Another quirk in the news was about a criminal who escaped from getting jailed by giving his pair of Nike rubber shoes to the judge.

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All these quirky or offbeat news came out in the papers, including this one you're reading, on the week when terrorists attacked a magazine in France killing 12 staffers including three of Europe's best cartoon satirists.

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Pope Francis has told mothers to feel free to breastfeed their babies. Most doctors, especially pediatricians, have been pushing for breastfeeding but many are saying no in order "to maintain their body shape."

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Truth to tell, there are many poor legit mothers in some depressed barangays who earn good money by breastfeeding babies of some moneyed mothers who don't want to feed their babies with their  own milk. A college researcher doing a study on breastfeeding said in her doctorate treatise that there are some poor mothers who breastfeed babies of rich others many of whom are still students and some work in business firms.

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OVERHEARD. It's raining hard as I write this (Monday, Jan. 12/15). I heard some people outside say: "Daghan-daghanon nato ang hatag og itlog sa Pink Sisters basin mohinay ang uwan." Someone  said it has been proven that rains either stop or don't happen upon the intervention of the Pink Sisters.

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