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Earlier this year, during filming in a remote area of Italy for the upcoming Mel Gibson film The Passion of Christ, the actor who plays Jesus was struck during a lightning storm, according to an October report in a supplement to the trade paper Variety. Also hit, by a fork of the same bolt, was assistant director Jan Michelini–whose umbrella had been struck by lightning a few weeks earlier at a shoot near the town of Matera. No one was seriously hurt by either strike, though a witness claimed to see smoke “coming out of [the actor’s] ears.” The film has already drawn heated criticism from Jewish leaders worried that it will encourage audiences to blame Jews for Christ’s death.
According to testimony at a July disciplinary hearing in Chiswick, England, dentist Neville Kan drilled away almost half of a patient’s healthy tooth, then demanded she pay him about $100 (which he claimed she owed him from a visit five years previous) before he would fill the hole. And in July in Euless, Texas, a 26-year-old man who’d been arrested in an Internet child-sex sting (the “15-year-old girl” was, of course, a cop) asked police if he’d be out on bond in time to get to a meeting he’d scheduled with his fiancee about their upcoming wedding.
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