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...quite literally with a bang. The accident took place in 1999 on a deserted road in Western Australia, where the eminent art critic, author and television personality (The Shock of the New, Goya) was making a TV series on his native country. Thanks to a passing Aborigine named Joe Fishhook, Hughes survived the crash. So did the three men in the car with which he collided head-on. Because it appeared that Hughes may have strayed over the center line, he was prosecuted for the crash (he got off lightly), sued by the prosecutor for defamation (he settled) and skewered...
GETTYSBURG, Pa.—The lights on the map flashed and darkened. A line of blue dots formed a fishhook curve as the red lights advanced. I was sitting in a darkened room as the battle played out in front of me. “In what many historians regard as the bloodiest fighting of the entire war…” a recorded narrator intoned. We watched the red lights blink towards the blue lights, hover, and fall back. Three days. And 50,000 casualties.The blonde woman in front of me shook her head. The narrator moved...
...arrested immediately after the shooting and arraigned on Wednesday, is an animal-rights activist and long-term member of an environmental group that legally challenges farmers who seek to expand their operations. A principled vegan who once told an interviewer he couldn't abide the cruelty of baiting a fishhook, Van der Graaf lived in the small town of Harderwijk with his wife and three-month-old baby. "He was not given to jokes or eccentricities," says Caroline Hoogendijk, a director of the Dutch Veganism Association who worked closely with Van der Graaf. Wien van den Brink, head...
...life was saved by an Aborigine. His name was Charlie Fishhook. He was driving back toward Broome with his wife and teenage daughter when he saw my wreck on the blacktop. He stopped and checked that I was breathing. He couldn't get much out of me but figured that I must have been fishing at Eco Beach with Danny. So he peeled off and headed for the resort. Meanwhile, some Aborigines of the Bidyadanga people, who lived not far from the crash site, began to converge on the car. They tried gently to free me but couldn't. Later...
...example, Nova Products Inc., in Cookeville, Tenn., sells a Police Special to law agencies that delivers 75,000 volts from two metal tips at the end of the prod. Air Taser Inc., in Scottsdale, Ariz., manufactures an air gun that can zap an assailant 15 ft. away with two fishhook-like darts connected by thin wires to the power unit. Stun Tech Inc., in Cleveland, Ohio, produces an electrobelt that wraps around a prisoner's waist. If the prisoner becomes unruly, a guard pushes a button on a transmitter to deliver a searing charge straight to the kidneys...