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Subj:	HOLIDAYS OF JAN 28 - FEB 3
All of today's stories below represent some of the stranger stories to come out
of Nashville in 1995.
HERE ARE THE HOLIDAYS OF JANUARY 28 - FEBRUARY 3:
SUN JAN 28:Super Bowl Sunday
MON JAN 29:Australia Day
	   Carnation Day
	   Thomas Paine Day
TUE JAN 30:Cavadee (Mauritius)
	   Franklin D. Roosevelt Day
	   Birthday of Tzar Boris III (Bulgaria)
	   Day of the Archbishops (Greece)
WED JAN 31:Nauru Independence Day
THR FEB 1:National Freedom Day
	  Vinegrowers Day
	  St. Bridget (UK)
	  Federal Territory Day (Malaysia)
FRI FEB 2:Groundhog Day
	  Candlemas
	  Aztec New Year
	  Forty Shilling Day (UK)
	  Blessing the Candle of the Happy Woman (Hungary)
	  Scottish Quarter Day
SAT FEB 3:Four Chaplains Memorial Day
	  Bean-Throwing Festival (Japan)
	  Blessing the Throats (UK)
	  Bulgaria Independence Day
	  Heroes Day (Mozambique)
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THIS WEEK'S TRIVIA QUESTION:
	How much per hour did Paramount Pictures pay the U.S. Defense
Department for each of the $37 million F-14 jets used in the 1986 Tom Cruise
film "Top Gun"?
LAST WEEK'S TRIVIA:
	How many miles of arteries, capillaries and veins are there in an adult
human body?
	ANSWER: 62,000
	WINNER: Eric Choate - 60,000
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As I mentioned at the top, all of this week's stories are a collection of
strange things that happened in and near Nashville in 1995.
When Security staff at the Federal Building downtown X-rayed a suspicious-
looking package, the Metro bomb squad evacuated the building and closed off
traffic on Broadway.  After using a small explosive charge to open the package,
the officers found that it contained a bottle of cocoa butter lotion, a pump
bottle of hair spray, and tubes of salve.
Mayor Phil Bredesen was forced to man a metal detector in the main lobby of the
Metro Courthouse after security guards from the Wackenhut Corporation walked
off the job.
James David Haley of Triune sued his parents for $250,000, claiming that he had
suffered exterme burns due to their neglegence.  Haley thought he was pouring a
can of motor oil over a brushpile, but when he lit the pile he discovered the
can actually contained gasoline.
Citing the states failure to improve conditions at the controversial Arlington
Development Center, which is for patients with mental health problems, U.S.
District Judge Jon McCalla sentenced Tennessee mental health commissioner
Marjorie Nelle Cardwell to spend every fourth weekend in the facility.
Janet Sanders' attourney, G. Whitney Kemper, argued that since no one can pick
up a floor and hit someone with it, the aggravated assault charge should be
dropped.  "Could it be said that an agressor was armed with a FLOOR?  Of course
not," Kemper reasoned.  Prosecutor James D. Sledge suggested that the person
"whose face is being pounded into that vinyl-over-concrete floor" might
disagree.
James Edward Summar, 18, was charged in June with breaking into a Drakes Creek
Park concessions stand and stealing peanuts and Cracker Jacks.
To bolster tourism, an Alabama advertising firm placed a billboard near I-65
North outside Birmingham reading "Stay in Birmingham, Nashville is `closed for
repairs.'"
A man claiming to be the son of Edward Gaylord, chairman of Gaylord
Entertainment, strolled through Second Avenue nightspots cadging free drinks
and telling wild stories, saying he wanted to rent Cowboys LaCage for a
birthday date with Tanya Tucker.  The pot-bellied stranger, who called himself
Dwayne Gaylord, was finally tossed out of the Wildhorse Saloon when someone
remembered there was no such Gaylord son.
A $5 plastic pig was finally returned to Metro schoolteacher Kathy Lee after it
disappeared from her front porch 19 months earlier.  Ever since the pig
vanished, Lee periodically received anonymous photos of the pig in various
locations-in the cockpit of a plane, on Elvis Presley's grave, in front of a
barbecue restaraunt, on the hood of a state troopers car and as the subject of
a Glamour Shots beauty makeover.  In addition, three records credited to the
pig arrived in the mail, and Lee even sighted the pig in a Jeff Foxworthy video.
In East Tennessee, scientists from the Radiological health division of the
Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation investigated the trail of
a leaking container of radioactive material - which  was purchased at a yard
sale.
In Columbia, an armed bandit burst into an insurance office and was surprised
to learn from two employees that the building no longer housed the First
Citizens Bank, which had relocated six months earlier.
Johnny Meeks, operator of Johnny's Big Burger in Clarksville, used a spatula to
overpower a would-be robber who entered his restaraunt at 3 a.m., jumped over
the lunch counter and put a semiautomatic pistol to Meeks' head.  Meeks, who
had been cooking, whacked the intruder with his spatula and wrestled the gun
away.
WTVF anchor Chris Clark, sensitively intoducing a story about a woman who tried
to murder her child in an oven:
	"And now, a real-life Hansel-and-Gretel story."
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