Topical Chat, June 29, 2007

Ah, mid summer weather … in the month of June, no less!

1. On a guy who is trying to eliminate “Ladies Night” at Colorado bars:
“This guy needs to go play in traffic during rush hour … may I suggest the Schuylkill Expressway?”
http://www.westword.com/2007-06-28/news/ladies-nights-rip/

2. On Britain proposing to remove the term "prostitute" from the criminal statutes because it carries too much stigma:
“How about replacing it with ‘cum-dumpster?’”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070628/od_nm/britain_prostitute_dc;_ylt=ArH4i3YX0jKeKvRn714wT8wSH9EA

3. On a teacher who forced a pupil to write "I am a retard" 100 times:
“This teacher sounds like Principal material.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070628/od_nm/italy_teacher_dc;_ylt=ArPMpfbFkdpB.H4xVDRvFnzMWM0F

4. On the city of Beijing banning taxi drivers from shaving their heads and wearing "too fancy" hairstyles prior to the Olympics:
“Have they banned them from smelling bad?”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070628/od_afp/oly2008chntaxischinaoffbeat_070628080041;_ylt=AiJVNgiHDR5dO7nWR._1M9LMWM0F

5. On an officer who ordered two women to put on a "sex show" in a jail cell being fired:
“Wait, and this happened in Philly? No way!”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070628/ap_on_fe_st/odd_officer_sex_show;_ylt=AktIhcLeBGp4WSxYNk58FGnMWM0F\

6. On two German teenagers robbing a girl but leaving their own pictures behind for police on a discarded mobile phone:
“Somebody needs to write a book about what not to do when committing a crime …. Geez!”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070628/od_nm/germany_thieves_dc;_ylt=Au8q1_9vTEvxlvP7.lvxGATMWM0F

7. On a Japanese woman who murdered four people with poisoned curry nine years ago planning to run for Parliament seat from Death Row:
“Um … she might want to find out when the election is …”
http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/waiwai/news/20070627p2g00m0dm006000c.html

8. On Toronto’s City Hall pondering charging a tax for customers to wait outside on Toronto-owned sidewalks to get into establishments:
“Gosh, I just love the government …”
http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_12334.aspx