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Daylight Savings Time Puts Kid in Jail for 12 Days
Jherek Carnelian writes "Cody Webb was jailed for calling in a bomb threat to his Hempstead Area high school (near Pittsburgh). He spent 12 days in lockup until the authorities realized that their caller-id log was off an hour because of the new Daylight Savings Time rules and that Cody had only called one hour prior to the actual bomb threat. Perhaps it took so long because of the principal's Catch-22 attitude about Cody's guilt — she said, 'Well, why should we believe you? You're a criminal. Criminals lie all the time.'"
"Well, why should we believe you? You're a criminal. Criminals lie all the time."
When did the RIAA go into the education business?
And in other news, "Zygamorph expelled for inciting violence against principal because school doesn't understand common expression, 'egg on your face' and assumed the principal was to be assaulted with actual eggs." ;-)
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I've eaten in the Hempstead cafeteria. They definitely have WMDs.
Intron: the portion of DNA which expresses nothing useful.
Can we please blame this on video games? Maybe the educator assumed that since he played video games he was a bad kid.
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...if only "Jumping to a Conclusion" was an event in the Olympics.
Before anyone suggests making the furniture round, consider that you'd need custom furniture for every size of room.
Not everyone figures this out, and many people lie about small things ("Yes, honey, that dress looks great.").
I'm your wife, you insensitive clod!!!
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We homeschool too, but I hope I never have to deal with a student calling in a bomb threat!
"Hello... yes, this is he... you've done what?"
(covers telephone mouthpiece)
"Honey? Have you seen the kids this morning?!?"
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Minors have no civil rights.
Judging from her markup, she certainly believes in using <strong> words.
I'll assume the second <HTML> section for the footer is due to using Microsoft FrontPage 5.0.
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
"Hello, USA? Hi, this is Iran. Umm, we were just wondering, why are you bombing us?
"Oh, like you don't know!"
eh, for rooms larger than a few meters across the walls will be approximately flat.
Your remote will find that "approximate" rounding error and fall behind the couch every time.
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Yep! Just ask the Duke lacrosse team...
Bit of a spelling mistake in there...
s/clocks/cocks/
Yeah, it's silly - the principal's home phone number should have been posted as well.
Oppressing an entire population is never cheap.
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"The Slashdot effect" is bad enough. We can all individually look this information up, but when people start posting it with requisite "tee-hee, let THIS guy know" comments, it's an attempt to incite an electronic flashmobs and that is totally irresponsible, abusive and in the end pointless. Absolutely! This kind of thing is only acceptable if you call to warn the recipient an hour before the "electronic flashbomb" detonates.
Let's hope this tragedy leads to repealing the laws banning firearms on college campuses in VA. After all, one guy with a pistol could've cut his rampage short.
"We returned the General to El Salvador, or maybe Guatemala, it's difficult to tell from 10,000 feet"