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Bizarre but true stories about real people collected by syndicated columnist Chuck Shepherd.
In December, Robert John Cusack, 45, was sentenced to 57 days in jail for a June smuggling caper on a flight to Los Angeles. He had four endangered songbirds and 50 illegal orchids in his luggage, and when one bird flew off down an airport corridor during an inspection, the agent asked if Cusack had anything else. “Yes,” he said. “I’ve got monkeys in my pants” (actually, two endangered pygmy monkeys from Thailand, which Cusack dug down for and handed over).
Police in Lowell, Mass., said in January that dozens of young Asian women had purchased sloppy breast augmentations, nose jobs and eyelid surgeries from a Cambodian couple posing as doctors in a bloody “Frankenstein’s workshop.”
A Venezuelan couple were sentenced to from two to seven years in prison by a New York City court in December for injecting a rooster-comb derivative into the faces of 20 women as cut-rate wrinkle-smoothers but which scarred them for life.
Authorities in Guadalajara, Mexico, arrested fake “Dr.” Myriam Yukie Gaona (a former stripper) in July for performing cut-rate plastic surgery on “hundreds” of women, augmenting the breasts and lips of some with industrial silicone and motor oil.
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