Quoted from Randy Cassingham's This is True® syndicated newspaper column (also available by email) for 27 August 1995. Full story and details about This is True below. (If you are not already a TRUE subscriber, I highly recommend it!)
Excerpted with permission from the author from: THIS is TRUE for 27 August 1995 Copyright 1995 by Randy Cassingham ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THIS JUST IN: The front page of the Aspen (Colo.) Daily News told the whole story. A local woman, it reported, "rampaged through local singles bars Wednesday night, leaving a string of wasted males in her wake." Indeed, "no less than 37 men aged 13 to 78 were taken to local hospitals. Their injuries included everything from severe bleeding due from hickies on their necks to sexual exhaustion." But the reporter who wrote the story created it as a joke for his girlfriend, and never intended for the file to get into the paper's typesetting system -- let alone the front page. Locals were far from outraged: some bought extra copies, and "people are asking us to run this once a week," the news editor said. (AP) ...Are they going to punish the reporter, or promote him? THIS IS TRUE is a weekly column featuring bizarre-but-TRUE news. To get it weekly by e-mail for FREE, e-mail join-this-is-true@lyris.net or see our web site: <http://www.thisistrue.com> Copyright 1995 by Randy Cassingham, All Rights Reserved. Broadcast, publication, retransmission, copying or storage, including on CD-ROM, listservers, BBSs, WWW, "FTP" archives, or anywhere else, is STRICTLY PROHIBITED without PRIOR written permission.