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http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/Southwest....ap/index.html
VICTORIA, Texas (AP) -- Sheriff's deputies searching a tractor-trailer rig in south Texas early Wednesday found 16 people dead inside.

Victoria County sheriff's deputies made the discovery about 2 a.m. after a reported disturbance inside a trailer at a truck stop near Victoria, said Stuart Posey, an investigator with the sheriff's department.

It wasn't immediately clear how many people were in the back of the tractor-trailer when it was opened or how long they had been there, Posey said.

Victoria radio station KTXN reported that about 50 people were inside and 12 were hospitalized, including two in intensive care.

Federal immigration agents were headed to the scene, Posey said.

The truck stop is along Highway 77, about 230 miles from the Mexican border.

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Originally posted by Optimist Prime
I don't have the story link to this but a kid was killed playing baseball. He was at bat and a wild pitch hit him in the chest, causing his heart to into defibulation. He died after being in the hospital.

That is really sad, just playing ball and then..gone.

The pitch wasn't intentional. But how do you feel if you're that kid who was pitching and you found out you killed some one. I would never play ball again. At least not for a long while.

[AlphaSigOU]

Originally posted by lifesaver
50 of our state legislators have walked out of the legislature in an effort to stop all legislation. They have fled the state, as the speaker of the house has ordered arrest warrents drawn up. They actually have 800 numbers to call in sightings of the missing house members. (DPS number for information on missing lawmakers: 1-800-525-5555) THey hare reportedly fled to Oklahoma, where, as far as I am concerned, they can stay. This is such bullshit. What is going on in my state????

Here's a quick solution... dissolve the Texas legislature and let Gov. Perry rule by decree! Nahhh.... smacks too much of absolute totalitarianism... another excuse for the Democrats to stay at Ardmore, Oklahoma's five-star hotel -- the Holiday Inn!

They stay there too long, they might lose their Texas 'citizenship' (which makes their seat in the legislature vacant) and become -- God forbid -- Oklahoma residents! Hell, make 'em pay Oklahoma state income taxes!

[The1calledTKE]

Girl forced to choose from doing topless jumping jacks or going to jail.

Reuters
Posted May 15 2003, 4:01 PM EDT

PENSACOLA -- A Florida policeman resigned after a teenager complained that he made her do jumping jacks while topless to avoid arrest, Pensacola police said Thursday.

The 16-year-old and a 19-year-old man were kissing in a parked car when Officer Patrick Shields confronted them, police said.

The officer told them they could be arrested on trespassing and lewdness charges and asked them to suggest an alternative punishment, adding that the girl's punishment should be ''embarrassing,'' the police report said.

She offered to do jumping jacks and push-ups and ``Shields agreed and then shined his flashlight on the female while she did five jumping jacks without her shirt,'' the report said. The man did 20 jumping jacks, also shirtless, and Shields let them go, police said.

Police said the teens said they had had their shirts and trousers on when they got out of the car, but removed their shirts before doing the exercises.

The teens' parents complained to police. When questioned, Shields said he was trying to scare them and had never intended to arrest them. ``He did not deny making the couple do exercises but said the female was fully clothed when she did the jumping jacks.''

Shields, 31, resigned Wednesday and was still under criminal investigation, police said.

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School Is Out in Oregon, but Not Everyone Is Rejoicing
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By SAM DILLON The New York Times

HILLSBORO, Ore., May 23 This affluent Portland suburb shut down its schools today for the summer, three weeks early, becoming the first of 84 Oregon school districts to close ahead of schedule this year for lack of money.


The early closing here left thousands of parents scrambling for emergency child care, hundreds of teachers seeking temporary jobs and at least a few of the students believing they were shortchanged.

"I feel kind of cheated," said Chris Pitts, a graduating senior who took his last English final, bought a yearbook and bade farewell to teachers at Glencoe High School here today. "I'm not going to be as prepared for college as I should be."


Across the nation, schools have been struggling with budget cuts forced by the recession, and thousands of districts have laid off janitors, canceled school plays or shut down libraries. But only in Oregon, where there is no sales tax to compensate for declining state income tax revenues, has the recession caused such havoc that 84 of the state's 198 districts have been forced to lop off the end of the school year. Six other districts cut days from the year, but not from the end.


Joseph Rodriguez, the Hillsboro superintendent, said each school day here costs $400,000, about 87 percent of which pays salaries. After the Legislature cut 10 percent of state school aid, Hillsboro's financial shortfall forced him to recommend that the local school board cut 17 days from the calendar, about 15 of which were instructional days.


"We made the best decisions we could, given very poor resources," Mr. Rodriguez said. "The people of Hillsboro have every right to be upset. I certainly am."


Teachers have been forced to make compromises. John Gibbs, a high school science teacher, said the shortened schedule permitted him to discuss the solar system in his astronomy course but not the stars or the evolution of the universe.


Few students seemed upset by the premature onset of summer.


"Yaaaaaay!" shouted Justin Flock, a 7-year-old at North Plains Elementary School. "Sometimes the math they do in school is kind of hard, and now I won't have to get up early in the morning."


Justin's mother, Jamie Flock, the manager of a flower nursery who volunteers at her son's school each Wednesday by grading spelling tests, rushed to qualify his views.


"He's a typical little boy with better things to do than go to school," she said. "But the rest of us think this is really a shame because the students needed the time in class."


Nowhere but in Oregon has the school calendar been so disrupted, but a majority of the nation's 15,000 public school districts are facing financial difficulties of varying severity, Dan Fuller, a lobbyist for the National School Boards Association, said. He estimated the 50 states' combined budget deficits at $52 billion to $82 billion.


"Those deficits are putting enormous pressure on school boards," Mr. Fuller said, adding that many local board members have been calling the association's office in Alexandria, Va., about federal help. "They're asking, `How can I talk to my congressman so they'll understand our problem?' "


But some national experts said unions and other special interest groups were exaggerating the financial crisis of the nation's schools, as well as the consequences of shutting some schools early.


"The sky is not falling," James Guthrie, a professor of public policy at Vanderbilt University, said. "As a nation we've lengthened the school year, and nobody can see that achievement has gone up. Twenty years ago the school year was, on average, 170 days long, and now it has risen to 180 days. But I haven't seen any startling increases in student achievement in that period."


Oregon law permits local districts to apply for waivers from minimum classroom instruction requirements, which are measured in hours and vary by grade level but are roughly equivalent to 175 days. In most states, laws require a minimum of 180 instructional days, so hard-pressed districts outside Oregon have mostly cut costs in ways other than shortening the school year.


In Hillsboro, 16 miles west of Portland, where 31 schools dot a landscape of rolling farmsteads of red clover as well as several high-tech plants, the early closing has meant a considerable cut in the pay of teachers, administrators and other staff members. According to the local teachers' union contract, a rookie instructor with a bachelor's degree earns an annual salary of $31,174. A teacher at the top of the pay scale, which requires a master's degree and at least 14 years of experience, earns $62,498, Margaret Doherty, an official at the Hillsboro Education Association, said.

But Scott Ellis, a Glencoe High School history teacher who has taught for 23 years and whose pay is at the top of the scale, said his monthly paychecks of April through August were to be reduced by $600 each because of a lost 17 days.

Like his colleagues, Mr. Ellis was obliged to cut back his curriculum, which is organized at Glencoe on a trimester system. Surmising by early spring that the authorities would shorten the school year, he eliminated a two-week overview of early American history that he has traditionally taught at the beginning of his third trimester American Studies course. That meant cutting out the American Revolution, the Civil War and Reconstruction, and picking up the nation's narrative at the beginning of the 20th century.

Five miles to the north, at North Plains Elementary School, Nancy E. Scheele, a second-grade teacher, said she had eliminated the study of magnets in science, monetary calculations in arithmetic and had shortened her lessons on telling time.

Such curricular triage has demoralized most Hillsboro residents, including not only the parent and student groups who have pressed for stable state education aid, but also the antitax campaigners who have helped to defeat ballot initiatives to raise school funds.

"Cutting the school year is a horrible idea," said Tom Cox, a Hillsboro management consultant who ran for governor last year as the Libertarian candidate and who helped to defeat a Jan. 28 ballot initiative that would have raised Oregon's income tax to finance schools, jails and other agencies. "Kids need to be in school. But our taxes are being eaten up by the educational bureaucracy. I would have gone after more concessions from the teachers and kept the schools open."

Ian Atkins, a graduating senior who has organized student protests against the school cuts at the Oregon Capitol in Salem, expressed mixed emotions about the shortened year, which eliminated his final exams.

"I have a giddy feeling that says, `Great, no finals!' " Mr. Atkins said. "But the adult growing inside me says this won't be great for college transcripts."

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Man, what is wrong with people. I guess they want a stupid population.

[The1calledTKE]

ATLANTA - The man suspected of killing six women in Louisiana was arrested in Atlanta on Tuesday, the FBI (news - web sites) said.

Derrick Todd Lee, 34, was taken into custody about 8:30 p.m. by Atlanta police working with a joint FBI-metropolitan Atlanta task force, FBI spokesman Joe Parris said.


Parris said he did not know where Lee was arrested. The suspect had been living in a dingy Atlanta motel but left Monday about the time a federal fugitive warrant was issued for his arrest.


"It is my understanding he was arrested without incident," Parris said.


Authorities suspect Lee of killing at least five southern Louisiana women since September 2001, as well as two earlier slayings.


The serial killings unnerved Louisiana women and triggered a 10-month DNA dragnet in which police took cheek scrapings and swabbings from more than 1,000 men

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Blame it on 'The Matrix'

Murder suspects are linking their crimes to The Matrix, the virtual reality from the blockbuster movie. But experts doubt that one film can spark that kind of violence.

By TOM JACKMAN
Washington Post
5/20/2003

WASHINGTON - Josh Cooke wasn't merely a fan of the hit movie "The Matrix." He believed he lived inside The Matrix, his lawyers say.

The 19-year-old had a huge movie poster hanging in his Oakton, Va., bedroom and a trench coat like the one worn by Neo, Keanu Reeves's character. He bought a 12-gauge shotgun, similar to one of the weapons Neo uses to fight the Matrix-generated "agents" in the movie.

And on Feb. 17, Fairfax County police say, he walked into his family's basement and shot his father seven times with the shotgun and his mother twice. He then called the police - twice - to calmly report the killings.

Cooke's fascination with the movie is shared by others who also have been charged with murder. Some high-profile crimes since the movie's 1999 release have allegedly been committed without any obvious motive other than attempts to escape The Matrix.

The premise is that in the late 20th century, once man perfected artificial intelligence in computers, the computers took over the Earth, which was mostly destroyed in the process.

Hundreds of years later, the computers have "harvested" the bodies of humans to provide energy, while the minds of those harvested humans exist in a computer-generated virtual world that mimics the late 20th century: The Matrix.

It is not uncommon for slaying suspects, especially those who are mentally unstable, to raise whatever is hot in popular culture in their defense or in interviews with police. And experts agree that one film alone is unlikely to spark that kind of violence.

But to the vulnerable psyches of those who may be mentally ill, films with suggestions of hidden evil and uncertain reality can reinforce paranoia and fear by helping unhealthy fantasy worlds to flourish, the experts say.

The cases in which "The Matrix" has emerged as a central theme span the country. Even last fall's sniper shootings in the Washington, D.C., region have overtones from the popular film. "Free yourself of The Matrix," sniper suspect Lee Boyd Malvo, 18, wrote in his jail cell. "You are a slave to The Matrix "control.' "

Earlier this month, in Ohio, a woman who told police that she lived in The Matrix and that "they commit a lot of crimes in The Matrix" was found not guilty by reason of insanity to charges of killing her landlord.

And in San Francisco, a man who believes he was sucked into The Matrix also was found not guilty by reason of insanity on charges that he killed his landlord.

Warner Bros. Pictures, which released the sequel "The Matrix Reloaded" last week, said there is no connection between the movie and the killings. In a statement, the studio expressed condolences to the victims of violent crimes. "However," the statement said, "any attempt to link these crimes with a motion picture or any other art form is disturbing and irresponsible."

But many lawyers are continuing to search for any links between art and actuality to defend their clients.

"The Matrix" has developed a huge following in the years since its release, enchanting fans with dazzling effects and a story incorporating aspects of doomsday, man-vs.-machine and biblical allegory.

"He's just obsessed with it," said Rachel M. Fierro, the attorney defending Josh Cooke against charges that he murdered his parents, Paul C. Cooke, 51, and Margaret Ruffin Cooke, 56. "I don't know why he's obsessed. . . . That's one of the reasons we've requested a neutral, independent psychiatrist - to determine whether he was sane and knew the difference between right and wrong."

A psychiatrist was appointed by Fairfax Circuit Court to examine Cooke after Fierro said in a motion that Cooke "harbored a bona fide belief that he was living in the virtual reality of "The Matrix' at the time of the alleged offenses."

Even experts who have studied the effects of violence in the media do not generally think that one film or one television show can launch such a violent impulse. But they believe that the cumulative effect of media violence in movies such as "The Matrix" can lead to actual crime, particularly in younger people and those already susceptible.

"When somebody commits a violent crime, you can't point to just one cause," said Joanne Cantor, a communications professor at the University of Wisconsin who has studied the effects of television and movie violence. But, she added, "I think these things can have really devastating effects on really vulnerable people. . . . If people are saying they were influenced by that movie, that movie was probably on their mind when they were planning these things."

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Billy the Kid,

http://www.msnbc.com/news/917607.asp

THERE ARE MANY stories about the death of Billy the Kid, with the prevailing history saying that Billy was gunned down by one the state’s most famous Wild West lawmen, Sheriff Pat Garrett.
There are others who say the Kid fled to England and died of old age, while another story has the gunslinger dying in Hico, Texas at the age of 90.
Tom Sullivan, a sheriff in Lincoln County, New Mexico earlier this month opened case number 2003-274, in which his office, with the cooperation of the state of New Mexico, will use 21st century technology to hopefully put put to rest questions about what actually happened at shoot-outs in 1881.
Sheriff Sullivan says that DNA testing can prove where the body of the real Billy the Kid rests, and that Sheriff Pat Garrett shot him dead on July 14, 1881 in a house in Fort Sumner, New Mexico.
“Now DNA comparisons can be done. They dug up the bones of Jesse James and even the bones of Thomas Jefferson to do DNA testing — and it worked,” Sullivan said. “Right now we’re just waiting for some advice on the proper procedures of exhumation of a body.”
Sullivan said he already has the go-ahead from the family to exhume the body of the Kid’s mother, who is buried in Silver City, New Mexico.
DNA DETERMINATION
The Kid, whose real name was Henry McCarty but who also went by William Bonney and Kid Antrim, is supposedly buried near the house in Fort Sumner where he was gunned down. A body reported to be the Kid will be exhumed for DNA testing, but the state may need seek permission to exhume a few more bodies near the site due to uncertainty over where the Kid’s actual grave is.
Sullivan hopes to compare the DNA of the Kid’s mother to that of the body in Texas, and to others closely linked with the Western outlaw.
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The project started three months ago after Sullivan visited a museum in Hico, Texas dedicated to Brushy Bill Roberts, who claimed in 1950 to be Billy the Kid. Claims by the museum that Billy the Kid died there suggests that Sheriff Pat Garrett shot someone other than the Kid in New Mexico and covered it up.
“That would make Pat Garrett a murderer. Now he’s our most famous sheriff — and a hero in my book — so I want to clear his name,” Sullivan said.
Billy the Kid was said to be involved in cattle rustling gangs and in the murder of at least four people — and as many as 21 — in the late 1800s. He was captured and jailed, then killed two deputies during his escape. He finally was tracked down by Sheriff Garrett and shot in the heart at age 21.
Sullivan and retired federal officer Steve Sederwall also want to recreate the crime scene of Billy the Kid’s escape from prison on April 28, 1881, and his shooting of law enforcement officers to determine once and for all what happened in the jailhouse.
“We’re going to look at this like a cold case file — though this one is extra cold,” said Sederwall, who said he has enlisted two Texas DNA experts to help in the investigation.
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson has thrown his support behind the investigation.
“Billy the Kid is an American legend. It is important that we historically uncover the true events,” Richardson said.

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I just read about this thing going on with Billy the Kid. It's one hell of a story.

[The1calledTKE]

3 , 14 yr old girls are youngest FBI teaching agents, teaching the agents how to be teenage girls.


Phuong Ly, Washington Post Thursday, June 5, 2003

As undercover assignments go, posing as a teenage girl online to catch pedophiles has its share of challenges for the typical FBI agent.

Should he ever capitalize words in instant messages?

Is it OK to say you buy your clothes at 5-7-9?

And Justin Timberlake -- is he still hot or is he so two years ago?

For those investigative details, the FBI calls on Karen, Mary and Kristin -- Maryland eighth-graders and best friends.

During the past year, the three have been teaching agents across the country how to communicate just like teenage girls, complete with written quizzes on celebrity gossip and clothing trends and assigned reading in Teen People and YM magazines. The first time the girls gave a quiz, all the agents failed.

"They, like, don't know anything," said Mary, 14, giggling.

"They're, like, do you like Michael Jackson?" said Karen, 14, rolling her eyes.

Probably the youngest instructors ever in an FBI classroom, the girls have become an invaluable help to Operation Innocent Images -- an initiative that tries to stop people from peddling child pornography or otherwise sexually exploiting children, FBI officials said. (The girls' last names are being withheld to protect them from harassment on the Internet and elsewhere.)

On Tuesday, at their middle school graduation ceremony, the girls each received a silver-framed letter of commendation signed by FBI Director Robert Mueller. In the letter, Mueller thanked them for developing the lessons that have directly helped catch pedophiles, despite their "busy 8th-grade schedule."

Operation Innocent Images was launched by the Baltimore FBI field office in 1995, and agents looked into 113 suspects in the first year. Over the years, Internet pedophiles have become more savvy and more suspicious about whether they are chatting with a law enforcement agent or a real teenager. Many of the suspects question the chatters on trends and pop culture, trying to catch the FBI agents off guard.

Karen, Mary and Kristin -- honor roll students, PacSun shoppers and aficionados of pink toenail polish -- have kept the FBI a step ahead, said Gary Bald, special agent in charge of the Baltimore office.

The girls were recruited after one of their fathers, an agent involved in the pedophile investigations, watched her instant messaging a friend and couldn't understand what she was typing. He realized that FBI training wasn't enough.

"We can teach agents how to be careful and make sure they're following the law and how to arrest people," Bald said. "But how to convince people they're a 13-year-old is something we need help on."

Agents estimate that at any given time, 20,000 pedophiles are online worldwide, trolling chat rooms after school hours for vulnerable teenagers. The program has led to the convictions of about 2,200 people across the country for swapping child pornography or arranging to meet minors for sex.

Around the FBI offices, Karen, Mary and Kristin have become like the agents' adopted daughters, getting hugs and high-fives from their students. But naturally, the adults often think they know best.

One agent kept insisting that he was right when he answered on a quiz that Timberlake was more popular than Destiny's Child. Another was miffed when the girls told the class that Led Zeppelin was just not cool. Some kept wondering why "l2m" in instant messaging couldn't be "love to meet," instead of "listen to music."

[Eirene_DGP]

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/0...eut/index.html
TOKYO, Japan (Reuters) -- Electronics giant Sony Corp unveiled a new upmarket brand on Tuesday in an effort to bring a sense of "cool" to a product lineup that has lost some of its cachet.

The world's largest consumer electronics maker said products bearing the new brand, called "Qualia," will be made only after a customer has placed an order.

"These days, we're concerned with how many we can sell or how much market share we can get, and as a result there are many products that never got made," Sony chief executive Nobuyuki Idei told a news conference.

"Qualia" does not come cheap.

Trying to outshine rivals
The first products in the range include a high-definition home theatre projector for 2.4 million yen ($20,300), a 36-inch Trinitron super-clear television for 1.3 million yen, and a digital camera that can fit in a shirt pocket but has two mega-pixel capacity -- and a 380,000 yen price tag.

The range also features a CD audio system in which a disc can be placed anywhere on a playing surface the size of a salad plate.

Qualia is part of Sony's strategy to differentiate itself from rivals such as South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and to restore its faded brand premium.

Sony stunned investors in April by posting its biggest quarterly net loss in more than eight years and warning that operating profit in the year to next March would slip to its lowest in nine years.

Taking the brand oversees
It has set no sales target for Qualia, but Idei said the technology developed by the brand's innovative products could be used in other areas of its business.

Products must be approved by Idei and Sony President Kunitake Ando before going into the development stage for the brand.

Sony officials did not say how many Qualia products will be rolled out this year but said 17 projects, including the four announced on Tuesday, are in advanced stages of development.

It will initially open Qualia shops in Tokyo and Osaka but hopes to take the brand overseas as soon as possible. The products will be made in Japan, and there will be consultation and after-sales service.

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Times reports on colonel who lured women he met via web


MSNBC

June 11 — While Col. Kassem Saleh was stationed in Afghanistan, he had plenty of support from back home. He could count on emails, letters and phone calls from his women — more than 50 fiancées who he met through Internet dating services. Now these women, recently clued in to his “chronic courting,” want the Army to take action, according to a report in Wednesday’s New York Times.

‘He wrote better than Yeats. He wrote better than Shakespeare. He totally intoxicated you with his feelings: “Oh, baby, I want to tell you how much I miss you.” “I can’t wait to get home to you.’”

One of Saleh's fiancee — ROBIN SOLOD FOR YEARS, according to some of the women, Saleh met women through Web sites like tallpersonals.com, match.com and christiansingles.com. What ensued were flowery emails, letters and satellite telephone calls from his bases in Afghanistan.
“He wrote better than Yeats. He wrote better than Shakespeare. He totally intoxicated you with his feelings: ‘Oh, baby, I want to tell you how much I miss you.’ ‘I can’t wait to get home to you,’ ” Robin Solod, 43, told the Times.
A member of the Army’s 18th Airborne Corps at Fort Bragg, N.C., Col. Saleh headed reconstruction and humanitarian efforts for the U.S.-led military operations in Afghanistan, Army spokesman Col. Roger King, told the Times.
The women want the Army to punish Saleh and according to King, the Army is investigating the matter, the Times reported.
His scheme fell apart this spring when a local Washington television station broadcast a story about a woman who was engaged to Saleh. MSNBC.com’s local news Web site picked up the story and other women who thought they were Saleh’s betrothed called the television station.

Solod read the news story on the Internet and tracked down Saleh’s “fiancée” in Washington despite his denials that he and the woman were “just friends.” Solod discovered that the two were indeed involved, an exposure that has deeply hurt the many women who thought they were soon headed down the aisle, according to the report.
According to some of the women, not even the sappy emails were unique. Saleh would reuse emails he received from his women and forward them to many others.
In one e-mail message that the New York Times said Solod supplied, he wrote: “You are my world, my life, my love and my universe. It’s like my mother used to say to me in Arabic when I was a little boy. Yi Yunni (my eyes), Ya hyyetti (my love), Ya elbee (my heart), and Ya umree (my life). She used to sing it to me so I would fall asleep in our one-bedroom apartment in the slums of Brooklyn.”
“We are not a group of stupid, naïve women,” Sarah Calder, 33, told the Times. “We are bright, intellectual, professional women. I can’t tell you how much he wooed us with his words. He made us feel like goddesses, fairy princesses, Cinderellas. We had all found our Superman, our knight in shining armor.”

[Optimist Prime]

Originally posted by 2blue
Times reports on colonel who lured women he met via web



‘He wrote better than Yeats. He wrote better than Shakespeare. He totally intoxicated you with his feelings: “Oh, baby, I want to tell you how much I miss you.” “I can’t wait to get home to you.’”

Thats not better than Yeats or Shakespeare

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Here is the story if you have trouble accessing this link. If you think we are scare of sharks (especially Jaws), here's a story that proves the opposite:

Naked man scares shark to death?

LONDON (Reuters) - A comedian could face criminal charges over the death of a "sensitive" shark after he jumped into a tank at an aquarium in the nude.


The 12-year old smooth hound shark -- which measured three feet (0.91 metres) -- died suddenly two days after Guy Venables jumped into its tank as a publicity stunt at the Brighton Sea Life Centre, southern England.


"This variety of shark is susceptible to stress. We are very concerned he died as a result of seeing Mr Venables jumping into the tank," Sea Life Centre's Lisa Handscomb told the Daily Telegraph newspaper on Friday.


"The shark is being examined by our biological services team and if it is found that he died from stress, we will prosecute Mr Venables for criminal damage."