School charges for toilet trips
MOSCOW (AP) - Pay toilets are not unusual, but in school?
For a short time, students at a high school in the southern Russian city of Taganrog had to do more than raise their hands and ask for permission to use the bathroom - they had to fork over cash. School officials instituted a plan to charge pupils for toilet trips in order to pay for repairs that were needed ...
Ky. Law Mandates Bathing Once a Year By JERIANNE STRANGE ELIZABETHTOWN, Ky. - A state law mandating that people take a bath once a year is just one of many unusual statutes that are or have been on the books in Kentucky.
Another state law stated that "No female shall appear in a bathing suit on any highway within this state unless she be escorted by at least two officers or unless she be armed with a club." The law was later amended with: "The provisions of this statute shall not apply to females weighing less than 90 pounds nor exceeding 200 pounds, nor shall it apply to female horses." |
'TWAS THE NIGHT OF THANKSGIVING
'Twas the night of Thanksgiving, but I just couldn't sleep.
I tried counting backwards, I tried counting sheep.
The leftovers beckoned - the dark meat and white, but I fought the temptation with all of my might.
Tossing and turning with anticipation,
The thought of a snack became infatuation.
So, I raced to the kitchen, flung open the door and gazed at the fridge, full of goodies galore.
I gobbled up turkey and buttered potatoes, Pickles and carrots, beans and tomatoes.
I felt myself swelling so plump and so round, 'till all of a sudden, I rose off the ground.
I crashed through the ceiling, floating into the sky,
With a mouthful of pudding and a handful of pie.
But, I managed to yell as I soared past the trees....
Happy eating to all, pass the cranberries, please.
May your stuffing be tasty, your turkey be plump.
Your potatoes 'n gravy have nary a lump.
May your yams be delicious, your pies take the prize.
May your Thanksgiving dinner stay off of your thighs.
From pepsiluver
Vilseck-based Army doctor sentenced in hashish case
By Steve Liewer, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Saturday, November 15, 2003
WÜRZBURG, Germany — A Vilseck-based doctor who used drugs while in Amsterdam, then bloodily botched an attempt to give a fake urine sample to Army authorities, will go to jail for a year ...
Knowing he could be subject to a random drug test at any time, Munnell said he had stored a sample of “clean” urine in his office at the Vilseck Medical Clinic before he went to Amsterdam. When the surprise drug test came Jan. 2, he took the sample and tried to inject it into his bladder. Instead, he badly injured himself.
“It didn’t work as I intended,” Munnell told the court. “It caused uncontrollable penile bleeding.”
Israeli customs have confiscated a cargo of 450 singing, dancing Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein dolls.
The battery-powered figures were seized by customs officials, who said they had the potential to incite.
"The law doesn't exactly say that you cannot own a Bin Laden doll, but neither he nor Saddam Hussein are exactly good educational role models,"
The cargo also included 450 Teletubby dolls.
'Master' and 'slave' computer labels unacceptable, officials say
LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- Los Angeles officials have asked that manufacturers, suppliers and contractors stop using the terms "master" and "slave" on computer equipment, saying such terms are unacceptable and offensive.
The request came after an unidentified worker spotted a videotape machine carrying devices labeled "master" and "slave" and filed a discrimination complaint with the county's Office of Affirmative Action Compliance.
"Based on the cultural diversity and sensitivity of Los Angeles County, this is not an acceptable identification label."
A form was sent to all departments to identify equipment carrying the labels "master" and "slave" or any other offensive terms.
Strange nosebleeds
Soon after travel writer, Broughton Coburn, returned from Nepal he began to experience regular, inexplicable nosebleeds.
They continued for three weeks until an embarrassing encounter in a teashop made him realise that something was seriously wrong.
As he was being served, the waiter took one look at him and fled in horror.
Broughton chased him down the street urging him to tell him what was wrong. But the boy would only point, wordlessly, at his nose.
Broughton returned home and sat in trepidation in front of a mirror.
 A thirsty aquatic leech |
"I swear it had two beady eyes on it. And it came out two or three inches, looked around and then retracted. I thought it was a dream, a vision of some sort."
In shock, Broughton rushed off to his doctor who tried to remove the mysterious creature.
But it wasn't going to give up its home easily.
"He had this thing pulled out eight or ten inches and I'm looking at it cross-eyed down the end of my nose, and he's looking at it, he has a look of absolute horror on his face. And the thing came off. And there was this leech."
Broughton had been invaded by an aquatic leech. It made its move while he was drinking from a mountain stream.
These thirsty bloodsuckers can drink three times their bodyweight at each feed and inject an anaesthetic so their victim feels nothing.
Psych patient runs amok on 'dozer
November 21, 2003
A MENTALLY disturbed man wreaked havoc in a bulldozer early yesterday, chasing police cars and ploughing through a hospital building on his rampage.
The 21-year-old, who escaped from a mental hospital smashed his way through the entrance of Campbelltown Hospital psychiatric wing before leaving a trail of destruction through nearby streets.
Six police cars cornered the man about 1am in Ambarvale Park, close to the hospital where he had smashed windows, doors, signs and a fence.
But they were helpless in the path of the rampaging 12-tonne RTA Volvo bulldozer. "He was coming straight for me and I swerved and hit a pole trying to escape," one officer said. The police car was badly damaged in the incident.
Police said the keys may have been left in the vehicle.
"We're not sure why he stopped but we were glad."
U.S. soldier accused of beating Iraqi prisoners says, `It is war'
DAVID B. CARUSO, Associated Press Writer
One of four American MPs charged with beating prisoners of war at a detention camp in Iraq said Tuesday: "We were doing our jobs. ... It is war. It is not back home where everybody is safe."
Shawna Edmondson, a 24-year-old Army reservist, accepted a demotion and a discharge.
Fellow soldiers testified that the four Pennsylvania reservists punched and kicked prisoners who were being brought to an American camp. One prisoner suffered a broken nose.
One soldier said that during the attack, a beaten prisoner was "screaming for his life."
Edmondson said she joined the reserves with the intent of getting training that would be useful in a career in law enforcement.
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