Miss Canada 1996, Danielle House, got into a bar fight and was
charged with assault after allegedly causing bodily harm to
another woman. Says Jerry Perisho: "The other day I went to a
Canadian beauty pageant and a hockey game broke out." 

From Time magazine, "Numbers" section:


$5 million: 

    Estimated annual cost for a 10-year program that
    would identify large asteroids most threatening to earth. 

$75 million: 

    Budget for "Deep Impact", a film about the devastation
    caused when a comet hits earth. 

The other day I was on my way home from work when the most remarkable
thing happened. Traffic was heavy as usual, and as I sat there at a
red light, out of nowhere a bird slammed into my windshield. If that
wasn't bad enough, the poor creature got its wing stuck under the
windshield wiper.
Just then the light turned green and there I was with a bird stuck on
my windshield. Without any other apparent options, turning on the
windshield wipers seemed the only thing to do. It actually worked.
On the upswing, the bird flew off, and here is the crazy thing... it
slammed right onto the windshield of the car behind me. No, it didn't
get caught under the windshield wipers of that vehicle, but the car
behind me was a police car.
Of course, knowing my luck, immediately the lights went on and I was
forced to pull over. The officer walked up and told me he saw what
had happened at the light. Trying to plead my case fell on deaf ears.
He simply stated: I am going to have to write you up for flipping me
the bird.

Sent by Matt