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.
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