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Saturday, March 24, 2007

Tigger gets teen detention; What would Pooh get you?

NAPA - Mar. 22, 2007 - The Napa Valley Unified School District has a strict dress code for students. No jeans allowed. No pictures, words, symbols or patterns.

And apparently no Tigger, of Winnie the Pooh fame.

The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit in Superior Court on behalf of 14-year-old Toni Kay Scott, five other students at Redwood Middle School and their parents, challenging a dress code imposed by the school and the school district.

According to the suit, Scott's parents asked the school to exempt her from the dress code, and she came to class on the first day of the 2005-06 school year wearing a denim skirt, a brown shirt with a pink border, and long socks with pictures of Tigger.

She was escorted to the principal's office by a uniformed police officer and, along with two of her schoolmates, was sent to an in-school suspension program called Students With Attitude Problems.

The ACLU says the school and the district are overstepping the limits set by California law.

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Scott was asked what she really thought about the dress code. Her response: "I think it's ridiccorous. All I want is bouncy, pouncy, flouncy, trouncy, fun fun fun fun..."

Labels: bizarre, california, dress code, napa, news, odd, offbeat, offbeat news, quirky, student gets detention, tigger, weird

Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Would be Truck Thief chased down by owner in his underwear

EASTVALE, Calif. — The owner of a stolen pickup truck, wearing only his underwear, used his wife's van to chase down the thief. The 29-year-old man was sipping coffee in his garage before dawn Sunday when his Ford Ranger suddenly started up and roared off.

The man, whose name was withheld, then jumped into his wife's van and, wearing only his underwear, gave chase. Inside the floor-installer's pickup were his tools.

"He said 'I just couldn't let my truck go because it's my livelihood,'" said Kirk Durbin of the California Highway Patrol.

The man pursued his pickup at speeds up to 80 mph in the unincorporated Riverside County community before ramming the Ford Ranger with his wife's van. The pickup struck a concrete barrier and the thief ran into a field and got into a Chevrolet S-10 pickup and fled, the CHP said.

The Ford Ranger had moderate damage to the front and back, and the van had major damage in the front, Durbin said.

By the time investigators arrived, the man had called his wife on a witness's cell phone and had her bring him some clothes, the CHP officer said.

"He's got a lot of courage," Durbin said.

There were no arrests.

Goosey's Gabbings...

There were--no arrests? Ummm...ok. How does that make ANY sense?

The saying usually goes when someone robs someone else, that the robber must "need it" more than the victim...It's pretty obvious in this case that this was definitely not the phrase to use.

Labels: bizarre, california, crime, funny, humorous, news, odd, offbeat, offbeat news, quirky, strange, weird

Sunday, March 18, 2007

What do you get when you mix M and M's, Twizzlers, and Salsa? Theft resulting in murder..

LANCASTER - The case of 18-year-old Joseph Peterson started out as a relatively minor affair involving the alleged theft of M&Ms and Twizzlers from a discount store - but ended up as murder, according to prosecutors.

When the Lancaster man tried to flee after what police called a petty theft, Charles Hairston, a 51-year-old homeless group volunteer, tried to stop him. Peterson threw a bottle of salsa at him, hitting him in the head.

Hairston died three weeks later.

"It's a sad story. (Hairston) was a good Samaritan who tried to help out, and unfortunately with these circumstances, he was killed," Deputy District Attorney Bernie LaForteza said.

Peterson, who is being held in lieu of $986,000 bail, is scheduled to be arraigned next month on one count of murder. His attorney, Tyson Beers, declined to comment on the case.

Hairston, a Lancaster resident, was outside the Lancaster 99 Cents store July 14 collecting donations for a group that assists the homeless when Peterson, his girlfriend and another couple went inside the store, LaForteza said.

Store employees saw them taking candy and tried to stop them, LaForteza said.

Peterson was angry and yelled at the victim as he drove off in his Dodge Neon, LaForteza said.

Afraid that he would return, store staff members called sheriff's deputies and saw Peterson stop across the street to look at the damage to his car, LaForteza said.

A short time later, Peterson did return and got into an argument with Hairston over the car damage. He chased Hairston into the store and hurled a shopping cart that hit an employee, the prosecutor said.

Peterson threw a container of carpet deodorizer at Hairston, hitting him in the back, and then picked up a glass jar of salsa, LaForteza said.

"From 6 to 8 feet away, he throws it, very hard, and strikes the victim on the head," LaForteza said.

Deputies arrived and arrested Peterson, who four days later pleaded guilty to misdemeanor burglary and assault with a deadly weapon and was sentenced to 30 days in jail and placed on three years' probation.

Goosey's Gabbings...

I've read that Mexican food is bad for you, but this takes the queso...

Labels: bizarre, california, death, death by food, funny, lancaster, news, odd, quirky, strange, weird, weird deaths

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