Subject: Oi!
Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 03:10:56 -0400

Two more items from Whiteboard News.
First, Poetic Symmetry or Fluke of Nature?  You decide...
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Hamilton, Ontario, Canada:

A tornado that tore through southwestern Ontario smashed two-ton trucks, 
flattened homes and barns and blew away a drive-in movie theater showing 
the film "Twister."

There were no immediate reports of casualties from Monday's storm, which 
followed a weekend of severe thunderstorms and flooding.

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Finally, I saw this one and thought, "and he thought he could get away
with this because... ?"
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Bristol, Virginia:

A Virginia man who disappeared on the day his parents thought they would
see him graduate is back at their home.

Brad Wagner, 21, received tuition and rent money from his parents for
four years and told them he would graduate May 11 from Virginia Tech.
But when they arrived in Blacksburg for the graduation, he was nowhere to
be found.

They learned he had not been enrolled since 1993.

They reported him missing to police May 13.

Wagner walked into a Williamson, West Virginia, police station Saturday
night and told officers he wanted to let his parents know he was all
right.  His father then went to West Virginia to pick him up.

Wagner's mother said he has not spoken much since returning early Sunday.
She said he has not discussed why he disappeared or what he did during
those seven days.

"He said 'Hi Mom,' and I said, 'Welcome home, I'm glad you're here,'"
Sandra Wagner said.  "He hasn't said much else.  But then, Brad's always
been kind of quiet."

Virginia Tech officials said Wagner entered the university in the fall of
1992 as an engineering major and was enrolled through fall 1993.  He did
not enroll the following spring.

Wagner's parents continued to give him money to cover tuition and living
expenses.

He had textbooks and would leave his house, saying he was going to class,
friends said.  He even told them he had an engineering job lined up in
Charlotte after graduation, and he had Charlotte-area apartment guides
around the four-bedroom house he shared with two roommates in downtown
Blacksburg.
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