Chuck’s Hand-Picked Overnight Weird News for Friday
Mother of middle-schooler insists: A main reason why "school" exists is to enable my son to express his style
It's his right to wear makeup, lipstick, and nail polish (if not black then pink). Well, one thing it does teach the other kids at Garfield Middle is forbearance because it takes character for them to refrain from regularly ass-kicking the kid. WCPO-TV (Cincinnati)
Comments 'lipstick_boy'
Homeland Security tests mind-reading technology
They tried out the face-recognition software on 140 volunteers in Maryland and claim a 75-80 percent hit rate for ID'ing people who were supposedly trying to be deceptive or thinking dangerous thoughts. Sensors remotely scan a person's temperature, pulse, respiration, and gestures, even to the point (they say) of being able to distinguish ordinary, stressed-out airline passengers from those up to no good. Daily Telegraph (London)
Comments 'mind_reading'
Sheffield (England) Council rubs its forehead on the floor, to the god of political correctness
Ya can't have a funeral in Sheffield on a Saturday unless you're Muslim because all the parlors have to be on standby for those speedy burials required by Islam. One infidel family that had out-of-towners available only on Saturday found out the policy the hard way. Daily Telegraph (London)
Comments 'saturday_funerals'
Gerontological tragedies: Alzheimer's, osteoporosis, brake failure
All of a sudden, an SUV came barreling up the hill at 50 mph (up the hill, not down) on a fairway at Cloverleaf Golf Course near Pittsburgh, stopping only after it had careened into two trees, spun around, and burst into flames. The five seniors aboard were rescued, including the 82-yr-old driver, who insisted that he'd just "lost his brakes." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Comments 'brake_failure'
What a country!
China's space technology is obviously years ahead of the U.S.'s, in that its mission control had the ability, on September 25th, to quote in-flight dialogue among Shenzhou 7 astronauts . . who hadn't even launched yet . . and, according to its official news agency, wouldn't actually have the quoted conversation until September 27th. Associated Press via Yahoo
Comments 'china_astronauts'
Readers' choice
I didn't do a good job with the news yesterday, and some reader contributions piled up. Many thanks to many people for these tips. (1) Kentucky man went in for circumcision, woke up minus his stuff (Doctor: Umm, I happened to see a cancer, and I couldn't imagine you'd want a second opinion, so I sliced it off. You're welcome.) (2) Jose Cruz, 21, arrested for DUI in South Charleston, W.Va., had a "battery" charge tacked on when he allegedly lifted his leg several times and gassed the arresting officer (but the prosecutor said he's only doing the DUI). (3) A Wisconsin man was cited for disorderly conduct for buying a beer for his sons, ages 4 and 2, at the county fair (Bonus: It's not illegal for kids to hoist a few with their parents in Wisconsin). WLKY-TV (Louisville) /// Associated Press via Yahoo /// Post-Crescent (Appleton)
Comments 'readers_080926'
Your Daily Jury Duty
[no fair examining the evidence; verdict must be based on mugshot only]
According to the police, when her live-in boyfriend popped the question, Celeste Lagrant, 39, declined, via a knife-and-fist attack. WTSP-TV (St. Petersburg-Tampa)
Comments 'celeste_lagrant'
Eyewitness News
[news videos goin' around]
I can't find this slide show on a U.S. source, so beware of this, but it says here that recently in Houston (and irrespective of Hurricane Ike), a landlord happened to wander into one of his apartments to discover a new high in disgustingness. I mean, really. Daily Telegraph (Sydney) [click link inside the story for the slide show]
Comments 'houston_apartment'
More Things to Worry About on Friday
A female F State firefighter is being investigated for stealing a traffic-accident victim's foot from the scene (Seriously) . . . . . We've heard of dentists who use their tools to extort overdue bills from patients, but only when the patients return for subsequent treatment, but this German dentist didn't wait; he went to the deadbeat's house and yanked out the dentures . . . . . A Utah mother, driving her Ford Expedition, let her little tykes ride on the running board while she drove slowly around (only this time she went over a speed bump, and one kid's in critical condition) . . . . . Another one of those loco Japanese inventions: a personal, wearable airbag, in case you fall [Ed.: Oh, wait; this is a great invention, as anyone with elderly parents will recognize] . . . . . Update: A Nebraska man abandoned his nine children (ages 1 to 17) at a hospital, under the state's baby-drop-off law (no penalty for parents who give up their infants, except that Nebraska's law applies to all "minors"). Today's Newsrangers: Larry Ellis Reed, Candy Clouston, Emory Kimbrough, Bruce Alter, Mark Svevar, Pete Randall (and a slew of "Readers' Choice" finders)
Comments 'worry_080926'
It's his right to wear makeup, lipstick, and nail polish (if not black then pink). Well, one thing it does teach the other kids at Garfield Middle is forbearance because it takes character for them to refrain from regularly ass-kicking the kid. WCPO-TV (Cincinnati)
Comments 'lipstick_boy'
Homeland Security tests mind-reading technology
They tried out the face-recognition software on 140 volunteers in Maryland and claim a 75-80 percent hit rate for ID'ing people who were supposedly trying to be deceptive or thinking dangerous thoughts. Sensors remotely scan a person's temperature, pulse, respiration, and gestures, even to the point (they say) of being able to distinguish ordinary, stressed-out airline passengers from those up to no good. Daily Telegraph (London)
Comments 'mind_reading'
Sheffield (England) Council rubs its forehead on the floor, to the god of political correctness
Ya can't have a funeral in Sheffield on a Saturday unless you're Muslim because all the parlors have to be on standby for those speedy burials required by Islam. One infidel family that had out-of-towners available only on Saturday found out the policy the hard way. Daily Telegraph (London)
Comments 'saturday_funerals'
Gerontological tragedies: Alzheimer's, osteoporosis, brake failure
All of a sudden, an SUV came barreling up the hill at 50 mph (up the hill, not down) on a fairway at Cloverleaf Golf Course near Pittsburgh, stopping only after it had careened into two trees, spun around, and burst into flames. The five seniors aboard were rescued, including the 82-yr-old driver, who insisted that he'd just "lost his brakes." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Comments 'brake_failure'
What a country!
China's space technology is obviously years ahead of the U.S.'s, in that its mission control had the ability, on September 25th, to quote in-flight dialogue among Shenzhou 7 astronauts . . who hadn't even launched yet . . and, according to its official news agency, wouldn't actually have the quoted conversation until September 27th. Associated Press via Yahoo
Comments 'china_astronauts'
Readers' choice
I didn't do a good job with the news yesterday, and some reader contributions piled up. Many thanks to many people for these tips. (1) Kentucky man went in for circumcision, woke up minus his stuff (Doctor: Umm, I happened to see a cancer, and I couldn't imagine you'd want a second opinion, so I sliced it off. You're welcome.) (2) Jose Cruz, 21, arrested for DUI in South Charleston, W.Va., had a "battery" charge tacked on when he allegedly lifted his leg several times and gassed the arresting officer (but the prosecutor said he's only doing the DUI). (3) A Wisconsin man was cited for disorderly conduct for buying a beer for his sons, ages 4 and 2, at the county fair (Bonus: It's not illegal for kids to hoist a few with their parents in Wisconsin). WLKY-TV (Louisville) /// Associated Press via Yahoo /// Post-Crescent (Appleton)
Comments 'readers_080926'
Your Daily Jury Duty
[no fair examining the evidence; verdict must be based on mugshot only]
According to the police, when her live-in boyfriend popped the question, Celeste Lagrant, 39, declined, via a knife-and-fist attack. WTSP-TV (St. Petersburg-Tampa)
Comments 'celeste_lagrant'
Eyewitness News
[news videos goin' around]
I can't find this slide show on a U.S. source, so beware of this, but it says here that recently in Houston (and irrespective of Hurricane Ike), a landlord happened to wander into one of his apartments to discover a new high in disgustingness. I mean, really. Daily Telegraph (Sydney) [click link inside the story for the slide show]
Comments 'houston_apartment'
More Things to Worry About on Friday
A female F State firefighter is being investigated for stealing a traffic-accident victim's foot from the scene (Seriously) . . . . . We've heard of dentists who use their tools to extort overdue bills from patients, but only when the patients return for subsequent treatment, but this German dentist didn't wait; he went to the deadbeat's house and yanked out the dentures . . . . . A Utah mother, driving her Ford Expedition, let her little tykes ride on the running board while she drove slowly around (only this time she went over a speed bump, and one kid's in critical condition) . . . . . Another one of those loco Japanese inventions: a personal, wearable airbag, in case you fall [Ed.: Oh, wait; this is a great invention, as anyone with elderly parents will recognize] . . . . . Update: A Nebraska man abandoned his nine children (ages 1 to 17) at a hospital, under the state's baby-drop-off law (no penalty for parents who give up their infants, except that Nebraska's law applies to all "minors"). Today's Newsrangers: Larry Ellis Reed, Candy Clouston, Emory Kimbrough, Bruce Alter, Mark Svevar, Pete Randall (and a slew of "Readers' Choice" finders)
Comments 'worry_080926'
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