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News of the Weird for June 19

A 53-year-old man with failing eyesight and who had recently undergone intestinal surgery told Sonoma, Calif., police that on Sunday afternoon, May 1, a woman had come to his home and instructed him to drop his pants and get face-down on the bed so that she could administer an enema. He said he assumed his doctor had sent her and thus complied, and it was over in two minutes, and she was gone. The doctor later said he had no idea who the woman was. (In the 1970s, in the Champaign, Ill., area, Michael Kenyon operated similarly as the “Illinois Enema Bandit” — and inspired the late Frank Zappa’s “Illinois Enema Bandit Blues.”)

The entrepreneurial spirit!

∫ Several funeral homes in the United States have drive-thru windows to serve rushed mourners or those stressed by the parlor experience. “Not quite as emotional,” said one visitor to the Robert L. Adams Mortuary in Compton, Calif., referring to the need not to linger in the queue of bereaved, idling motorists. The Adams facility was even more popular during the peak of gang murders in the area, according to an April Los Angeles Times report, because the drive-thru window’s bulletproof glass rendered unnecessary the precarious indoor service in which gangbangers tried to further desecrate late rivals’ corpses.

∫ Noses Know: (1) In April, two Italian entrepreneurs introduced a perfume meant to evoke the scents of a person’s blood, varying by type (A, B, AB, O) — but with no actual blood. A prominent member of the U.S. “vampire community” fondly described the “intriguing” olfactory sensations of Type B (the “black cherry, pomegranate and patchouli infusions”) and Type O (“raspberry, rose hips and birch”). Another “vampirist” called the whole idea “cheesy.” (2) Artist Charity Blansit (aka Cherry Tree) told AOL News in May that she has been working on a fragrance based on her own urine (although not prepared to bring it to market yet), enhanced mainly with sugar.

Fine points of the law

Because of a loophole in Michigan law (which, at press time, legislators were working to fix), a winner of the “Make Me Rich” lottery game in July 2010 (publicized value: $2 million) has been openly receiving the same food-stamp allotment he had been receiving before he won. In May 2011, confronted by WNEM-TV in Saginaw, winner Leroy Fick was defiant about his food stamps. Currently, eligibility is based on regular income, and Fick had taken his payoff last year in one lump sum.

Acupuncture in Houston,TX

Quit Smoking Acupuncture Program

Frequently, with nervous smokers, we may recommend herbs to calm the mind.

Of course, we do not guarantee your success, but our percentage rate of smokers who quit and remain free of the addiction is quite high. Many people are able to greatly reduce or quit after only one treatment, but our experience is that it is very easy to pickup the habit again within a couple of weeks. This is why we recommend a minimum of three treatments, with herbs.

The first few days after the initial treatment are crucial to quitting. If the desire to smoke becomes unbearable during this period, we recommend you call us immediately for an appointment for acupuncture.

Excess coffee and alcohol play a part in the smoking addiction, and we recommend that smokers seriously consider cutting down or stopping this use also to facilitate their quitting smoking.

TESTIMONIAL: ACUPUNCTURE TREATMENT FOR SMOKING – G. W., Accountant (age 56) I’d been smoking 5 years when Dr. Wu first treated me for the 2nd time in 1989 with acupuncture to help me quit smoking, he asked me why I picked up another cigarette after stopping only for 6 hours the first time. He was incredulous when I told him that my destiny was to smoke for 21 years, just like my Dad, but that being able to remember what it was like to be a non-smoker, even for just 6 hours was wonderful.

So, for the next 16 years, Dr. Wu and Jannie Chiang treated me, adding needle treatments for sinusitis and bronchial problems with herbal oils and herbs. And while they did get a bit frustrated with my inability to stay off cigarettes, they never became angry or went over the line; they stayed supportive and hopeful the whole time, even when I suffered from the most rancid breath ever, a strong allergic response to smoking.

Whenever I’d suffer from stress problems and my smoking went up from 11 cigarettes to a pack or a pack-and-a half (11→20, 30) a day, I’d come see them, get acupuncture, and drop back down to a 9-11 a day. And the relaxation benefits of needling lasted me at least 3 days, improving my home and work life.

I finally quit smoking August 13, 2005 at 8:20am, after seriously planning the event for a year. Over a 3 week period, I cut the number of cigarettes down and down, I took off a couple of days from work, did some yoga and lots of deep breathing, and then got acupuncture, kept my hands in my lap, took a bit of aspirin, did a lot more deep breathing, smoked my last one, and didn’t buy any more ever again. Smoking impulses came and went as chemical processes rebalanced themselves. Retraining the hand-mouth neural pathways was very challenging, as was throwing away cigarette lighters. I went on a week long vacation to Missouri to break free from the patterns associated with work, convenience store, etc. I developed tools of the imagination to help free me from the smoking burden, like imagining a Samurai Warrior in front of me with a sword parrying away, defending me against, and rejecting unhealthy thoughts.bap, bap, bap, just like I did when I was a child.

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