A 6-year-old Park Slope girl is facing a $300 fine from the city for doing what city kids have been doing for decades: drawing a pretty picture with common sidewalk chalk.Obviously not all of Natalie Shea's 10th Street neighbors thought her blue chalk splotch was her best work - a neighbor called 311 to report […]
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6-Year-Old Girl Facing $300 Fine for Chalk Drawing on Sidewalk
CAGE FIGHTING PROBABLY GAY, SAY DOCTORS
NO holds barred cage fighting can lead to long term gayness and an obsession with thighs, the British Medical Association claimed last night.ImageDennis and Joaquim married in Honolulu last AprilThe BMA is warning that men who are attracted to cage fighting are already gay or at least entertaining the possibility of a gay-based lifestyle.According to […]
Shootings in Cleveland high school leave five injured, gunman killed
A 14-year-old student opened fire in a Cleveland, Ohio high school today, leaving up to five injured. The gunman is reportedly dead, but reports are unclear on whether the wound was self-inflicted.Police were called to the scene at 1:15 p.m. EST, with reports of a gunman in the school. The gunman, described only as a […]
Congress to Probe Youth Boot Camps
(WASHINGTON) — A federal investigator and parents whose children died at youth boot camps urged other families Wednesday to avoid enrolling teens in such programs until there is more oversight of them. "Buyer beware," said Greg Kutz, who led a congressional investigation into the camps. "You really don't know what you're getting." The Government Accountability […]
UK: Genius spends
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Halloween banned because one guy dressed as Hitler
Halloween is banned at a Brooklyn high school - and Hitler's to blame.A year after Walter Petryk, 17, came to school in a fuhrer-style mustache and Nazi uniform, Leon M. Goldstein HS for the Sciences sent home a letter on Thursday banning Halloween costumes - and Petryk is peeved.Petryk - a senior who has already […]
UK: 17-year-old student arrested for possessing a copy of the "Anarchists' Cookbook"
A British teenager who is accused of possessing material for terrorist purposes has appeared in court.The 17-year-old, who was arrested in the Dewsbury area of West Yorkshire on Monday, was given bail after a hearing at Westminster Magistrates' Court.It is alleged he had a copy of the "Anarchists' Cookbook", containing instructions on how to make […]
High School Teacher Makes Parents do the Same Homework as their Child
The parents of Damion Frye's ninth-grade students are spending their evenings this fall doing something they thought they had left behind long ago: homework.So far, Mr. Frye, an English teacher at Montclair High School, has asked the parents to read and comment on a Franz Kafka story, Section 1 of Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" […]
10-yr-old commits suicide after parental ban on computer games
A 10-year-old school boy committed suicide by jumping from his 19th floor apartment here after his parents banned him from playing computer games.Andrei Smirnov, a class three student, jumped to his death yesterday after receiving the wrath of his parents due to bad conduct in school and a poor performance in studies.The boy's class teacher […]
Student's wrist broken for dropping cake
School security guards in Palmdale, CA have been caught on camera assaulting a 16-year-old girl and breaking her arm after she spilled some cake during lunch and left some crumbs on the floor after cleaning it up.The incident occurred last week at Knight High School in Palmdale and was caught on a cell phone camera […]
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