What made you go WTF today?

It was bound to happen eventually, I suppose.

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3rd-Grader Busted For Jolly Rancher Possession

A third-grader in a small Texas school district received a week's detention for merely possessing a Jolly Rancher. Leighann Adair, 10, was eating lunch Monday when a teacher confiscated the candy. Her parents said she was in tears when she arrived home later that afternoon and handed them the detention notice. But school officials are defending the sentence, saying the school was abiding by a state guideline that banned 'minimal nutrition' foods. 'Whether or not I agree with the guidelines, we have to follow the rules,' said school superintendent Jack Ellis.

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http://www.khou.com/news/Candy-Gets-...-93033319.html

Holy hell. This is what happens when 8 year olds are smarter than the people running the schools.

WTF. All 10 year olds these days know to hide their fucking candy and gum, especially in the monitored cafeteria. Maybe Leighann was too busy sexting on her cell phone during lunch to notice. That'll teach her about multi-tasking.

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A voluntary hospital worker who rescued 60 goldfish from their ornamental pond when it was being drained is facing prosecution and a £1,000 fine - because he didn't have a licence to move them...

Mr Roberts, a window cleaner, has been told he should have applied for a licence to move the fish - which takes around 30 days to complete.


'This was an emergency,' he said. 'The fish were already distressed by the falling water levels when I took them out. They didn't have 30 days.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ined-pond.html :bulb:

Lieghann? WTF? Is that meant to be Leanne? The otherwise not especially retarded girls name?

The parents deserve a weeks detention for that shit.

70 years without eating or drinking.

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What western medicine fails to recognize is that the human body has many secrets and capacities that few have explored. The human organism is not merely mechanical. And the capacity of the universe to surprise us with the unexpected should make modern doctors be more humble.

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Originally Posted by Being

70 years without eating or drinking.

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That old hoax again?

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Originally Posted by Khendraja'aro

That old hoax again?

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New to me. Care to elaborate?

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Originally Posted by Being

New to me. Care to elaborate?

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18787329

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Originally Posted by Khendraja'aro

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18787329

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It doesn't look like the same thing to me. The article I posted says no food or fluid intake.

The truth is out there, huh Mulder

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Originally Posted by Loki

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ined-pond.html :bulb:

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Oh, my fucking God. This exact thing is why it should be legal to shoot cops and politicians on sight.

Reminds me of that story someone posted a while back about Georgia (?), where it's punishable by up to 7 years in prison to practice interior decorating without a license.

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Originally Posted by Being

It doesn't look like the same thing to me. The article I posted says no food or fluid intake.

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New instance of an old scam. They'll find out he's secretly sneaking nutritional supplements, or getting his nourishment intravenously, or whatever. It's actually a huge problem in India right now - fake mystics and magic men attracting hundreds of thousands of followers... who donate money to them. All about the dead presidents, as usual.

I almost posted this in the picture thread, but I have to admit the first thing I thought when I saw it was WTF.

https://www.t-mobilepictures.com/mya...828626000.jpeg

Someone managed to climb our rather steep 2 story dome shaped auditorium, so they could top it with a caution cone. :bulb:

BIG BOOBY

small little pointy nipple

NSFW:

Spoiler:

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:o

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A 13-year-old boy has told jurors that his parents held him prisoner in his own home, locked him in a closet and shot him with pellets from an air gun.

The Athens Banner-Herald reported that the boy testified in a barely audible voice Friday at the trial of his mother and stepfather, Damita Devonna Peak and Norris Lazarus Walker who are charged with 82 felony counts in a child cruelty case.

He said he was handcuffed and naked when he was locked inside the closet and had to sleep on the floor. He said he at meals of bread and water and urinated in a plastic jug.

The boys said he thought he was punished for stealing a honey bun from the kitchen.

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Stealing a honey bun from the kitchen? In his own house?

Am I supposed to punish the kids when they eat now? I find it sufficient that they don't take food to their rooms.

He who spares closet lockings hates his son, apparently

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Originally Posted by littlelolligagged

Stealing a honey bun from the kitchen? In his own house?

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Maybe he's a fatty with juvenile diabetes... or maybe his folks are sadistic bastards. Gotta be one or the other.

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Originally Posted by CitizenCain

Maybe he's a fatty with juvenile diabetes... or maybe his folks are sadistic bastards. Gotta be one or the other.

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A little from column A and a little from column B.

There are some seriously fucked up people raising kids in this world. :down:

SCOTUS rules courts don't have the right to stipulate length of sentence for some criminals. So who, exactly, determines? They left that part out. :bulb:

A link that makes a little more sense:

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The Supreme Court said Monday that the federal government can keep "sexually dangerous" prisoners in custody past the completion of their sentences, overruling arguments that only states hold such power.
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Justice Stephen Breyer said Congress could authorize the civil commitment of these offenders under its constitutional authority to enact laws "necessary and proper" to the exercise of its specific powers

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Originally Posted by Being

SCOTUS rules courts don't have the right to stipulate length of sentence for some criminals. So who, exactly, determines? They left that part out. :bulb:

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Bad news. :(

And what stipulates, then, is the legislature, since you asked. They get to determine what crimes are what level of offense, what the min and max punishments for those levels are, or even completely buck the trend with whatever pet crime of the week they decide to create is.

Apparently, they also get to keep you in jail after you've done your time, should Congress say so. Thank you, "liberal" judges. :bored:

I assume the legislation would be retroactive?? Sounds like getting tried twice for the same crime.

The BBC has a selection of quotes from papers around the world about the British election, some were amusing (Iran claiming to UK is less democratic than it as lower turnout), some were sensible, but these two made me laugh, from Zimbabwe:

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The British change of guard offers a simple lesson in the practice of modern-day democracy. Those who lose elections, by whatever margins, should accept the fact and move on to write their memoirs, give their families some of their time and hope posterity will look kindly upon them

Standard, opposition paper

The chaotic nature of British 'democracy' was laid bare for the whole world to see. But the election scandal runs deeper, as the under-representation of women shows.

Sunday Mail, government newspaper

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8686336.stm

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Originally Posted by Being

I assume the legislation would be retroactive??

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I think it already exists, which is what this case sorted out - state level civil commitments are unconstitutional, but federal-level civil commitments are allowed. Ugh.

I'm so hoping that AQ manages to nuke D.C. already. Enough threats and whining and wimpy airliner attacks already. Nuke the fucking capital, please!

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Originally Posted by Being

Sounds like getting tried twice for the same crime.

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Well, serving time twice for the same crime anyway. And, yes, that *is* the reason that civil commitments are utterly unconstitutional bullshit (double jeopardy), no matter what 7 retarded judges seem to think.

Another WTF is up with Utah... judge reminds police that rapping an order in the McD's drive-thru is not a crime.

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A Jefferson County geometry teacher has been placed on paid administrative leave after being accused of using a hypothetical assassination of President Barack Obama as a way to teach geometric angles.

School Superintendent Phil Hammonds said Tuesday that Corner High School teacher Gregory Harrison showed a lack of judgment and faces the possibility of termination.

Birmingham's Secret Service office questioned the teacher but closed the case after determining there was no credible threat.

Hammond said his office has been flooded with calls from across the nation, mainly by people upset at the initial decision not to take any disciplinary action against the teacher.

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Freedom of speech...or something.

So not only can you die under a Metro train, but inside them too:

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Body May Have Been Aboard Metro Train for Hours

A passenger died Monday while riding a Red Line train, according to Metro.Paramedics were called there after receiving a report of an “unconscious patron” on a train at Shady Grove. They determined the passenger was dead.
The man got on the inbound train at Twinbrook at about 10:15 a.m., which means he traveled to Silver Spring and then back to Shady Grove by 11:55 a.m., according to Metro police. No one reported the body to Metro, and the man was not seen during the inspection of the train before it was put in the rail yard.


The body was found as the train was prepared to be put back in service before 3 p.m. Metro is reviewing its procedure for inspecting trains before moving them into rail yards after service.
A Metro spokesperson said the death is not being considered suspicious.

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37207223

Burglar alarm fail

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