Topical Chat, October 30, 2007

I hope everyone has a ghoulish Halloween!!!!

1. On the Texas State Library and Archives Commission declaring there are too many state reports … in a 668-page report:
“Before we jump to any conclusions about this report, I think we need to commission another report verifying the findings of this report … and maybe we should hold some meetings, as well …”
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/5254618.html

2. On a couple that ended up in jail, both facing drunken driving charges, after police first pulled over the husband, who was driving with his young son in the car, and then arrested the mother when she showed up to pick up the boy:
“Good thing they didn’t bring in the grandparents!”
http://blog.mlive.com/annarbornews/2007/10/husband_arrested_first_wife_so.html

3. On new monkey-catchers being hired by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) to deal with the monkey menace in the city (India):
“But, who will run the government?”
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Assam_squads_to_catch_Delhi_monkeys_/articleshow/2498098.cms

4. On a youth soccer coach who went to the middle of a sports field in after a contentious match and pulled down his pants, exposing his buttocks to his opponents - a team of 14 and 15-year-old girls:
“Sadly, this guy is most likely somebody’s father …”
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/10/29/BA05T2GAG.DTL

5. On passengers on a German train mistaking a Halloween reveller dressed up as a gore-covered zombie for a murder victim and calling the police:
“You know you have a good Halloween costume when …”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071029/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_germany_halloween;_ylt=AtQm3mtzPHmWHPfs_V7d2K.s0NUE

6. On a high school girl being suspended for having two unopened boxes of shotgun shells in her car at school, even though she had no firearm with her and is a Junior Olympic skeet-shooting champ:
“The Olympic committee is investigating whether to test her urine as well …”
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/1029shoot1029.html

7. On a guy who saved woman stuck in train doors from being crushed, ending up being fined 60 euros for delaying the train:
“That’ll teach him to try to be a hero at the expensive of people late for work!”
http://www.shortnews.com/start.cfm?id=65985

8. On a production error at a factory that led to Iowa school children getting rubber bracelets saying "BETTER DO DRUGS" for Red Ribbon Week:
“All that work that Nancy Reagan did … up in smoke … so to say …”
http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071029/NEWS/71029004/1001