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Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Student brings pot to school for show and tell

St. Paul A St. Paul third grader has been suspended after he brought a small bag of marijuana to school and showed it to his friends, police and school officials said Tuesday.

The boy, a student at Benjamin E. Mays Magnet for Communication Arts and Leadership, was found with the drugs on Monday.

A school official called police just before noon, after another student said the boy had been showing the pot to friends, the police report said.

The boy said he found the marijuana at his home. His mother said someone must have left it there, said police spokesman Tom Walsh.

The case was reported to Ramsey County child protection services, Walsh said. There were no signs of negligence, nor a history of negligence, at the home, he said.

School district officials said they could not disclose the length of the boy's suspension.

Goosey's Gabbings...
I suppose when they asked the woman for identification, she told them "my dog ate it" as well. Whatever.......................

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Flight forced to land after Passenger gets into fight

CALCUTTA, India (AP) - An Indian Airlines flight from Bangkok to New Delhi made an emergency landing in Calcutta in eastern India on Wednesday after a passenger said he had a bomb in his bag after a scuffle with another passenger, an airline spokesman said.

The passenger, identified as a Mexican man, was drunk and became involved in fight with another passenger, said airline spokesman Pulak Mukherjee.

When the crew tried to subdue him he shouted that he had a bomb in his bag, Mukherjee said. The crew informed the pilot who decided to make an emergency landing.

The passenger was arrested and the plane was being searched by police, Mukherjee said.

Calcutta Inspector General of Police Raj Kanojia said police were investigating the case.

Goosey's Gabbings...
It's not often that you see the trifecta with air travel: too drunk, gets in fight, claims bomb. This guy definitely is going to the hall of shame for his antics. Just like in Tommy Boy "He's just a big dumb animal, folks..."

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BBC Sign Language takes on new meaning

I said what?

A BBC children's TV presenter has been accused of getting his sign language embarrassingly wrong.

CBeebies character Mr Tumble - aka presenter Justin Fletcher - aims to greet hard-of-hearing tots by signing: "I'm happy to see you."

But angry parents say the BBC is mixing up its signals and broadcasting something much more offensive.

Jamie Miller, who works for the Royal National Institute for the Deaf, says he was stunned when he watched Something Special with daughter Kate, five.

Mr Miller, 32, from Northallerton, North Yorkshire, said: "The signs for 'happy' and 'f***ing' are quite similar but it was an awful mistake to make.

"Katie, who is learning sign language, asked what the gesture meant. I didn't know what to tell her."

The BBC denied making a mistake and said they were using Makaton signals which are different to British Sign Language.

But RNID spokeswoman Kate Sidwell said: "Makaton is used more for children with learning difficulties - it is essentially a different language."

Goosey's Gabbings...

This reminds me of a joke by Rondell Sheridan, who said that the spanish word for shark is "Tibron", and he goes to say "If there is any word that needs to be universal, don't you think SHARK is at the top of that list?" and then goes on to roleplay..."Tibron--Well, tibron to you too! Hey Honey, I'm speaking spanish!!......Honey?"

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Veteran Police officer fired for Nude Video--AGAIN

PUNTA GORDA, Fla. -- A nude appearance in an "Girls Gone Wild"-style adult video sold on the Internet has cost a veteran police officer her job -- again. The graphic video shows former police officer Gina Wiseley dancing nude at Key West's decadent Fantasy Fest in 2001. She resigned from her job as a Lee County sheriff's deputy in 2005 after a local TV station reported on her appearance in the tape, triggering an internal investigation. Punta Gorda police fired Wiseley on Feb. 27 after another internal investigation into allegations that she showed the video to a detective while on duty. The investigation found no proof of the charge. But Wiseley was fired for violating agency policy when she contacted the detective who made the allegation during the internal investigation, according to an internal affairs report. In a statement to investigators, Wiseley, who had worked at the department since October, said she called the detective "because I wanted to know why he's lying ... I did it because I was horrified with the allegations." She also called the tape "the video that ruined my life."

Goosey's Gabbings...
In the words of Bugs Bunny..."What a maroon"

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Station Fires Worker in Porn Newscast Case

MESA, Ariz. (AP) - A Phoenix television station fired an employee suspected of inserting pornography into a broadcast of a news show featuring former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw.

The unnamed worker for ION Media Networks' KPPX-TV "was immediately terminated and faces further legal action" after an investigation determined who was responsible for the March 12 incident, spokeswoman Leslie Monreal said in a statement.

Palm Beach, Fla.-based ION Media Networks, which offers family-friendly programs, called the incident "an intolerable act of human sabotage" and apologized to viewers. About 30 seconds of porn was inserted into the broadcast.

Monreal said in a statement released late last week that the images of sex acts only appeared in the Phoenix market.

The images prompted a flood of calls to local news media outlets and the cable television provider.

Goosey's Gabbings...

Most of them wanted to know if the footage was of Brokaw. Some didn't even think it really was all that bad considering Brokaw was talking about the Anna Nicole Smith case at the time.

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"Bleeding" Jesus Portrait in India

PORT BLAIR, India (Reuters) - Thousands of people are flocking to a policeman's house in India's remote Andaman Islands to pray in front of two portraits of Jesus Christ, which are said to have been "bleeding" for the past two weeks, police and witnesses said.

Eric Nathaniel, a police radio operator, found red fluid trickling down a portrait of Jesus in his house two weeks ago which he believed was blood.

"We lit candles and prayed all night and a little later the blood dried but it soon started trickling down from the hands and heart of another portrait in the house," Nathaniel told Reuters in the islands' capital Port Blair on Wednesday.

Officials said red paint used in the portraits could be melting in the extreme humidity, but islanders and priests were coming in boats from remote parts of the Andaman and Nicobar archipelago to pray.

"This is indeed a miracle and shows that Jesus was in pain because of our sins," said John Chrysostom, a priest at the Anglican Church of Port Blair.

One portrait was temporarily moved to the local bishop's house for public viewing after police found it difficult to control swelling crowds.

Goosey's Gabbings...

Nobody seemed to notice the man whose ear was stapled to the other side of the portrait going, "Ummmm....Hellooooo!"

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Teen Sex Book Stirring up Controversy

WASHINGTON, March 20 (UPI) -- A book that teaches teenage girls some of the intricacies of charting is stirring debate among parents and educators.

The book "Cycle Savvy: The Smart Teen's Guide to the Mysteries of Her Body," was written by Toni Weschler, author of the bestseller "Taking Charge of Your Fertility."

She says she wrote the teen book after receiving hundreds of letters from women who read her "Taking Charge" book and wished they had had such information earlier, The Washington Post reported.

The Post said the new book has sparked controversy with both abstinence-only supporters and comprehensive sex education advocates who fear the information may lead teens to have unprotected sex.

While the book tells teens how to determine their most fertile days, it doesn't spell out how to chart fertility for birth control, the newspaper said.

Research published by the journal Human Reproduction found that fertility-awareness charting, if done correctly, is only slightly less effective than the pill.

Goosey's Gabbings...

I really don't see too much of a problem with this; is it condoning sex? Maybe. Is it trying to educate to avoid complications of teen pregnancy? Yes. Is it appropriate? Maybe. Still...If there was a book about this back in the day, it would have burned the moment it was printed. In this day and age where sex certainly sells, this will no doubt be a big book over time. But the question does beg to be asked--will teens use this really to guage their cycles or to be able to have sex unprotected? Inquiring minds want to know.

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