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DEA agent shoots self in gun safety class

ORLANDO, Fla., April 30 (UPI) -- The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency is investigating an Orlando, Fla., agent who shot himself in the leg while conducting a gun safety class for children.

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The unidentified agent was conducting the class at a the Callahan Center when he suffered the wound in the thigh, the Orlando Sentinel reported.

The shooting Thursday night was ruled an accident by Orlando police. He was treated and released at a hospital.

The presentation was part of a class called "The Game of Life, the Game of Golf" and was sponsored by the Orlando Minority Youth Golf Association.

The agent was explaining about making good life choices, and it included the gun presentation.

The agent emptied the gun of ammunition as he pointed it toward the floor, but when he released the slide it fired into his thigh. Apparently there was one round left in the chamber.

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"Everyone was pretty shaken up, but the point of gun safety hit home," said Vivian Farmer, 52, who watched with her 13-year-old son.


Wife asks: 'Did you want flies with that?'

KENT, England, April 30 (UPI) -- The last dinner a woman in Kent, England served her philandering husband was a pastry pie filled with meat, vegetables and dog poop, The Mirror reported.

Cindy Wilson Ham, 42, confessed to the vengeful stunt for a television documentary, "Revenge: Getting Even With Your Ex," which will air in England next Wednesday.

She said she was beside herself when she learned her husband of 25 years had an 18-month-old child by another woman, and threw him out of the house.

After some rumination, she invited him back for a last dinner.

"I thought well, if he can talk crap and come out with crap he is going to eat some crap," she said.

Her husband wolfed it down and told her "That was the best pie I've eaten in ages."

When he later learned what she had done, he simply said: "Evil."


Japanese airline suspends sleepy pilot

TOKYO, April 30 (UPI) -- The captain of a Japanese commercial passenger plane has been suspended for falling asleep while navigating, the Kyodo news agency reported Friday.

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All Nippon Airways said passengers on the flight, which took off from Haneda Airport for a domestic destination, were never in any danger because the aircraft was on autopilot.

The 50-year-old captain, who had 12,000 hours of flight time, was found dozing by an examiner of the Japanese Transport Ministry who happened to enter the cockpit to check the operating procedures.

All Nippon suspended the pilot, whose identity was not released.


Democrats upset over GOP joke

BOSTON, April 30 (UPI) -- Masachusetts Democrats are upset over an e-mail relayed by the state's top military official that derides the party and this summer's national convention.

National Guard Adjutant General George W. Keefe, who may be called upon to assist in convention security, didn't write the parody but sent it around to friends within the Republican administration of Gov. Mitt Romney.

It called Democrats flag-burners, mocked Sen. Ted Kennedy's drinking habits and suggested the convention host a "terrorist appeasement workshop."

Reference was also made to a Saddam pep rally, John Kerry's medal toss, abortion, welfare and gay marriages.

"On reflection, I regret that action," Keefe said.

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