| May 4, 2008 | - The sister-in-law of Josef Fritzl, the Austrian electrician accused of locking his daughter in a basement dungeon for 24 years and fathering seven children with her, told the Associated Press that Fritzl hadn't had sex with his wife in many years: “I believe it was because my sister had been getting bigger,” she said. “He never liked fat women.”
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AP via Google
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| February 13, 2005 | - At the Best Buy in the Hudson Valley Mall in Kingston, New York, a man ran amok with an AK-47, injuring an Army recruiter.
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ABC News
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| December 24, 2004 | - A mentally ill man went on a stabbing rampage in London, killing one and injuring five.
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Guardian
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| November 19, 2004 | - A new poll showed that nearly one half of the U.S. population believes that human beings did not evolve, but instead were created by God within the last 10,000 years, while only one third believe that the theory of evolution is accurate.
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Gallup
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| October 22, 2003 | - Human Rights Watch reported that about 20 percent of America's prison inmates are crazy.
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New York Times
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| August 14, 2001 | -
India closed 15 shelters in Erwadi, where crazy people were kept near a Muslim shrine, presumably hoping for some kind of miracle; 27 were killed recently in a fire because they were chained to poles.
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| June 26, 2001 | -
Doctors in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, removed 26 ounces of material, including 222 rusty nails, from the stomach of a crazy man.
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| May 1, 2001 | - The Stroh Brewing Company settled a lawsuit with the estate of Crazy Horse, the Ogala Sioux warrior, over the marketing of Crazy Horse Malt Liquor, which was made in 7 breweries and distributed in 32 states; the company gave the Crazy Horse estate 32 blankets, 32 braids of sweet grass, 32 twists of tobacco, and 7 horses.
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| February 13, 2001 | - A drug used to cure sleeping sickness—which infects about 300,000 Africans a year, makes them go crazy, and kills them—was back in production after its former manufacturer discovered that it removes facial hair on women, thus ensuring a lucrative Western market for the drug; Doctors Without Borders had been down to its last 1,000 doses.
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| February 6, 2001 | - A crazed man attacked a kindergarten in Pennsylvania with a machete, injuring five children, a teacher, and the school principal.
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| November 21, 2000 | - New Jersey Republicans accused Democrats of providing crazy people in mental hospitals with absentee ballots; it was suggested that the crazy vote may have decided a close congressional race.
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