http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071002/...st/odd_no_hugs

If you need a hug, you won't get it at Percy Julian Middle School. Principal Victoria Sharts banned hugging among the suburban Chicago school's 860 students anywhere inside the building. She said students were forming "hug lines" that made them late for classes and crowded the hallways.

"Hugging is really more appropriate for airports or for family reunions than passing and seeing each other every few minutes in the halls," Sharts said.

Another reason to institute the no-hugging policy was that some hugs could be too long and too close, she said.

"There is another side to the issue when a hug is either unwanted or becomes inappropriate as judged by one of the students involved," Sharts wrote in a statement to parents. "On occasion, we do deal with those incidents. The goal is always to promote safe and orderly hallways where everybody can get by, be safe, and be on time."

What.the.hayle? Is it really that serious?

Woman Told to Ditch Bra to Enter Court

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho — Security guards refused to allow a woman into a federal courthouse until she removed a bra that triggered a metal detector.


Lori Plato said she and her husband, Owen Plato, were stunned when U.S. Marshals Service employees asked her to remove her bra after the underwire supports set off the alarm.

What tha heeeeezie foe sheeeeezie????

Are you telling me no one had access to the big wand-looking thing you see in movies and TV shows? Come on!

Dad threw 4 tots off bridge for revenge, police say
 

BAYOU LA BATRE, Alabama (AP) -- Authorities searched Wednesday for the bodies of four children believed to have been thrown off a bridge by their father.

Lam Luong, 37, of Irvington confessed Tuesday night to driving to the Dauphin Island bridge, stopping and tossing the youngsters off the span, which is as high as 80 feet above the water in places, Detective Scott Riva said.

Missing and presumed dead were 4-month-old Danny Luong; 1-year-old Lindsey Luong; 2-year-old Hannah Luong; and 3-year-old Ryan Phan. Phan is not the man's biological child, but Luong raised him from infancy, authorities said.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/01/09/....ap/index.html

^^^WTF!?!!? That is the most awful crap ever! I hope the fire up Big Yellow Mama (AL electric chair) for him.

Is that guy good enough for the electric chair? I think taking him apart, skin cell by skin cell, would be more appropriate.:mad:

Katrina victim seeks 3 quadrillion dollars for suffering.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080109/...flood_lawsuits

*snarf*

Riiiiiigggghht. Oh and AlphaFrog, I'm going to second that *snarf*. If they are trying to prove a point they could have done it in some other way.

18 7th Graders Attack Teacher in Cleveland, OH
 

Don't make no type of sense.

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ETA: The article makes the incident less severe than CNN made it out to be. Still wrong though.

:mad: WTF is wrong with people? And if that wasn't bad enough, did you see the next story about the baby being THROWN out of a moving car!!!???:mad:

Umm hell naw. :(:mad: