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nikita- 06-18-2007
QUOTE (tothemax @ June 18, 2007 10:53 am)
US school bans touching of any kind between students.

That is absolutely ridiculous. They also have assigned cafeteria tables. What the hell is that about?

General Erin- 06-18-2007
QUOTE (tothemax @ June 18, 2007 10:53 am)
US school bans touching of any kind between students.

Soon to be followed by no looking rules and no speaking rules, and finally, no attending school rules.

bookworm- 06-18-2007
QUOTE (tothemax @ June 18, 2007 11:53 am)
US school bans touching of any kind between students.

How about banning them from throwing things out of the bus windows. Seriously.

jstilwe- 06-18-2007
QUOTE (psammead @ June 18, 2007 12:50 pm)
Good grief. No wonder American teens have to turn to this sort of thing

Yes, sexually abusing horses is the la-*test*-('") thing here in the colonies!

particle_person- 06-18-2007
New York City pays $29,000 for illegally arresting topless woman

(Original headline: "Topless Bust Costs NYC $29,000")

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Jill Coccaro, 27, was arrested on a topless stroll two years ago, despite a 1992 state appeals court ruling that concluded women should have the same right as men to take off their shirts.

Jesus H. Garcia- 06-18-2007
Wow. Did not know about that ruling. Good to know.

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Coccaro, who now goes by the name Phoenix Feeley...


Love. It.

psammead- 06-19-2007
Snakes in a Gnome!

Aw! Good Will Hunting - the musical!

Jesus H. Garcia- 06-19-2007
Study: Having male twin reduces woman's fertility

QueenSix- 06-19-2007
Anger over Bulger Video Game.

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A computer game that featured a CCTV image of James Bulger being abducted has been withdrawn by its distributors.
The CCTV image, which was taken at the New Strand Shopping Centre in Bootle in 1993, can be seen pinned to wall of a police station.

In it, James can be seen being led away to his death by the two 10-year-olds.


That's just bad form.

psammead- 06-19-2007
Wow! Though since the game has been out for five years, it would be interesting to know how many people have played it without realising it's real footage.

leone- 06-20-2007
Ugh, that's so wrong. How on earth did that image end up in the video game - how screwed-up do you have to be not to realise how inappropriate that was?

tothemax- 06-20-2007
People are so very strange: Stab victim 'continued masturbating.

particle_person- 06-20-2007
JT Leroy fraud trial starts

JT Leroy was the literary fraud case that turned up around the same time as the James Frey fraud came out.

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Stripped of its emotion and labyrinthine literary games the trial, in district court, is actually a mere contractual dispute. A film production company has sued Ms. Albert, saying that a contract signed to make a feature film of “Sarah” should be null and void, for the simple reason that its chief signatory, JT Leroy, does not exist.


In other news, the real "Leroy" is batshit crazy:
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Traveling one summer in Virginia as a child, she said met a trucker who, as she put it, “would give you a dollar and a chocolate for a kiss.” She said the trucker spanked her — that she wanted him to spank her. “He said the word: are you a bad girl? He got rid of the bad. That’s how I wouldn’t go to hell.”


Read the whole thing -- there's lots more crazy at the end of the article.

psammead- 06-20-2007
OMG. Texas crowd beats passenger to death
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An angry Texas crowd has beaten and killed a 40-year-old car passenger after a driver injured a young girl near the site of a busy local festival.


More amusingly - Indians rattled by vibrating condom

nikita- 06-21-2007
Large lake in Chile disappears

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