Lady Chris
03-06-2006, 06:49 PM
Ive always wanted to add somthing to the site and after awhile of thinking about it I decided to contribute what a local radio station in Virginia calls Stupid News.
Here's the deal, every morning station FM99 does a section on comical/stupid things that makes news and then posts them on their website. While some of its just hilarious, most of it is quite unbelievable. I have pasted some of the lastest below if you guys want to comment on it. But the website itself is http://fm99.com/StupidNews.asp and http://fm99.com for their home page.
Now I posted 5 from the website and you guys can read them and go to the site or even post a few of your favorites and discuss some of the rediculous ones that come up from time to time if you like.
I hope you all enjoy my little addition to the forums!!!!
Band Sticker on Bike Causes Bomb Scare
A sticker on a bicycle that said "this bike is a pipe bomb" caused a scare Thursday at Ohio University that shut down four buildings before authorities learned the message was the name of a punk rock band, a university spokesman said.
The sticker on the bike chained outside the university-owned Oasis restaurant near the center of campus attracted the attention of a police officer about 5:30 a.m., spokesman Jack Jeffery said.
Police blocked streets around the restaurant and the Columbus police bomb squad came from about 65 miles away.
The bomb experts hit the bike with a high-pressure spray of water, then pried it apart with a hydraulic device normally used to rescue accident victims trapped in cars, acting Athens Fire Chief Ken Gilbraith said. Once they had it open, they saw there was no bomb.
The buildings, including some classroom facilities, were reopened after a couple hours.
Dean of Students Terry Hogan urged students to be more careful when showing support for the band from Pensacola, Fla.
University police interviewed the bike's owner then released him, Jeffery said. Police are still investigating.
An e-mail seeking comment was sent to Plan-It-X Records, listed on a Web site for the band as its record label. The label does not have a published phone number.
Clearwater teacher suspended after student urinates in closet
CLEARWATER, Fla. - A teacher has been recommended for suspension after she did not allow a student to use a restroom, resulting in the student urinating in a trash can in a classroom closet, school officials said.
Clearwater High School teacher, Lesley Campbell, violated the school district's policy that prohibits a teacher from making inappropriate remarks to a student or "exposing a student to unnecessary embarrassment or disparagement," district officials said.
Clayton Wilcox, superintendent of Pinellas County schools, says Campbell, 64, should be suspended without pay for 10 days.
"Her decision-making process wasn't appropriate in the classroom," Wilcox said. "Certainly the student did some things that were highly inappropriate, but my focus is on the behavior of the employees and then, separately, on the students."
Campbell said when she told the junior he could not use the restroom Nov. 17, he suggested urinating in the can. Her reply, "Go ahead."
"I didn't let him go, but I should have," Campbell said. "Surely, I never thought he would use the trash can. It was astonishing. By the time he had grabbed the can and headed for the closet, I didn't feel comfortable approaching him."
Campbell, an English teacher, has requested a hearing on her recommended suspension.
She has taught at the school for 20 years.
It was not known if the unidentified student was disciplined.
Woman stabbed husband for refusing sex
An Argentinian woman has been arrested for stabbing her husband because he did not have sex with her.
The 52-year-old, from Buenos Aires, stabbed her husband in the back but he was not seriously injured.
She told police she had spent the day trying to get him into bed but he had ignored all of her hints.
The woman told La Cuarta: "I wore a G-string and high heels in the house but he did not notice, I could not stand this.
"I got really mad and I stabbed him."
The husband went to the police station to lodge a complant before going to hospital where he was treated for minor injuries.
A police spokesperson said: "She did not think she did anything wrong, she kept saying that he was her husband and that he had to fulfil his obligations and that because he didn't she had the right to punish him."
Scientist gets to the bottom of love
The 'heart' symbol used to represent love is actually based on the shape of female buttocks, according to a scientist.
Pscychologist Galdino Pranzarone, who studied the origins of Valentine's Day, says the symbol is inspired by a woman's bottom as seen from the rear.
Prof Pranzarone, of Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia, told Discovery News that he analyzed "essential literary and speculative evidence from mythology and secondary sources."
"The twin lobes of the stylized version correspond roughly to the paired auricles and ventricles of the anatomical heart," he said.
But he added that the organ "is never bright red in color" and its "shape does not have the invagination at the top nor the sharp point at the base."
Pranzarone indicated that the ancient Greeks and Romans could have originated the link between human female anatomy and the heart shape.
The Greeks, he said, associated beauty with the curves of the human female behind.
"The Greek goddess of beauty, Aphrodite, was beautiful all over, but was unique in that her buttocks were especially beautiful," he said.
"Her shapely rounded hemispheres were so appreciated by the Greeks that they built a special temple Aphrodite Kallipygos, which literally meant, Goddess with the Beautiful Buttocks.
"This was probably the only religious building in the world that was dedicated to buttock worship."
Mich. Man Sentenced in Sheep Abuse Case
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. - A man who pleaded no contest to a sodomy charge involving a sheep says he should not have to register as a sex offender.
Jeffrey S. Haynes said the state registry is intended to keep track of people who have committed crimes against humans.
But Calhoun County Circuit Court Judge Conrad Sindt told Haynes at his sentencing hearing that once he is released from prison, he must register with the Michigan State Police Public Sex Offender Registry.
Haynes, 42, of Battle Creek, was sentenced Monday to 2 1/2 years to 20 years in prison. He entered the plea in January. A no contest plea is not an admission of guilt but is treated as such for sentencing purposes.
Tamara Towns, an assistant prosecutor for the county, argued that Haynes should be ordered to register as a sex offender because once out of prison, he could prey on children or vulnerable adults.
Haynes said he is not a violent person and would not assault children.
"The prosecutor is being real hard on me for what I did," he said. "But I should not be treated as a child molester."
A telephone call seeking comment was left Tuesday at the Marshall office of defense attorney John B. Sullivan.
Police said Haynes had sex with a sheep at a Bedford Township farm on Jan. 26, 2005. The animal's owner caught him on the property and the sheep was found injured.
Haynes was arrested in June after a DNA sample taken from the animal matched Haynes' genetic material.
Haynes has prior convictions for burglary, home invasion and uttering and publishing, and was on parole for burglary at the time of the sex crime.
Here's the deal, every morning station FM99 does a section on comical/stupid things that makes news and then posts them on their website. While some of its just hilarious, most of it is quite unbelievable. I have pasted some of the lastest below if you guys want to comment on it. But the website itself is http://fm99.com/StupidNews.asp and http://fm99.com for their home page.
Now I posted 5 from the website and you guys can read them and go to the site or even post a few of your favorites and discuss some of the rediculous ones that come up from time to time if you like.
I hope you all enjoy my little addition to the forums!!!!
Band Sticker on Bike Causes Bomb Scare
A sticker on a bicycle that said "this bike is a pipe bomb" caused a scare Thursday at Ohio University that shut down four buildings before authorities learned the message was the name of a punk rock band, a university spokesman said.
The sticker on the bike chained outside the university-owned Oasis restaurant near the center of campus attracted the attention of a police officer about 5:30 a.m., spokesman Jack Jeffery said.
Police blocked streets around the restaurant and the Columbus police bomb squad came from about 65 miles away.
The bomb experts hit the bike with a high-pressure spray of water, then pried it apart with a hydraulic device normally used to rescue accident victims trapped in cars, acting Athens Fire Chief Ken Gilbraith said. Once they had it open, they saw there was no bomb.
The buildings, including some classroom facilities, were reopened after a couple hours.
Dean of Students Terry Hogan urged students to be more careful when showing support for the band from Pensacola, Fla.
University police interviewed the bike's owner then released him, Jeffery said. Police are still investigating.
An e-mail seeking comment was sent to Plan-It-X Records, listed on a Web site for the band as its record label. The label does not have a published phone number.
Clearwater teacher suspended after student urinates in closet
CLEARWATER, Fla. - A teacher has been recommended for suspension after she did not allow a student to use a restroom, resulting in the student urinating in a trash can in a classroom closet, school officials said.
Clearwater High School teacher, Lesley Campbell, violated the school district's policy that prohibits a teacher from making inappropriate remarks to a student or "exposing a student to unnecessary embarrassment or disparagement," district officials said.
Clayton Wilcox, superintendent of Pinellas County schools, says Campbell, 64, should be suspended without pay for 10 days.
"Her decision-making process wasn't appropriate in the classroom," Wilcox said. "Certainly the student did some things that were highly inappropriate, but my focus is on the behavior of the employees and then, separately, on the students."
Campbell said when she told the junior he could not use the restroom Nov. 17, he suggested urinating in the can. Her reply, "Go ahead."
"I didn't let him go, but I should have," Campbell said. "Surely, I never thought he would use the trash can. It was astonishing. By the time he had grabbed the can and headed for the closet, I didn't feel comfortable approaching him."
Campbell, an English teacher, has requested a hearing on her recommended suspension.
She has taught at the school for 20 years.
It was not known if the unidentified student was disciplined.
Woman stabbed husband for refusing sex
An Argentinian woman has been arrested for stabbing her husband because he did not have sex with her.
The 52-year-old, from Buenos Aires, stabbed her husband in the back but he was not seriously injured.
She told police she had spent the day trying to get him into bed but he had ignored all of her hints.
The woman told La Cuarta: "I wore a G-string and high heels in the house but he did not notice, I could not stand this.
"I got really mad and I stabbed him."
The husband went to the police station to lodge a complant before going to hospital where he was treated for minor injuries.
A police spokesperson said: "She did not think she did anything wrong, she kept saying that he was her husband and that he had to fulfil his obligations and that because he didn't she had the right to punish him."
Scientist gets to the bottom of love
The 'heart' symbol used to represent love is actually based on the shape of female buttocks, according to a scientist.
Pscychologist Galdino Pranzarone, who studied the origins of Valentine's Day, says the symbol is inspired by a woman's bottom as seen from the rear.
Prof Pranzarone, of Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia, told Discovery News that he analyzed "essential literary and speculative evidence from mythology and secondary sources."
"The twin lobes of the stylized version correspond roughly to the paired auricles and ventricles of the anatomical heart," he said.
But he added that the organ "is never bright red in color" and its "shape does not have the invagination at the top nor the sharp point at the base."
Pranzarone indicated that the ancient Greeks and Romans could have originated the link between human female anatomy and the heart shape.
The Greeks, he said, associated beauty with the curves of the human female behind.
"The Greek goddess of beauty, Aphrodite, was beautiful all over, but was unique in that her buttocks were especially beautiful," he said.
"Her shapely rounded hemispheres were so appreciated by the Greeks that they built a special temple Aphrodite Kallipygos, which literally meant, Goddess with the Beautiful Buttocks.
"This was probably the only religious building in the world that was dedicated to buttock worship."
Mich. Man Sentenced in Sheep Abuse Case
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. - A man who pleaded no contest to a sodomy charge involving a sheep says he should not have to register as a sex offender.
Jeffrey S. Haynes said the state registry is intended to keep track of people who have committed crimes against humans.
But Calhoun County Circuit Court Judge Conrad Sindt told Haynes at his sentencing hearing that once he is released from prison, he must register with the Michigan State Police Public Sex Offender Registry.
Haynes, 42, of Battle Creek, was sentenced Monday to 2 1/2 years to 20 years in prison. He entered the plea in January. A no contest plea is not an admission of guilt but is treated as such for sentencing purposes.
Tamara Towns, an assistant prosecutor for the county, argued that Haynes should be ordered to register as a sex offender because once out of prison, he could prey on children or vulnerable adults.
Haynes said he is not a violent person and would not assault children.
"The prosecutor is being real hard on me for what I did," he said. "But I should not be treated as a child molester."
A telephone call seeking comment was left Tuesday at the Marshall office of defense attorney John B. Sullivan.
Police said Haynes had sex with a sheep at a Bedford Township farm on Jan. 26, 2005. The animal's owner caught him on the property and the sheep was found injured.
Haynes was arrested in June after a DNA sample taken from the animal matched Haynes' genetic material.
Haynes has prior convictions for burglary, home invasion and uttering and publishing, and was on parole for burglary at the time of the sex crime.