`Minnesota high school student David Riehm submitted graphic essays in his creative writing class, prompting his teacher, Ann Mershon, to alert authorities. Not only was Riehm suspended from school, but authorities took him into custody and committed him to a psychiatric ward. A physician later determined David was neither mentally ill nor dangerous, and he was released. He and his mother filed a civil suit against school and county officials.’
`A British traffic officer caught driving at 256km/h but cleared by a court of speeding and dangerous driving faces a legal move at the High Court in London to convict him.
The Attorney General will appeal against the acquittal of constable Mark Milton and seek a High Court order that the advanced police driver should be convicted over his high speed blast in the early hours of December 5, 2003. Mr Milton, a qualified advanced driver, was recorded by an onboard camera in his upgraded unmarked Vauxhall Vectra police car traveling at 91 mph (146km/h) in a 30 mph (48km/h) zone and hitting 159 mph (256km/h) on the M54 motorway. The legal limit in Britain is 70 mph (112km/h).’
`An 80-year-old worker at a shuttered southern Illinois petting zoo has died at an Indiana hospital after being mauled by one of the zoo’s black bears.
Tom Phillips’ daughter-in-law said the man had continued to work at the Spotted Acres farm and petting zoo just outside Flora, Ill., since it closed to the public a couple years ago.
Deb Phillips said her father-in-law was trying to corral an escaped black bear Wednesday night with a bag of dog food when the bear attacked.’
`One-year-old Dima Verenitsin cannot walk yet, but he’s already received his marching orders from Russia’s army conscription office, the Izvestia has reported.
An administrative mix-up led to a demand that baby Dima, who turned one on January 9, register with Volgograd’s enlistment point, a ritual usually reserved for boys of 16, the newspaper said.
The infant’s grandmother, Lyubov Galushkina, told Izvestia that at first she thought the military was serious. “I wanted to go to the conscription point with Dima, but there was that cold snap and he got ill.”‘
`Angry families stormed fences at Hong Kong Disneyland and tossed their children over gates Thursday after the theme park sold out for an eighth consecutive day, according to a Local 6 News report.
The uproar outside Disney’s theme park followed similar chaos on Wednesday when hundreds of disgruntled visitors, many having made the trip from mainland China, were furious that their Lunar New Year vacation to Hong Kong was ruined.’
`Organizers of a vintage car rally in New Zealand have hired karate experts to protect vehicles from marauding native parrots, a news report said Friday.
About 40 members of a karate club have been enlisted to protect some 140 classic cars due to visit an alpine village near Mount Cook on New Zealand’s South Island on Sunday, the New Zealand Press Association reported.’
`A school bus driver faces child endangerment charges for masterminding a bullying system among middle school students that included a pecking order of abuse, authorities said.
Michael Cianci allegedly encouraged students in his “Death Cheese Club” — named for the yellow school bus — to use headlocks on other students and push them around.
“It was ’Lord of the Flies’ with adult supervision,” said William Smith, a spokesman for Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan.’
`President George W. Bush soon will ask Congress for another $120 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, bringing their total cost so far to about $440 billion. [..]
The vast majority of the money is for Iraq, where expenses are about $4.5 billion a month, according to administration officials. The U.S. campaign in Afghanistan is costing about $800 million a month.’
`If you can’t beat ’em … joint ’em? The City of Amsterdam has begun selling recently introduced “no toking” signs to prevent the official ones from being stolen as collector’s items, a spokesman said Friday.
The signs were created as part of an experimental ban on smoking marijuana on the street in “De Baarsjes,” one of the city’s poorer neighborhoods. The measure, which went into effect Feb. 1, was intended to reduce loitering and petty crime.
“On Wednesday we placed the first sign, and it was gone the next morning,” said Wim de Graaf. “We put up a new one Thursday, and it was taken the same night as well. That’s when the idea came to us to just sell them.”‘
`Two police officers are minus their patrol car after it was hit by a coal train following a pursuit near Newcastle early today.
Police say the incident happened at 2.45am (AEDT) when they chased a Holden Commodore with stolen registration plates in Metford, an outer suburb of Maitland. [..]
The police car became stuck on railway tracks before one officer followed the two offenders.
The other got out of the patrol car when he saw the train approaching.’
`I’m happy to say that silicone was not responsible for my recent stay in the hospital. I had a severe case of pneumonia. I’m not sure how or why the hospital doctors were so focused on the silicone; I can only guess that because of the controversy surrounding silicone usage, they immediately wanted to focus on that.
Early on, the hospital doctors said I may have pneumonia, but then they seemed to rule it out. The diagnosis on my discharge paperwork says, “Probable Silicone Embolism Syndrome”. It’s amazing that after 2 weeks in the hospital, they couldn’t be a little more sure about it.’
Be wared, this forum post it brought to you by the ExtremeCock Community and there are pictures posted. Bet you can’t guess why “silicone” keeps getting mentioned. 🙂
`Six people who seven years ago hacked off the limbs of four people have been ordered by the additional District and Sessions Judge Chaudhry Badardin at Kasur to undergo the same punishment along with a 54-year collective imprisonment, besides paying a fine of 100000 rupees. [..]
Taking up the appeal, the additional district and sessions judge ordered the accused, Ali Akbar’s hands to be amputated, besides handing out a 14-year imprisonment and a fine of 10,000 rupees.
Three others, namely Ali Sher, Ahmaddin and Fateh Muhammad, were handed out punishments involving chopping off the hands, a seven-year jail and a fine of 10,000 rupees each, reports the Dawn.’
`A sailor who sent a message out to sea in a bottle says he received a reply from England – accusing him of littering. “I kind of felt like no good deed goes unpunished,” Harvey Bennett, 55, told the East Hampton Star. [..]
Last week, he excitedly opened a letter from England, and was stunned by the reply:
“I recently found your bottle while taking a scenic walk on the beach by Poole Harbour. While you may consider this some profound experiment on the path and speed” of “oceanic currents, I have another name for it, litter.”
“You Americans don’t seem to be happy unless you are mucking about somewhere,” says the letter, signed by Henry Biggelsworth of Bournemouth, in Dorset County.’
`A Martha’s Vineyard man is charged with taking morphine from his mother’s intravenous drip minutes after she died.
Robert S. Peatie, 37, was arrested last week after a nurse at Cape Cod Hospital caught him pouring the morphine into a water bottle, the Cape Cod Times reported Friday.
His 62-year-old mother, Linda Peatie, had just died from an undisclosed illness.’
`A seventh-grader who wrote an essay saying his perfect day would involve doing violence to President George W. Bush is being investigated by the Secret Service.
The unidentified boy from West Warwick turned in the essay on Tuesday, and his teacher alerted school officials. The assignment was to write about what he would do on a perfect day.
Thomas M. Powers, Secret Service resident agent in charge in Providence, said the investigation is ongoing but the essay may have been a “cry for help.” Threatening the president is a felony, he said.’
Sleepless In Seattle trailer recut to look like a thriller / horror film. Funny.
(low and high quality Quicktimes)
`Female students were being paid for sex at the high school where two boys assaulted a developmentally disabled classmate in the auditorium, a social worker claims in a police report. [..]
A week before the developmentally disabled girl was assaulted March 9, the social worker told an assistant principal about the student’s claims, which included girls prostituting themselves for $10 in the auditorium and allowing sex acts to be videotaped, the report says.
The assistant principal, Vincent Clarno, “smirked and said he hears crazy stories all the time,” the report says.’
‘Following Numa Numa and Star Wars Kid’s footsteps, Britney Spears’ personal douche assistant, Kevin Federline, has became the latest webtard with a video featuring him jamming with “Popozao”.
Federline claims that “popozao” is a “Brazilian ass shaker” in the video.
However in Mandarin Chinese, “po po” means “old lady” or “mother-in-law”, and “zao” means “in a mess”.’
Videos of the “webtard” as well as some funny remixes.
`The security advisory — a mechanism Microsoft uses to both alert users of impending threats and give them advice or workarounds to apply — repeats recommendations that most security vendors have been offering since the worm debuted two weeks ago.
It also notes that infected PCs will be in danger on Friday, Feb. 3, when the worm will overwrite several popular file formats, including those of Microsoft Office, with useless data.
But according to the team in charge of Microsoft’s Windows Software Removal Tool, that program won’t be updated until after the Friday deadline passes.’
`Aric Jackson didn’t know a thing about the man who’d just called him a “nigger.” Didn’t know he was a Cleveland cop. Didn’t know he’d been accused of handing out white-supremacist literature in this very bar. All Jackson knew was that he was in for the fight of his life, because his girlfriend was white.’
`An issue of a student magazine which contained a “how-to-guide” on drug rape has been banned.
The official censor said the article in Otago University’s Critic promoted sexual violence and criminal activity.
Police and Rape Crisis expressed anger at the article – headlined “Diary of a drug rapist – no means no, but if they can’t talk, they can’t turn you down” – when it was published in September last year.’
`For decades, mankind has longed to be deaf. Jet engines, auto horns, the dullification of modern popular music – any one of these things alone might be worth the price of admission to a wholly silent world. So how does one sign up? Reproduced for the first time since its initial printing in 1972, we are proud to present its revised, expanded, fully up-to-date illustrated manual of contemporary American sign language, sometimes referred to as “finger spelling”.’
`U.S. officials didn’t apologize Wednesday but said they’re investigating a “regrettable” incident in which soldiers fired at a car carrying four Canadian diplomats in Baghdad.
Canadians are disputing a U.S. version of events, saying a military convoy fired at them without warning, with one bullet coming dangerously close. No one was injured.’
`Police are staggered by the amount of money gullible Australians are losing to Nigerian investment scammers.
The long-running internet-based rort has netted more than $7 million from Queenslanders alone, and the loss Australia-wide is likely to be far higher, police say.
Among those being duped are financial advisers, lawyers and university professors, and one person had put $2.2 million into the hands of scammers over the past two years.’
`The Hokkaido Prefectural Government is considering outlawing the purchase of used underwear from teenage girls, local government officials said.
The prefectural government is expected to revise the ordinance on the wholesome education of youths to incorporate a clause that would ban adults from buying used underwear directly from girls aged below 18. Violators would face up to one year in prison or a fine of not more than 500,000 yen.’
`A flock of pigeons fitted with mobile phone backpacks is to be used to monitor air pollution, New Scientist magazine reported on Wednesday.
The 20 pigeons will be released into the skies over San Jose, California, in August.
Each bird will carry a GPS satellite tracking receiver, air pollution sensors and a basic mobile phone.
Text messages on air quality will be beamed back in real time to a special pigeon “blog,” a journal accessible on the Internet.’
`Depending on who you talk to, a political aide who cleaned up a non-political mess deserves either a gold star or a slap on the wrist.
Mike Patton took on extra duties last Thursday when he mopped up what he called a “poo apocalypse” in a downtown public library.
Thursday afternoon, a patron of the Ottawa Public Library opened the men’s bathroom door to discover a toilet seat and surrounding floor covered in feces.
“Clearly someone was not feeling well and had a bit of a diarrhea issue, and it was all over the seat and the floor and the toilet, in the stall area,” said Patton, who revisited the scene of the grime with CBC on Tuesday.’
`US oil giant Exxon Mobil has posted a quarterly profit of $9.9bn (Ł5.55bn), the largest in US corporate history, on the back of record oil and gas prices.
Profit was up 75% and revenue rose 32% to more than $100bn. [..]
Oil and gas companies have been benefiting from the rising cost of oil, brought on by the two hurricanes which hit the Gulf of Mexico in late summer, disrupting output.’
`A man who called police to report his marijuana was stolen was arrested after police recovered the pot and invited him to come to the Public Safety Building to identify it. [..]
Tippetts called police Monday evening after someone broke a window, got cut on the glass and crawled into his home while he was away. He told police the only thing missing was a quarter-pound bag of marijuana he was selling.
Tippetts also told officers that a man called him about buying some marijuana earlier in the day, but Tippetts was on his way to work and told the caller no. He gave police the caller’s name.’
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