Weird News

[spudcon]

I thought it was open season on ranch owners in Arizona.

[Cicero]

Classic and Shaw...Shake hands and walk away. K?

Or you both will be on report.

[TheMercenary]

Toilet Paper Bandit Sought

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive...427101tp1.html

[lumberjim]

oh shit: ( from the link in merc's post )

Second Craigslist "Group Sex" Bust

Cops: Connecticut man placed phony ad to torment female neighbor

APRIL 22--Meet Philip Conran. In a bid to torment a female neighbor with whom he was fighting, the Connecticut man allegedly placed a phony Craigslist ad directing men seeking "group sex" to the woman's home, police charge. Conran, a 42-year-old chef, today made his initial court appearance in connection with reckless endangerment and harassment counts filed as a result of the fake April 5 online classified. Investigators tied Conran to the Craigslist "casual encounters" posting--which was purportedly placed by a "West Hartford soccer mom" and headlined "looking for lust"--through an analysis of records obtained from Craigslist and AT&T Internet Services, according to an arrest affidavit. When cops tracked an IP address to Conran's home, he confessed to posting the "party sex" ad directing men to next-door neighbor Terry Sharp's Dartmouth Avenue home. Conran, free on $75,000 bond, is the second person to be arrested as a result of the Craigslist posting. Richard Zeh, one of about a dozen men who showed up to answer the ad, was charged with burglary, sexual assault, and trespassing after he groped and made obscene comments to a 18-year-old woman. Zeh, a 29-year-old personal trainer, accosted the woman after mistakenly going to the wrong West Hartford address. Zeh told police that he was "bored" when he decided to answer the Craigslist ad. He acknowledged that the button on his shorts had "fallen off" and that his "pubic hair and his erect penis could have been sticking out of his pants" when he walked into the teenager's residence. (6 pages)

[classicman]

He acknowledged that the button on his shorts had "fallen off" and that his "pubic hair and his erect penis could have been sticking out of his pants" when he walked into the teenager's residence.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA what an ass!

[Sheldonrs]

Originally Posted by classicman

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA what an ass!

It doesn't mention that THAT was showing.

[Cicero]

LOL! What a way to traumatize your neighbor.....Sounds like it turned into quite the side-show circus....

[xoxoxoBruce]

They took away a toddler's cheese sandwich.

Yet the impossible has happened: staff at a nursery in Pemberton, near Wigan, have confiscated a cheese sandwich belonging to a two-year-old pupil, Jack Ormisher. Its failing was to contain neither lettuce nor tomato.

Wigan Council has since confirmed that the straight-up combination of cheese and bread contravenes its healthy eating guidelines — and fully supported the cheese-snatchers. “The centre has a list of recommended healthy food, according to national guidelines, which children are encouraged to eat,” said a spokesman. “A cheese sandwich would not feature on the list.”

Fucking unbelievable.

[Sundae]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Fucking unbelievable.

Fucking untrue...?

But nursery manager Aukje Clegg said: “This is absolutely untrue. That is all I can say. I know what happened. The mother knows what happened. If she wants to make this out of it, that’s her problem but it’s not the truth.”

Asked if children were allowed to eat cheese sandwiches, she said: “Of course they are.”

[jinx]

Well duh, needs mustard, clearly.

[Cicero]

Originally Posted by jinx

Well duh, needs mustard, clearly.

I am dying to know what they replaced the confiscated sandwich with...One of those things I guess I will just never know.....

I am so glad cheese sandwiches are of highest priority for the Wigan Council..... This has to be stopped. It's an outrage!!

[squirell nutkin]

So fucking wrong where do we start?

[Clodfobble]

Meh. It's a private organization, with food rules that were known by the child's mother beforehand. Tons of preschools would confiscate a peanut butter sandwich these days. Or there are other private preschools that don't allow commercial characters on the premises (like Mickey Mouse on t-shirts.) And there was that big brouhaha awhile back, about a Catholic school that kicked out a student because her mother was a stripper and refused to take a different job. Private organizations get to make their own rules, and if you don't like it, you can pick a different one.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

Meh. It's a private organization, with food rules that were known by the child's mother beforehand.

Where do you get private organization from? If so, why is the Wigan council involved?
I still think they could have handled the situation better than snatching a 2 year olds sandwich away from him, take it up with his mother for christ's sake.

[squirell nutkin]

I guess actually reading the link makes for a more informed opinion. I'll have to agree with you in that case.

I'm frequently telling the malcontents at the coop: Don't like the way things run? Join the board or start your own coop.

(But the irony of it all --England making rules about food?)