Not all stories have been checked for urban legend status or not. Remember, this page is nearly four years old, so, grain of salt (03/27/04)
SEATTLE - The failing grade will be eliminated in Seattle public high schools in n effort to improve grading fairness and reduce the number of students not meeting tough new graduation requirements.
Beginning this fall, students will instead receive a no-credit grade that will allow them to retake a course with no reduction in their grade-point average.
The change in policy was announced yesterday at a Seattle School Board meeting.
Superintendent Joseph Olchefske supported the change, saying it will make grading equitable.
Teachers have inconsistently awarded an E, a failing grade, or an N, indicating no credit, when a student fails a class, he said. Neither gives credit for a course, but the E factors a zero into a GPA, while the N does not affect it.
Assigning an E gives "two penalties for failure," Olchefske said, pointing out that students who receive an E grade receive no credit and a deflated GPA.
More than one-quarter of Seattle schools' Class of 2001 could fail to graduate because their GPA is below the 2.0, or C, average, a recent district analysis shows.
That means they won't graduate, according to standards adopted by the board in 1997.
For the first time, students graduating next year will need to have read and comprehended a minimum of 20 books over four years, completed a senior research paper, performed community service and have a 2.0 GPA overall and in core subjects.
"How do you a fail a course . . . just by not grasping the content?" Preston asked.
Rimmer emphasized that because education in Seattle schools is standards based, students would still need to demonstrate proficiency in core subjects to graduate.
Changing the grading policy would not lessen or eliminate that requirement, but give students more time and another chance to take a class that perhaps they were not ready for, she said.
Schools and teachers have also been inconsistent in replacing failed grades with passing grades when a student successfully repeats a course, Rimmer said. Transcripts will be scrutinized to catch these situations and the grades changed, also potentially raising averages.
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The children began hallucinating after drinking the liquid, saying phrases like "see the frogs" and "see the presents." They were hospitalized for several days.
The boys' father, Thierry Cassagnol, surrendered to authorities Monday.
Cassagnol, 42, boiled some angel's trumpet plant and mixed the broth with red Kool-Aid at his Sarasota home, police said. The 15-year-old baby sitter apparently found the concoction in the refrigerator and gave it to the two boys, ages 3 and 5, on August 15.
Authorities say Cassagnol endangered his sons by leaving the drink in the refrigerator in a 12-ounce water bottle, near containers of soda, juice and water. He admitted making the concoction, according to an arrest report.
Angels' trumpet is a hallucinogenic and poisonous herb that can grow up to 5 feet tall. Possession is not illegal, but charges can be filed if it is used to create a drug or if children are endangered.
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"I was troubled ... because of what it implied about the Dodger organization," team president Bob Graziano said.
"It means a lot to me that you are Dodger fans," he said to Danielle Goldey and Meredith Kott. "We will continue to do the right thing."
The two were escorted out of the ballpark on Aug. 8. Goldey and Kott say they initially were not told why they were being ejected, but later they were told that someone complained and said children should not be exposed to "those people."
The couple said their companions, a heterosexual couple, also kissed but were not ejected. Because of this, they felt the action of the eight security guards was discrimination.
In addition to the public apology, the Dodgers donated 5,000 tickets to three gay and lesbian organizations and promised sensitivity training for their employees.
"I think they stepped up to the plate more than they had to," Goldey said. "All we wanted was an apology ... I'm very proud to be a Dodger fan."
"I'm extremely happy with the results," Kott said.
The couple had planned to file a civil-rights lawsuit if the Dodgers had not apologized, according to their lawyer, Bernie Bernheim.
He said he first thought the Dodgers might have a policy against gay and lesbian couples showing affection in the ballpark. "I'm frankly shocked," Bernheim said. "Their response is atypical and outstanding."
He said the Dodgers have done more to make amends than any other corporation he's dealt with. Goldey and Kott have been invited to sit behind home plate to make up for the game they missed.
"It is not trivial to be thrown out of a public place based of who you are," said Jon Davidson of the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, a gay advocacy group. "This result is a home run for all concerned."
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GOLDEN, Co. -- An employee of Coors Brewing Co. flipped the wrong switch and sent 77,500 gallons of beer into a creek, killing thousands of fish and prompting health warnings.
The beer, which was in fermenting tanks, washed through a wastewater treatement plant before ending up in Clear Creek on Friday, said Coors spokeswoman Aimee St. Clair. The fish likely suffocated from the alcohol-- among other things-- produced in the tanks.
"Somebody made a mistake"(DUH!) she said. We're trying to track down how it happened so it doesn't happen again."
The Colorado Department of Public Health advised residents to avoid contact with the creek south of the brewery because of a small bacterial risk. The water could cause illness if consumed, said J. David Holm, director of the Water Quality Division.
Officials within the state Division of Wildlife could not give a precise number of fish killed but estimated it was thousands up and down the river.
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Jamon Franklin, 31, was found dead of an apparent suicide in a car in the garage of the family’s home.
"I don’t know why he did it," said Les Franklin, founder of Shaka Franklin Foundation for Youth. "I’m really confused because I’ve tried so hard.
"I know I’ve helped a lot of young people, but if you can’t help your family, if you can’t help yourself, then what’s the use?"
Les Franklin and wife Marianne returned home from breakfast and found Jamon dead in the back seat of the car. He apparently suffered carbon monoxide poisoning.
No suicide note was found.
Jamon Franklin headed a program that teaches inner-city black children how to skate and play hockey. He had graduated this summer from Morehouse University in Atlanta.
Franklin's son Shaka, a high school football star, committed suicide in 1990 at age 16.
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"We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, but we have witnessed a number of injuries as a result of blankets being used as trampolines at concerts," said Pearl Jam manager Kelly Curtis. "Small beach towels and ponchos will be allowed."(yay for ponchos)
Pearl Jam's sold-out concert at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center also features Sonic Youth.
Earlier this year, the company that manages the center's outdoor rock shows forbade blankets, but back down after a public outcry.(I want my blanky!!
The band requested the precautionary blanket ban two months after nine fans died in a frenzied crush during a Pearl Jam (Please Retire) concert in Denmark.
After Pearl Jam's 1992 show at the Saratoga center, metal barriers were installed to prevent stage rushes. Michael Bolton performed the following month, and the barriers were taken down temporarily
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BERLIN - A study has found that the standard European Union size of condom is often too big for German mean, a magazine reported.
Focus magazine said a study by leading German condom manufacturer Condomi, Inc. found standard-sized condoms falling off more than half of the men studied.
"The average German penis is about 3.5 to 4 millimeters (about 1/8th of an inch) too narrow for the standard EN 600 condom," the magazine wrote.
The European Union set the EN 600 guidelines for rubber condoms in 1996 to establish a uniform standard across Europe.
Officer Margo Grady was instructed to bring a child and mother from Thomas Jefferson University Hospital to the Special Victims Unit in the city's Bridesburg section after the child reported a sexual assault Saturday. (Go, female work force!)
At about 9:50 p.m., Grady's marked vehicle disappeared into New Jersey, not to return to Philadelphia until sometime before 2 a.m.
City police searched frantically, enlisting the help of a police helicopter, while Grady and her passengers were missing.
Somewhere around Newark Airport, the officer turned on her overhead emergency lights and sounded her siren at a New Jersey trooper, pulling him to the side of the road to ask for directions.
In a memo to commanders, Grady, who has been on the force almost four years, said the New Jersey trooper "pointed me in the right direction and he wished me good luck."
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TRUMBULL, Conn. (AP) -- High school wrestling can be essentially a form of controlled hazing. The grueling practices, the struggle to meet a target body weight and the exhausting regimen of stair-climbing and weightlifting weed out the weak and the undisciplined.
But a group of Trumbull High School wrestlers are accused of taking things much too far.
A 15-year-old Trumbull wrestler was allegedly hogtied, pushed into a wall, stuffed inside a locker and held down while teammates forced the handle of a plastic knife into his rectum.
Eight members of the 15-member team have been arrested -- three of them as adults on assault and conspiracy charges that could bring them, in some cases, more than five years in prison.
Hillary Bargar, one of the prosecutors who is handling the cases against the wrestlers charged as juveniles, said "hazing" is an inadequate description of the attacks.
"You should call it what it is, and that would be a pattern of assault and harassment," she said. "This is not cute. This is not 'boys will be boys."'
Prosecutors won't say what they believe the motive was. The boy told police that after joining the team in December, he and two other new wrestlers were repeatedly hazed. The names of the victims have not been released.
The two other boys were allegedly hogtied with trainer's tape. One was thrown into the shower, while the other was covered in garbage, the 15-year-old told police.
The 15-year-old boy's parents complained to school officials and police on Feb. 2, a day after his right knee was severely injured when he was allegedly thrown against a wall by his teammates.
The allegations shocked students and parents. Several students said they thought hazing was limited to childish locker room pranks, not insertion of objects into the rectum.
"A lot of people are upset about it," said Dennis Mirochnik, a sophomore. "It's sad. It was something that should not have been done."
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Edward R. Collins, 20, is free on $80,000 bond today, awaiting his next court date for a host of drug possession charges related to what authorities said appeared to be a routine drug deal.
But when Trenton police stopped Collins, they found an unusual lode -- "a decent-size baggie of very pretty mint-green crack" with a street value of about $2,500, police spokesman Detective Jim Dellaira said.
The drug typically ranges in hue from white to pale yellow.
"It's a week before St. Patrick's Day, we find green crack. I've never seen anything like it."
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Joseph Edward Nichols, 29, of Pine Hills was arrested sunday night by a team of investigators from the Ocoee Police Department, Orlando Police Department, and the Orange County (Fla.) Sheriff's Office, police said.
"It looks like he expected to be arrested," said Ocoee Detective Bernard Williams. "We're very glad to have tracked him down and have him in custody."
Nichols was charged with lewd or lascivious acts with a child for a series of attacks over the past year in which he would allegedly steal a water gun from a discount department store, load it with his semen and then douse young girls with it.
Police had been feverishly searching for the suspect over the past few weeks because the attacks had been escalating in frequency, Williams said.
The FBI Behavioral Science Unit was brought in to assist in the investigation, he said
Police said they were trying to find the suspect quickly, because the FBI believed the attacks would increase in number and possibly escalate violently.
In the last attack a little over a week ago, the suspect brazenly approached a young girl at an Orlando-area K-Mart. He asked her to open her mouth, and when she refused, he sprayed her in the face with a squirt gun and took her picture, according to police reports.
Nichols is the suspect in 11 attacks since last year on young girls who are alone in discount department stores, according to police reports.
If convicted of the crimes charged, Nichols faces up to 15 years in state prison
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Before dawn Monday, two men dislodged a Mr. Potato Head from its bolted perch downtown, police said. They left a note. "Don't worry," it said, "you'll get it back." They stuffed the 136 pounds of fiberglass into a U-Haul and drove away.
Police and state tourism officials scrambled. By late afternoon, however, the two abductors had outwitted authorities a second time. Wearing hoods, police said, they left Mr. Potato Head in the middle of Brown University's campus.
Detectives suspect graduating seniors at Brown University were responsible. "I don't think they realize what it was worth and what they were stealing," police Maj. Martin F. Hames said. "Even though this was a prank, you still can't tolerate it."
Much political capital, not to mention private money, has been invested in placing the smiling sculptures around the state. On March 23, Gov. Lincoln C. Almond announced their introduction, swearing in the "family tourism ambassadors."
"Rhode Island will peel ahead of the crop when it comes to attracting visitors from around the world," Almond declared. Editor's note: Ma ha! ha ha! ha!
But the authorities are not laughing. The Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation, the state's tourism agency that developed the Mr. Potato Head campaign, plans to file a criminal complaint in an attempt to mash such conduct.
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Micah Sheehan, 37, was caught using the sexual device during one of his mandatory twice-weekly urine tests two weeks ago, said Bexar County Probation Director Caesar Garcia.
A probation department technician who was watching Sheehan provide the urine sample realized something was wrong because the bleached-pink fake penis was a different color than Sheehan's skin, Garcia said. Also, the urine was discharging from all different angles like water shooting from a sprinkler, he said.
Garcia says Sheehan's plot was obvious.
Sheehan had an 8-inch penis in his hand with urine being squeezed out of it. He fumbled with it, and it fell out of his shorts; he caught it before it hit the ground. Also, the urine, which was not Sheehan's, was cold because it had been in a refrigerator.
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Police arrested Brian P. Nettles, 32, of Davis Bayou, Miss.; Justin W. Ahlin, 39, of Alpine, Idaho; Shane J. Sellers, 25, of Linekiln, La.; Hatanaka Keisuke, 22, of Japan; Peter Seabridge, 33, of Japan; and Kevin Chancey, 31, of Key West, on charges of criminal mischief and disorderly conduct, said Cynthia Edwards, spokeswoman for the Key West Police Department.
The incident occurred in the early morning hours on Saturday in the Duval Street area, home to many bars and restaurants. Officer Pablo Rodriguez was working an off-duty overtime detail at the Rum Runners bar when several passers-by told him a group of men were jumping on and defacing a local police vehicle parked nearby, according to police reports.
"I saw six guys screaming and yelling on top of a police car, naked, taking pictures, and I called the police," store owner Teo Gonzalez said in a police statement.
At that point, Rodriguez called for assistance, and when he arrived at the scene, he found a large group of men "naked, jumping and urinating" on his cruiser, according to police reports. He arrested the six with the assistance of backup officers.
The men told police they were taking photos for a Japanese Web site, Edwards said. The name and nature of the site could not be determined.
The damage to the cruiser is estimated at $300.
The group was booked into the Monroe County Jail on Stock Island and released on $490 bond, according to jail records. They will face a judge in late March on the misdemeanor charges.
The camera and film the men used was confiscated and seized by the police and put into evidence, Edwards said.
None of the suspects could be reached for comment.
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Some 20,000 copies of the May 21 Sunday Times went out with "Deaths and Funerals" printed on the Alaska Air ad, as well as "Paid Notices" in smaller type, apparently the result of a grievous mishap in the composing room, the newspaper said.
"We are very sorry that this happened," said Mason Sizemore, president of Seattle Times Co., in a statement.
The headline, tacked with others above the pages during final preparation, probably fell on to the ad before the finished page was sent to the press, which happens periodically, the paper said.
The paper stopped the presses after printing about 50,000 copies of its Sunday run of 500,000 but failed to retrieve and destroy all of them before delivery.
Sizemore said the paper had not ruled out a deliberate prank by a staff member, but said no evidence pointed to such an act.
The error appeared two days after an Alaska Airlines baggage handler died when he was pinned between a baggage cart and a jetliner at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
Alaska Airlines already were unhappy about news reports on investigations into the carrier's maintenance operations following the crash in which all 88 aboard died off the California coast Jan. 31.
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Five male Tucson police officers have been suspended because they posed for a gag photo wearing nothing but boots on their feet and helmets over their private parts. The sixth man in the picture, a sergeant, has been demoted. He set up the photo as a surprise for a female colleague.
The Tucson Police Department declined to make any statement other than to confirm the punishments. But a lawyer for the officers said they did not deserve to be suspended.
"The whole thing was done in jest; it was delivered in jest and was received in jest," said Michael Piccarreta, who represents the Tucson Police Officers Association. "Everybody who was involved thought it was pretty funny, and it was."
The six police in the photo posed for the picture at a warehouse before Christmas last year, Piccarreta said. One officer wore a Santa Claus hat on his head.
They were inspired by The Full Monty, the 1997 British film about a group of blue-collar workers who become male strippers. In one scene, they strip down to their strategically placed hats.
"It was an innocuous joke," Piccarreta said. "The photo was G- or PG-rated. Nothing obscene or pornographic or dirty was shown. You could see more if you go down to the beach."
A sergeant presented the photo to a female co-worker as part of a gift exchange, Piccarreta said. "She thought it was hilarious." But the Tucson Police Department was not amused.
Last week, they all received 20-hour suspensions for posing for the photograph.
Sgt. Lee McNitt, who dreamed up the photo idea, was demoted to the position of police officer. He also was implicated in other incidents, including allowing unauthorized civilian ride-alongs and allowing an unauthorized person to drive a police vehicle.
Piccarreta said McNitt had allowed a 13-year-old girl to drive a police car in a shopping mall parking lot.
According to Piccarreta, the punishments for the officers are final, but McNitt can and will appeal his demotion.
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The California-based online auction site immediately pulled Michael Toney's offer upon learning of it, eBay spokesman Kevin Pursglove said. No one bid during the several hours the seats to Toney's execution were posted. His death has not yet been scheduled.
An unidentified woman who was a prosecution witness at Toney's trial last year apparently placed the offer on eBay for him, Pursglove said. Bidding was to begin at $100 per seat, he said.
Texas death row inmates are not allowed access to the Internet, state Department of Criminal Justice spokesman Glen Castlebury said.
"The man is incarcerated on death row," Castlebury said. "He does not have the opportunity -- nor the right -- to be doing anything. He cannot sell Popsicles on the street. This man has no rights in the free world, period, end of story."
Prisoners sentenced to death are allowed five witnesses at their executions, but they must be relatives, close friends or spiritual advisers, he said.
Even Toney's attorney, Robert Ford, was critical of the inmate's attempt to sell seats at his execution.
"This makes him, quite frankly, look like an idiot," Ford said. "I just hate to have clients do things like this," Ford said. "I think, particularly in a capital case, the best thing you can do is stay quiet and not bring attention to yourself."
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The letter had nothing to do with politics, and its author, Anya Provorova, certainly meant no disrespect. It was just that when the six graduating students of the little school in the hamlet of Vorobyovo felt something was lacking, they fell back upon centuries of Russian tradition and decided to send a request for help all the way to the Kremlin.
All they wanted was a video camera so they could record their graduation - and it seemed worth a try.
It couldn't hurt to ask, could it? It could and it did.
The problem was this: it seems that in her salutation to "The Esteemed Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin", the President of Russia, Ms Provorova neglected to finish the phrase with an exclamation point. Further down, she used the Russian word for "you," referring to the President, without capitalizing it.
The letter, besmirched by these insulting errors, rocketed back from the Kremlin to the district capital of Vologda, and from Vologda to the regional centre of Sokol, and from Sokol to the village of Vorobyovo.
And on graduation day in Vorobyovo, Anya Provorova, 17, learned that her final grades had been lowered and that she would not be receiving the silver medal she had been expecting.
Ms Provorova had hoped to go to medical school. Now she is headed to the local dairy institute. "I don't think it's fair, especially because the medal commission had already confirmed my marks," she said.
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Aaron Christopher Jarva, 24, was rushed to Itasca Medical Center by Meds 1 after a tarantula bit Jarva's penis.
According to the Itasca County Sheriff's report Jarva allegedly admitted to taking two ounces of crystal methamphetamines during a 48-hour period before the large hairy spider was placed on his private part. The incident remains under active investigation by the Itasca County Sheriff's Department.
If a person gets bitten by a tarantula, the bite will probably feel a lot like a bee sting, with pain in the area of the bite. It will look like a bee sting, with redness and some swelling.
Because the tarantula's venom is weak, it's unusual to have more severe reaction involving other parts of the body.
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"It's Not a Choice. It's the Way We're Built," read the ad posters on bus stops around Dupont Circle. What are they talking about? The car? All-wheel drive? Or, just possibly, could the slogan be commenting on the nature of homosexuality?
It depends on who's looking. "It's apparent to gay people that we're talking about being gay, but straight people don't know what's going on," said Paul Poux, founder of Poux Co., one of the campaign's developers.
Gays are not only tuned in, but their wallets are also turned out. Subaru has been so successful at attracting gay customers that some drivers consider themselves members of a "club," in which fellow Subaru owners share an implied message behind their cars' brand. "I'm never surprised when I look across a lane of traffic and see a woman in a Subaru and think she might be gay," said Kim Mills, who cruises in a Subaru Impreza.
For the past six years, Subaru advertising has targeted gays, partially through its support of the Rainbow Card program, a Visa card that generates money to support AIDS research and other gay-related causes. British Airways and Citibank also participate in the program.
While advertisements directed at gay men are nothing new, Subaru may be one of the first companies to have attracted a strong lesbian customer base.
Coincidentally or not, the Subaru-lesbian connection seems to have spread throughout the car-buying lesbian community. "We call [Subarus] Lesbarus," said Pam Derderian, CEO and principal partner of Do Tell Inc., a gay niche marketing firm that created the Rainbow Card program.
And even though Subaru has enlisted tennis great and lesbian activist Martina Navratilova as a spokeswoman, the company said its advertising message does not restrict itself to the gay community. According to Bennett, the message is open to interpretation. "It depends on what you read into it. It's definitely a play on words and is effective," he said.
Because gay people may be more attuned to messages directed at them, vague posters may attract the gay community while avoiding the alienation that can come with more obvious images, such as showing two men holding hands. When Budweiser ran such an ad in gay-oriented publications last year, it was attacked as anti-family by conservative groups.
Poux called Subaru's approach more creative. In addition to the lesbian connotation, and even more discreet than word choice, the car in Subaru's poster campaign is stacked with two bicycles--both of them men's bikes.
Subaru has a lot to gain from the loyalty of gay men and lesbians. "This is a sound business decision for Subaru," Derderian said. "Don't kid yourself, we have tracking lists that show how many cars are bought through our [Rainbow Card] program. Thousands and thousands of cars."
In this particular Subaru ad, the concept that homosexuality is not a choice but inherent in one's biology is a "middle-of-the-road argument," Chasin said. The more progressive message would be to suggest that homosexuality "is a choice, and a damn good choice at that," she said.
Some viewers saw the two men driving around in Volkswagen's 1997 "Da, da, da" television commercial as gay, and almost any same-sex pair in commercials can be interpreted as romantically involved, if the viewer wants them to be. "Gay [people] tend to read themselves into ads," Chasin said.
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Police arrested Cristal Campbell, 29, at a friend's apartment in Boston's Dorchester section.
Campbell had been on the lam since Friday, when she announced during a hearing on identity-fraud charges that she was about to have a baby. A puddle of liquid formed at her feet, convincing paramedics that a baby on the way. They rushed her to a hospital, where she slipped out of her room.
Auhorities believe Campbell simply urinated to fool officials.
Campbell was arrested later that day by a Boston police officer who recognized Campbell. But she escaped from her hospital room a second time.
She was wanted on more than 50 warrants throughout Massachusetts.
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"It hit everybody," City Clerk Lourena Schrader said. "It was a mess."
Michael Joseph Murphy, 42, dropped the a bucket filled with feces and urine on a table where council members were sitting. It splattered onto a handful of city officials sitting around the table and triggered immediate health concerns.
The Keokuk County sheriff says people splattered by the waste should be tested for hepatitis.
"If I had a cut or something, I would get checked out," Sheriff Ron George said Tuesday.
But officials from the Iowa Department of Public Health said it is unlikely that anyone would become infected from the incident.
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See the Frogs
SARASOTA, Florida -- A man who concocted a drink from "psychedelic flowers" was charged with negligence after a baby sitter unwittingly served the drink to his two young sons.
I Love L.A.
WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. -- The Dodgers apologized Wednesday to a lesbian couple ejected from Dodger Stadium earlier this month after the two shared a kiss during a game against the Chicago Cubs.
Free Samples?
DENVER - A man who started an organization to fight suicide after his youngest son killed himself has lost another son to suicide.
Speaking of drunks
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. -- Pearl Jam is asking fans planning to attend a Sunday concert here to leave blankets at home.
Germans Have Smaller Penises
Source: Reuters News Services
Confused cop gets lost
PHILADELPHIA -- A police officer trying to transport a rape victim from a downtown hospital to a police unit a few miles away got lost and ended up in another state, about 70 miles away.
Anal Hazing NOT Acceptable In Connecticut
Laddie!
TRENTON, N.J. - A Trenton man was busted with 50 grams of green crack-cocaine last week, authorities said.
Suspect Held in Semen Squirt Gun Attacks
OCOEE, Fla. (APBNews.com) --- A suspect has been arrested in a series of bizarre attacks in which young girls were sprayed with bodily fluids from a squirt gun.
Pranksters Acquire Taste for Mr. Potato Heads
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (APBnews.com) -- They were supposed to lure families to Rhode Island. But the giant statues of Mr. Potato Head have attracted another sort: vandals who've ripped off stub noses, chubby arms and, most recently, the entire spud.
Peeing with Prosthetic Penis Violates Probation [And common sense]
SAN ANTONIO (APBnews.com) -- A heroin addict on probation tried to pull a fast one on officers by using a fake penis to provide urine for a drug test, authorities said today.
Men Caught Pissing on Authority... Literally
KEY WEST, Fla. (APBnews.com) -- Six visitors to this island town were arrested after they jumped and urinated on a local police cruiser -- all in the hope of getting their picture on a Japanese Web site.
World's Biggest Printing Press Mishaps, Vol. 1
SEATTLE, May 22 (Reuters) - The Seattle Times newspaper on Monday apologized for inadvertently printing a stock obituary headline over an advertisement for Alaska Airlines, a carrier battered by a recent deadly crash and ongoing government probes.
Don't even ask about the Nightsticks...
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) -- The picture of six nearly nude police officers was supposed to be a simple Christmas present. It ended up being a gift that kept on giving.
Here is one of the six "offenders"... doesn't he look so innocent?
Where scalpers dare not tread...
LAKE WORTH, Texas (APBnews.com) -- An inmate on death row for killing three people with a bomb apparently tried to auction five seats to his execution on eBay.
Tales of the Anal Retentive Politician, Part I
MOSCOW - A high-school student in a tiny village deep in the Russian countryside made the mistake of writing to President Vladimir Putin, and now she finds herself stripped of the graduation honours she had been expecting and enrolled in a dairy academy instead of heading for medical school.
World's Worst Blow-Job
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - A Grand Rapids man was transferred to a Twin Cities hospital after his roommate reported he was bitten by a tarantula last
week.
Headin' down the Homo Highway
A car can be a symbol of manhood, a venue for clandestine groping or proof of a 16th birthday. Now, with the birth of a Subaru ad campaign, cars can also define sexual orientation.
Use for human excrement #84
BOSTON - An alleged con woman who escaped police by urinating on the floor during a court hearing and claiming that her "water had broken" was recaptured Wednesday, authorities say.
Use for human excrement #10
DELTA, Iowa - A man angry over a problem with his sewer line dumped a five-gallon bucket of human waste at a city council meeting, splattering members in the process.
