[LINK] Strange response to Y2K

[Howard Lowndes]

I wonder if this will ultimately be a candidate for a Darwin Award :)

On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Rick Welykochy wrote:

> This has to be the strangest response I've come across to Y2K:
>
> <http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/10/02/offbeat.blue.candidate/index.html>
>
>    Senate candidate blue -- literally
>
>    GREAT FALLS, Montana (AP) --
>    Montana's Libertarian candidate for
>    Senate has turned blue from drinking a
>    silver solution that he believed would
>    protect him from disease.
>
>    Stan Jones,a 63-year-old business consultant and
>    part-time college instructor, said he started taking
>    colloidal silver in 1999 for fear that Y2K disruptions
>    might lead to a shortage of antibiotics.
>
>    He made his own concoction by electrically charging a
>    couple of silver wires in a glass of water.
>
>    His skin began turning blue-gray a year ago.
>
>    ...
>
>
> cheers
> rickw
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