The Curious Urinal Wednesday 10/6/2010

Real life Ghostbuster?

William Jimenez was 11 years old when he discovered he could see dead people. He would see them walking down a sidewalk, inside a house or standing along the side of a road. Some stood there looking confused, others picking their noses and looking rather foolish. One even looked like a big green blob of protoplasm.

"At first it scared me to death," said Jimenez, 60, a retired detective. "Sometimes I'd see the whole body and other times just part of it. They'd be wearing clothes from the time period in which they died. Other times they were naked and swinging from streetlights, usually singing 'How dry I am.'"

Jimenez says he eventually learned to see his talent as a gift and has parlayed it into a ghost-hunting business along with two friends who are also retired investigators with the California Highway Patrol.

"We don't use proton packs or silly stuff like that. We use bear traps and pepper spray to capture the ghosts. Then we take them out to the desert, where we set them free to live their lives... Well, unlives that is, in peace. Not out there scaring the bejesus out of people."


Local Attorney accidentally sues himself

Harvey Skrewem, one of the attorneys at the Findham, Skrewem, and Suim Law Firm accidentally filed a lawsuit on himself last week. Court records that Mr. Skrewem entered the courthouse and was immediately served with papers. As he read the filing, Mr. Skrewem immediately decided to counter-sue himself for filing a frivolous lawsuit. Also, there is no word on if he will represent himself in court.