News Of The Weird - July 22, 2004

Bizarre but true stories about real people collected by syndicated columnist Chuck Shepherd.

Oklahoma state Rep. Mike O’Neal, married with three children and the author of the state’s proposed “Defense of Marriage Act,” was charged with a felony in February for grabbing a woman’s buttocks in an Oklahoma City bar; he was also accused of making lewd comments to, and chasing after, her.

One of the sponsors of Georgia’s sanctity-of-marriage constitutional amendment (introduced in January), state Sen. Bill Stephens, was divorced in 1991 after 15 years of marriage but then had the marriage no-counted (“annulled”) in order to marry a Catholic woman in 1994, according to a public records check by Atlanta’s Southern Voice.

In January, a National Park Service ranger arrested Marvin Buchanon for drug possession along the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina. Buchanon had been discovered sitting in a truck one evening, naked, covered with baby oil and with women’s underwear at his feet.

In a widely reported incident in May, Roger Chamberlain, 44, was arrested in Binghamton, N.Y., after having allegedly smeared 14 containers’ worth of petroleum jelly on nearly every inch of the walls and furniture of a Motel 6 room (and who was found shortly afterward at another motel, himself covered with the substance).
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