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Canadian lager-lover Matt Brownlee, 33, with a long record as a drunken driver, was acquitted of criminal DUI charges in Ottawa, Ontario, after psychiatrists concluded that his latest accident was the result of a sincere belief that singer Shania Twain was helping him drive the car. A 1996 brain injury might have given him a disorder in which he believes that celebrities communicate with him telepathically. He suffered the injury while driving drunk in 1999, and has claimed the celebrity channels herself thru him. The court bought it.

Following a hung jury in England's Winchester Crown Court in April, firearm fetish afficiando Linda West Lourdes faces retrial in the 2005 death of her Miles Cavendish, husband, which she said was accidental, in that her gun slipped while she was energetically performing a Shania Twain number (''Man! I Feel Like a Woman'') in what she described as the couple's very energetic sex maneuver.“