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BOULDER – One Boulder middle school has instituted a ban on PDAs. Not on Palm Pilots and other handheld devices, but public displays of affection. Centennial Middle School administration says there is too much hugging going on and it’s gotten out of control. The students are not happy about it. “I mean, how are you supposed to say ‘bye’ to your girlfriend?” Centennial Middle School eighth-grader Noah Hahn asked the Boulder Daily Camera. The school has officially banned hugs in the hallways. Students say administrators have asked them to high-five instead. Centennial Assistant Principal Becky Escamilla said teachers were concerned about some students’ behavior and asked for an official policy on in-school affection. No students have been punished under the new rule and it is unclear what the punishments would be. Most schools have rules about showing affection, according to Ellen Miller-Brown, the Boulder Valley School District’s middle-level director. Some Centennial students have started a petition called “hugs not drugs” asking the school to strike down the ban. For now students will have to follow the age old adage of keeping their hands to themselves.

Man, what kinds of morons are running our schools? First they bitch about violence and then they bitch about people being affectionate. I guess we should all just be mental robots so no one ever gets hurt or offended or anything and we should just live in some lame moronic utopia so everyone can be sterilized of any bit of humanity they have left in them? Isn’t that what we’re headed for if idiots like this continue to be allowed to pull this crap? I got a high five for them. I’ll give ‘em five across their lips Fred Sandford style. Idiots.

Around 1 a.m. Thursday the owner of Lewis Country Store, located on Ashland City Highway, and two employees were doing inventory in the store when they heard a brick crash through a window of the store. The owner, Brad Lewis, told police the man who threw the brick approached him with his hands in his pockets and demanded money. Lewis pulled a handgun, police said, and shot the robber twice before the robber fled. The man police arrested was found across the street, collapsed in front of a gas station. The suspect was shot in an arm and a leg and was expected to recover, police said. Police said they didn’t find a weapon on the suspect.

Jeez, that’s even worse than bringing a knife to a gunfight. I’ll bet that aside from the arm wound and the leg wound, they found a stinky little surprise in his drawers as well. Idiot.

Pamela Bernhardt was close to completing renovations on a house she owned and hoped to sell. She had installed a new roof, new granite tops in the kitchen and new tiles in the bathroom. Earlier this month, she arrived at the house on the 14200 block of Swallowfield in southwest Houston and found a small, yellow note stuck to the front door. The handwritten note said that the house had been sold at a foreclosure sale seven months earlier. The local homeowners association had sold the house, valued at about $250,000, saying Bernhardt failed to pay a $420 assessment fee. “It was so devastating,” Bernhardt said. “I was just stunned.” Bernhardt’s situation was another example of the excessive power of homeowners associations and the need to reform the use of foreclosure sales to collect fees, state leaders and activists said Wednesday. A lawyer for the Briarhills Homeowners Association, which foreclosed on the house, said sufficient protection is on the books for homeowners and that Bernhardt was given ample opportunities to pay the debt. Bernhardt has filed suit, claiming she never received notices alerting her to the delinquent fees. She is asking for her house back. “I was never sent any notices,” the 52-year-old real estate agent said. “I would have paid the $420, before spending about $48,000 on renovations.” Terry Sears, a lawyer for Briarhills, said notices were sent to Bernhardt by certified mail and that after the sale she had 180 days to buy her home back. “She could have bought her home back for the amount of the past due assessment,” he said. “It’s unfortunate she did not respond to any of the notices.” Had the dispute been mediated in court, Bernhardt would not have lost her home, said state Sen. Jon Lindsay. Some foreclosures can be enacted without going before a judge, Lindsay said. “I want to see judicial foreclosures,” said Lindsay, R-Houston. “A judge should be looking over the shoulder of this process.” Lindsay said he would address the concern during the current session. The deadline for introducing new bills has passed, but he could still amend a pre-existing proposal, Lindsay said. The push to curtail homeowners associations gained momentum after 83-year-old widow Wenonah Blevins lost her Houston home in 2001 when she failed to pay $814.50 in association dues. Blevins eventually got her home back, and public outrage galvanized state leaders to install protections that included the 180-day period in which a property owner could repurchase their home after a foreclosure. But more needs to be done, according to Robert A. Axelrad, Bernhardt’s lawyer. “There are no safeguards with non-judicial foreclosures,” he said. “You are talking about such a relatively small amount of money. The question is whether people should be allowed to take away people’s homes without the safeguard associated with the judicial process.” The practice of homeowners associations threatening foreclosure has become much too common, said David Kahne, a lawyer who has represented homeowners against foreclosure. He estimates that 1,000 lawsuits are filed each year in Harris County by homeowners associations seeking foreclosures.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Homeowners associations should be made illegal. There’s no excuse in the world for anything like this to happen. This is like someone who you owe 25 bucks to coming to steal your car so they can sell it and get their money. If someone did that, they’d get arrested and thrown in jail. Why aren’t these asshats getting the same treatment? It’s ridiculous. So I say outlaw these ridiculous associations that exist for no other reason than to dominate homeowners and screw over their privacy and private property rights. I’ll tell you something else too. If anyone ever tried to pull that on me, there’d be no place they could hide, because at that point, I’d have nothing left to lose.

On Thursday 21 April at 12.23am Police were called to a West Bay, Hell address where an 18-year-old Caymanian man had sustained a gunshot wound to his leg. On arrival police discovered that the man had caused his own injury by accidentally discharging a firearm into his genitalia. The victim is receiving treatment in the Intensive Care unit.

You know, there are certain places that you NEVER point a gun at yourself. That’s #1 on the list. I’m assuming the idiot stuck the gun in his waistband and it went off. Here’s a thought… GET A HOLSTER! It’s a lot safer. Idiot.

Doctors found about 50 fly larvae inside the ears of an 84-year-old man after he complained about his ears itching. Dr Somsak Nonthasri, deputy director of Vachira Phuket Hospital, said Anan Temtan had scratched his ears with cotton buds so hard that the eardrums ruptured and bled. Anan’s relatives rushed him to the hospital at noon yesterday upon seeing the blood. Somsak said a doctor checked Anan’s ears with a scope and found the larvae inside. “We believe flies might have gone inside his ears to lay eggs, which hatched into larvae, causing the itching,” Somsak. Somsak said Anan would be under doctors’ observation for a while to make sure that no more fly eggs remained in his ears. A doctor had to use tweezers to take out some of the maggots before resorting to a tool to suck the remaining maggots out. Anan’s granddaughter, Wimolrat Temtan, 19, said Anan had recently helped clean up a market in the neighbourhood. Anan said he felt itchy inside his ears four days ago but thought it was normal. “But the itching became severe Monday night and I tried to clean my ears with cotton buds and noticed something came out,” Anan said. “This morning, I felt more itching so I scratched with cotton buds again until my ears bled.” Somsak said he was surprised that Anan did not come to see a doctor sooner. Most people with something inside their ear canals would not be able to stand it very long, he said.

Man, this was so messed up, I just HAD to put it here for you all to enjoy. I don’t know if it said it in there, but this happened in Phuket, Thailand. Remind me to never go there.

FRESNO, Calif. An attempt to steal some items inside a car didn’t work out very well for this car burglar.
A security guard in Fresno called police when he heard a banging noise coming from the inside of a trunk early Sunday morning. When authorities arrived, they expected to find a victim locked inside the trunk. Instead they found what a spokesman for the Fresno County Sheriff’s Department describes as — quote — “the dumbest criminal of the day.” Apparently the clumsy burglar popped the lock on the trunk, crawled inside and ransacked its contents. But when he tried to heave himself out, he closed the trunk on top of him. The suspect was taken to a hospital to be treated for cuts he suffered during his futile burglary attempt. He was then booked on two counts of theft. Police did not release the name of the suspect.

I guess my big question is, why did he feel the need to crawl in the damn trunk to get the stuff out? Most people just lean over and reach in. What a freakin’ moron.

STATESBORO, GA (AP) Sgt. Jason Kearney sat in his marked patrol car Thursday, waiting for his colleagues to join him for lunch when Ron Stone asked him for a ride. The Bulloch County deputy agreed to take Stone to his car, but first he insisted on searching Stone for weapons, said Sheriff Lynn Anderson. “Stone told Sergeant Kearney to go ahead,” Anderson said. But instead of packing a pistol, the 30-year-old Stone was packing pot — two small bags, Anderson said. Stone told the uniformed officer he had spent the night at a friend’s house and the marijuana was not his, police said. Instead of a ride to his car, Stone got a ride to the Bulloch County Jail, where police later learned he was wanted in another county on an outstanding warrant for marijuana possession with intent to distribute.

No need to comment on this one. It speaks for itself. Moron.

A Williamsville East High School student was arrested Wednesday night in connection with the theft of 300 Oxycontin pain pills from the pharmacy where she worked. Amherst police filed four felony drug charges against Rachel A. Lewis, 17, of Via Foresta Lane, Amherst, describing her as the subject of an ongoing investigation into the sale of prescription pain pills to students in the town. Lewis was arrested at about 9 p.m. outside the Rite Aid drugstore at 1640 Hopkins Road, where she had worked as a clerk. “She’d stolen 300 Oxycontin pills last night, and we have reason to believe she may have been involved in other thefts of Oxycontin and Hydrocodone pills,” a police spokesman said. “There have been other thefts at the store, and she had access to the pharmacy area.” Detective Ted DiNoto and Detective Lt. Joseph LaCorte have been working on the case with the store’s owners and pharmacists. Police say they believe some of the pills were sold to students at Williamsville East and others to other young people in the area. Lewis faces felony charges of criminal possession of narcotics, possession with intent to sell and two grand larceny counts.

First off, how the hell does a 17 year old get a job in a pharmacy? Secondly, she’s a moron for not even assuming that they keep track of the meds, and thirdly…the pharmacy people are morons for hiring her in the first place. These people are the ones dispensing your drugs. Kinda makes ya worry, don’t it?

This isn’t just another love story gone sour. Kuttiyamma underwent a sex change to become ‘Binu’ in the hope of marrying her lover. But now, her lover has refused to marry her. A jilted Binu has sought police help. Kuttiyamma, 29, a rubber-tapping worker, and her relative, Laura, 25, had been in love for the last 15 years. When they realized they were inseparable, Kuttiyamma, who was born with inter-sex features, decided to go in for ‘sex deformity correctional’ surgery. After a treatment spread over 18 months, Kuttiyamma underwent an operation at Kochi’s PVS hospital last month. That’s how Kuttiyamma became Binu. Binu then approached his lover to talk about their wedding plans, only to be told that his lover was already engaged to another man. In his petition to the Kottayam superintendent of police, Binu has complained that Laura had agreed to Binu’s decision to go in for a sex change, for which he spent Rs 50,000. “It is a breach of trust. She had agreed to marry me after the surgery. I took loans to pay the hospital bills,” Binu has said in his petition. The Kottayam police are clueless. “Binu’s lover told us she wanted to marry a normal man. Even after the operation, Laura isn’t willing to consider Binu a normal man. We can’t do anything. So we warned Binu not to create problems for her,” Pala DSP K. Nirmalan told HT. Apparently, the man who was engaged to Laura backed out once Binu told him about their relationship. Dr George P. Abraham, who operated on Binu, said his was a strange case. “Binu belonged to an inter-sex group with both male and female genitals. We counselled him about the difficulties he would face after surgery,” he said. Binu is undeterred. He plans to move court to teach his ditching lover a lesson.

Jeez, even if you can manage to follow this whole saga without your eyes crossing, you gotta admit, this is pretty high on the “messed up” scale. Sheesh!

April 24, 2005 — A Brooklyn man turned a traffic ticket into four felony charges last night by trying to use $100 to bribe a cop who had pulled him over for running a red light in lower Manhattan, police sources said. The quick-thinking officer, realizing the he would need witnesses to prove a bribe attempt, responded to Holiam Clement Ho’s offer by saying that two fellow officers wanted in on the action, cop sources said. Ho hand the trio of officers $100 each, cops said. But instead of a free ride, Ho got a ride to jail. At the station house, Ho admitted he offered the money, police sources said. But he apparently didn’t learn a lesson from the ordeal: He offered yet another $100 bribe to the police inspector who was questioning him, cop sources said. Ho faces up to seven years in jail on four counts of bribery.

This was obviously stupid. I mean, these aren’t Mexican cops you’re dealing with here. So the guy’s a moron for trying to spend more on paying off cops than he would have for the traffic ticket, but what’s really moronic here is that he could go to jail for 7 years for this. This is penny ante crap and totally not worth a 7 year prison sentence. That’s just ridiculous.