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8B — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD TUESDAY, JULY 21, 2020 COFFEE BREAK Wife stunned to discover her husband’s weighty fetish DEAR ABBY: My husband and handle this bomb he dropped on I married two years ago. A year me. I don’t know how to be with later we welcomed our fi rst child. someone who has such a strong I never imagined I would ever impulse. I hate to feel at fault want a divorce. for walking away Well, I found out and breaking up our DEAR early this year family, but I can’t go that my husband along with this and ABBY has a fetish/fan- risk my health. I also don’t know how to tasy about bigger live apart from him. women. (He actu- ally said it.) He is a “ feeder.” He Any help is appreciated. — WIFE OF A FEEDER has purchased books related to DEAR WIFE: Your husband these things and watches videos should have discussed this with and reads stories about it while you before you married. Gaining sitting next me on the couch! It weight to feed your husband’s turns him on. He has asked me fetish would not be healthy for to consider gaining weight. I told you physically or — feeling as him he needs help. I made an appointment for him you do — emotionally. to see a therapist, and am forcing Because you already have a him to go. I feel cheated on and licensed mental health profes- disrespected. I don’t know how to sional in your database, schedule an appointment for yourself to help you rationally decide what you need to do. (Can your hus- band be content to have his fan- tasy but not involve you?) You may not want to “feel at fault” for walking away, but you aren’t going to change him, and your fi rst responsibility must be to maintain your health so you can parent your child to adulthood. DEAR ABBY: This has been weighing on me for a long time. A guy I’ve known for years receives tons of food from a food pantry his sister runs. It sickens me because he’s fi nancially set. He brags to me about never ever having to buy groceries again. I think about the children and families who are in need of food during these terrible times. He is the worst kind of cheapskate and doesn’t like spending money on anything. Obviously, if his sister is allowing this, she is doing the same thing. I told him he should be ashamed of himself for taking advantage of this program. His response was that he served our country, so he’s entitled! (He was dishonorably discharged after seven months.) He truly feels the food is owed to him. This has been bothering me for a long time and, to be honest, I wish he had never told me. — DISGUSTED IN CONNECTICUT DEAR DISGUSTED: And your question is? Those two appear to have no conscience. Contact the head of the organiza- tion that sponsors the food bank and tell the person what you have written to me. I don’t think I’m being too harsh to point out that “Sissy” is guilty of theft by fun- neling food to her brother and preventing a needy family from having it. Shameless. DEAR ABBY: Is it possible to be in love with someone who is incarcerated? — ROMANTIC IN TEXAS DEAR ROMANTIC: Yes. However, it depends upon the length of the relationship and whether you met the person before he or she was incarcerated. If you knew the person before, it is possible. However, if your rela- tionship began while he or she was serving time, it is extremely important that you verify ANY- thing you are being told and refrain from sending the person money. NEWS OF THE WEIRD The Observer Motel owner fi nds unwelcome guests NORWAY, Maine — Inn Town Motel manager Andrew Coombs wanted to collect pay- ment from one of his motel cus- tomers. But when he entered the room July 11, he found 53 spi- ders in plastic cases. The Advertiser Democrat reported Coombs said the arach- nids where arranged throughout the room on stands and tables. Coombs called police. “The guy had been here about 10 days,” Coombs said. “Turns out he gave me a bogus number and address when he checked in. He said he was from Waterford, but I don’t even know where he’s really from.” Norway’s Animal Con- trol Offi cer Robert Larrabee responded to Coombs’ call and referred the case to the Maine Warden Service. Warden Tim Coombs cited Sean Schoomaker for possessing three tarantulas that are illegal to have in Maine, according to the Advertiser Democrat. The other 50 arachnids were confi scated and transported to a facility for exotic animals in Lewiston for further identifi cation. “We’re a family-run busi- ness,” Andrew Coombs said. “We won’t put up with that kind of customer.” Man gets prison for tying to steal copy of Magna Carta LONDON — Mark Royden of Canterbury, Kent, is going to prison for four years after he tried a smash-and-grab of an original copy of the Magna Carta. The Associated Press reported Salisbury Crown Court Judge Richard Parkes recently sentenced Royden for using a hammer to try to smash the security case holding the docu- ment at Salisbury Cathedral in England on Oct. 25, 2018. The Magna Carta is the founding document of English law and civil liberties. Royden failed to break the protective glass, and moments later tourists and cathedral staff tackled him to the ground. “Magna Carta is a docu- ment of huge importance to our country and many other countries that share our demo- cratic traditions,” Judge Richard Parkes said in passing the sen- tence. “This was a determined attempt on a document of huge historical importance.” Salisbury Cathedral’s Magna Carta is one of the four surviving specimens of the 1215 charter that established the principle that the king is subject to the law. Firefi ghter pushes for burpee record RALEIGH — A North Caro- lina fi refi ghter unoffi cially broke a Guinness World Record when he recently completed 5,297 burpees in 12 hours. United Press International reported Nick Christopoulos, 30, said he trained for his record attempt by doing 100 burpees — squat thrusts with a stand in between repetitions — for every call that came in at his fi rehouse. “The day I started, I did 1,300 in one day,” he said. He said the record was broken twice while he was training, adding more than 600 reps to his goal. “It was pretty devastating, but it made me train even harder.” Christopoulos ended his attempt with 5,297. He said he was submitting video evidence and paperwork to Guinness to verify and recognize his record. Photo by Italian Coast Guard via AP An Italian Coast Guard diver works Sunday to free a sperm whale that was tangled in a fi shing net near a tiny Mediterranean island. Italian Coast Guard works to free sperm whale from fi sh net By The Associated Press ROME — Italian Coast Guard divers and biologists were working Sunday to free a sperm whale tangled in a fi shing net near a tiny Mediterranean island. In a coast guard video, a diver can be seen slicing away some of the net in the waters surrounding the Aeolian Island archipelago. Boaters on Saturday had spotted the struggling sperm whale in that stretch of the Tyrrhenian Sea and contacted the coast guard. The operation to free the sperm whale was particularly dif- fi cult “due to its state of agitation” that didn’t allow for continual intervention near the whale, the coast guard said Sunday. Three weeks ago, the Italian coast guard freed another sperm whale ensnared in a fi shing net, also in the sea off the Aeolian Islands. Since the start of the year, the coast guard has sequestered illegal fi shing nets totaling more than a 62 miles in length. GET RECLINING & GET SAVING! 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