SIDELINES...

HOT SHOT

Emergency services in Thomaston, Georgia, responding to a call reporting an “accidental gunshot wound” found webcam model Lauren Hunter Daman, 27, who had shot herself in the vagina with a handgun. Apparently, the injury occurred while she was filming a video to upload to the website Chaturbate, where performers receive “tips” in return for sex acts. After being helicoptered to hospital in Macon, Daman was expected to make a full recovery, while the police classified the incident as “reckless conduct” and said it was unlikely to lead to criminal charges. thesmokinggun. com, 24 Nov 2021.

RESCUE ATTEMPT

Rescuers seeking a hiker who went missing for more than 24 hours on Colorado’s highest mountain were hindered in their attempts to track him down because he ignored repeated attempts to contact him by phone as he didn’t recognise the number. He eventually returned to his lodgings none the wiser that search and rescue had been making strenuous efforts to locate him. Newsweek, 25 Oct 2021.

SEX DEMON

In an appearance on The Jim Bakker Show, an evangelical Christian chat programme, apocalyptic author and preacher Sharon Gilbert gave a startling insight into her sex life, claiming that an alien impersonated her husband and tried to have sex with her as her real husband slept beside her. She said it then claimed to be Xerxes and again pressured her to have sex, so she grabbed its face, invoking Jesus, and pulled it off to reveal a reptile creature, accompanied by a pack of “gargoyles” underneath. “It startled me,” she said. deadstate.org, 24 Nov 2021.

TIME SLIP?

People arriving in the UK now have to fill in a public health passenger locator form online to help monitor Covid 19 cases. Users have been surprised to find that among the options available as their country of origin on the drop-down menu is the German Democratic Republic, which ceased to exist 30 years ago. Morning Star, 30 Jun 2021.