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Some underreported November results: Former Florida shock jock Bubba the Love Sponge Clem (his legal name) lost a bid to become Pinellas County sheriff, while Tampa radio personality Dave “the Dwarf” Flood wasn’t elected to a conservation-panel seat (though each got between 25 and 30 percent of the vote). Juan Olivares, up for reelection as mayor of Arvin, California, was arrested on child molestation charges the day before polling. (He lost.) And unsuccessful Pennsylvania congressional candidate Arthur Farnsworth, who ran on an antitax platform, was arrested three days after the election for tax evasion.
Fine Points of the Law
In November the Federation of American Scientists revealed that the U.S. Air Force had paid $25,000 for a study on psychic teleportation prepared by Nevada physicist Eric Davis, who wrote that the power to move oneself from place to place using only the mind is “quite real and can be controlled.” An Air Force Research Lab spokesman defended sponsoring the study, telling USA Today, “If we don’t turn over stones, we don’t know if we have missed something.”
Frank Hersha, 28, was arrested in Manchester, Connecticut, in October for allegedly stealing his landlord’s car and driving drunk. He was pulled over after police watched him try repeatedly to order from the drive-through window of a McDonald’s that was obviously closed. Also in October 23-year-old Kudzai Kwenda accidentally handcuffed himself at his home in Watertown, Massachusetts, and called police for help, apparently forgetting there was an outstanding warrant against him for failure to appear at a hearing. The responding officers left the cuffs on and took him to the station.
