Yup. But whatever you do, there will always be a small group of people, who don't understand a thing, who will do their best to prevent something they don't agree on. The problem is, those people have the most coverage, not 99.9% of the population. =T
Interesting/Weird Stories in the News
Started by blender1184 · 8 Jul 2005 · 1,969 replies
General Discussion
Woman accused of setting gas price protest fires
Thu Jun 5, 7:33 PM ET
A Danville woman faces arson charges after she allegedly set fires at two gas stations and a coffee house, saying she was protesting high gas prices.
The woman, 64, remained Thursday in a Contra Costa jail on $810,000 bail on suspicion of premeditated arson and burglary.
Police say the woman used a fireplace log and a lighter to set fires in the restrooms of an Arco station, a Chevron station and a Starbucks on Wednesday. No structural damage was reported at the locations.
Police later found the woman at a nearby fast food restaurant with eight fireplace logs with her. She told officers that she was behind the fires and said she woke up that morning wanting to do something about high gas prices.
Police say they don't know why she targeted the Starbucks.
Charges have not yet been filed, and it's not clear if the woman has a lawyer in the case.
Thu Jun 5, 7:33 PM ET
A Danville woman faces arson charges after she allegedly set fires at two gas stations and a coffee house, saying she was protesting high gas prices.
The woman, 64, remained Thursday in a Contra Costa jail on $810,000 bail on suspicion of premeditated arson and burglary.
Police say the woman used a fireplace log and a lighter to set fires in the restrooms of an Arco station, a Chevron station and a Starbucks on Wednesday. No structural damage was reported at the locations.
Police later found the woman at a nearby fast food restaurant with eight fireplace logs with her. She told officers that she was behind the fires and said she woke up that morning wanting to do something about high gas prices.
Police say they don't know why she targeted the Starbucks.
Charges have not yet been filed, and it's not clear if the woman has a lawyer in the case.
bmwracer wrote:Woman accused of setting gas price protest fires
Thu Jun 5, 7:33 PM ET
A Danville woman faces arson charges after she allegedly set fires at two gas stations and a coffee house, saying she was protesting high gas prices.
The woman, 64, remained Thursday in a Contra Costa jail on $810,000 bail on suspicion of premeditated arson and burglary.
Police say the woman used a fireplace log and a lighter to set fires in the restrooms of an Arco station, a Chevron station and a Starbucks on Wednesday. No structural damage was reported at the locations.
Police later found the woman at a nearby fast food restaurant with eight fireplace logs with her. She told officers that she was behind the fires and said she woke up that morning wanting to do something about high gas prices.
Police say they don't know why she targeted the Starbucks.
Charges have not yet been filed, and it's not clear if the woman has a lawyer in the case.
I think she was "fired up...ready to go."
:hehe:
Tu_triky wrote:I think she was "fired up...ready to go."
:hehe:
LOL.
I wonder if they were Duraflame logs... I hear they're pretty good. :beaten:
bmwracer wrote:
LOL.
I wonder if they were Duraflame logs... I hear they're pretty good. :beaten:
:hehe: At least she had the good sense to start the fire with logs and not gasoline...it's too expensive to commit arson with.
Tu_triky wrote: :hehe: At least she had the good sense to start the fire with logs and not gasoline...it's too expensive to commit arson with.
Right.
She'll need the money for her bail. :beaten:
bmwracer wrote:Woman accused of setting gas price protest fires
Police say they don't know why she targeted the Starbucks.
They're all part of the same neo-con evil conglomerate, that's why! Or she realized she paid more for 12oz of coffee than a gallon of gas. :mrgreen:
Kijinnmaru wrote:
They're all part of the same neo-con evil conglomerate, that's why! Or she realized she paid more for 12oz of coffee than a gallon of gas. :mrgreen:
:rofl: :rofl: the latter sounds credible to me :mrgreen:
Sorry if I've got the wrong thread, but I just had to post this somewhere. My jaw dropped when I read this article on The Times Online site.
"Japan's 'monster' parents take centre stage
The stage was set, the lights went down and in a suburban Japanese primary school everyone prepared to enjoy a performance of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The only snag was that the entire cast was playing the part of Snow White.
For the audience of menacing mothers and feisty fathers, though, the sight of 25 Snow Whites, no dwarfs and no wicked witch was a triumph: a clear victory for Japan's emerging new class of gMonster Parentsh.
For they had taken on the system and won. After a relentless campaign of bullying, hectoring and nuisance phone calls, the monster parents had cowed the teachers into submission, forcing the school to admit to the injustice of selecting just one girl to play the title role. "
More here -
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article4083278.ece
"Japan's 'monster' parents take centre stage
The stage was set, the lights went down and in a suburban Japanese primary school everyone prepared to enjoy a performance of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The only snag was that the entire cast was playing the part of Snow White.
For the audience of menacing mothers and feisty fathers, though, the sight of 25 Snow Whites, no dwarfs and no wicked witch was a triumph: a clear victory for Japan's emerging new class of gMonster Parentsh.
For they had taken on the system and won. After a relentless campaign of bullying, hectoring and nuisance phone calls, the monster parents had cowed the teachers into submission, forcing the school to admit to the injustice of selecting just one girl to play the title role. "
More here -
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article4083278.ece
Keps wrote:Sorry if I've got the wrong thread, but I just had to post this somewhere. My jaw dropped when I read this article on The Times Online site.So when these kids get out in the real world and things don't work out they way they would like them to, do they have their parents harass somebody until they get their way? Sorry, kids, that ain't how the real world operates. [/list:u]
"Japan's 'monster' parents take centre stage
Keps wrote:Sorry if I've got the wrong thread, but I just had to post this somewhere. My jaw dropped when I read this article on The Times Online site.
"Japan's 'monster' parents take centre stage
The stage was set, the lights went down and in a suburban Japanese primary school everyone prepared to enjoy a performance of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The only snag was that the entire cast was playing the part of Snow White.
For the audience of menacing mothers and feisty fathers, though, the sight of 25 Snow Whites, no dwarfs and no wicked witch was a triumph: a clear victory for Japan's emerging new class of gMonster Parentsh.
For they had taken on the system and won. After a relentless campaign of bullying, hectoring and nuisance phone calls, the monster parents had cowed the teachers into submission, forcing the school to admit to the injustice of selecting just one girl to play the title role. "
More here -
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article4083278.ece
The drama Sweet Home comes to mind... :hehe:
gaijinmark wrote: So when these kids get out in the real world and things don't work out they way they would like them to, do they have their parents harass somebody until they get their way? Sorry, kids, that ain't how the real world operates. [/list:u]
I know! I think this kind of thing can only screw kids up, not help them. :sweat: I can't imagine this kind of thing happening in the UK, thank goodness.
Wynter wrote:
The drama Sweet Home comes to mind... :hehe:
*whoosh* Over my head (never seen that drama, hehe).
NZ judge backs girl over 'embarrassing' name
(CNN) -- A New Zealand judge has made a 9-year-old girl a ward of the court so that her name can be changed from Talula Does the Hula From Hawaii, the country's national news agency reported Thursday.
Family Court Judge Rob Murfitt listed a series of unusual names that New Zealand parents had given their children, and said he was concerned that such strange monikers would create hurdles for them as they grew up.
"It makes a fool of the child and sets her up with a social disability and handicap," the New Zealand Press Association quoted the judge as saying.
Among the names Murfitt cited: twins named Benson and Hedges -- after a brand of cigarettes; Violence; and Number 16 Bus Shelter.
Some parents had named children after six-cylinder Ford cars, the news agency reported.
The Registrar General of Births, Deaths and Marriages said in a statement that it had rejected names including Fish and Chips, Yeah Detroit, Stallion, Twisty Poi -- a staple food in Polynesian cuisine -- and Sex Fruit.A lawyer for Talula Does the Hula From Hawaii said the girl is so embarrassed by her name that friends know her as "K."
Last month, an judge in the U.S. state of Illinois allowed a school bus driver to legally change his first name to "In God" and his last name to "We Trust."
But an appeals court in the state of New Mexico ruled against a man -- named Variable -- who wanted to change his name to a two-word phrase that contains a four-letter expletive and expresses opposition to censorship.
(CNN) -- A New Zealand judge has made a 9-year-old girl a ward of the court so that her name can be changed from Talula Does the Hula From Hawaii, the country's national news agency reported Thursday.
Family Court Judge Rob Murfitt listed a series of unusual names that New Zealand parents had given their children, and said he was concerned that such strange monikers would create hurdles for them as they grew up.
"It makes a fool of the child and sets her up with a social disability and handicap," the New Zealand Press Association quoted the judge as saying.
Among the names Murfitt cited: twins named Benson and Hedges -- after a brand of cigarettes; Violence; and Number 16 Bus Shelter.
Some parents had named children after six-cylinder Ford cars, the news agency reported.
The Registrar General of Births, Deaths and Marriages said in a statement that it had rejected names including Fish and Chips, Yeah Detroit, Stallion, Twisty Poi -- a staple food in Polynesian cuisine -- and Sex Fruit.A lawyer for Talula Does the Hula From Hawaii said the girl is so embarrassed by her name that friends know her as "K."
Last month, an judge in the U.S. state of Illinois allowed a school bus driver to legally change his first name to "In God" and his last name to "We Trust."
But an appeals court in the state of New Mexico ruled against a man -- named Variable -- who wanted to change his name to a two-word phrase that contains a four-letter expletive and expresses opposition to censorship.
Tu_triky wrote:NZ judge backs girl over 'embarrassing' name
(CNN) -- A New Zealand judge has made a 9-year-old girl a ward of the court so that her name can be changed from Talula Does the Hula From Hawaii, the country's national news agency reported Thursday.
Family Court Judge Rob Murfitt listed a series of unusual names that New Zealand parents had given their children, and said he was concerned that such strange monikers would create hurdles for them as they grew up.
"It makes a fool of the child and sets her up with a social disability and handicap," the New Zealand Press Association quoted the judge as saying.
Among the names Murfitt cited: twins named Benson and Hedges -- after a brand of cigarettes; Violence; and Number 16 Bus Shelter.
Some parents had named children after six-cylinder Ford cars, the news agency reported.
The Registrar General of Births, Deaths and Marriages said in a statement that it had rejected names including Fish and Chips, Yeah Detroit, Stallion, Twisty Poi -- a staple food in Polynesian cuisine -- and Sex Fruit.A lawyer for Talula Does the Hula From Hawaii said the girl is so embarrassed by her name that friends know her as "K."
Last month, an judge in the U.S. state of Illinois allowed a school bus driver to legally change his first name to "In God" and his last name to "We Trust."
But an appeals court in the state of New Mexico ruled against a man -- named Variable -- who wanted to change his name to a two-word phrase that contains a four-letter expletive and expresses opposition to censorship.
O jeez, and we thought celebrities were giving their kids weird names. "Stallion"?! Poor guy will forever have to live up to his name. :beaten:
Wynter wrote:
O jeez, and we thought celebrities were giving their kids weird names. "Stallion"?! Poor guy will forever have to live up to his name. :beaten:
:hehe:
Seriously. Those parents must be fugged up in the head.
Tu_triky wrote:
:hehe:
Seriously. Those parents must be fugged up in the head.
Too much of the leaf is a baaaaaad thing.
Wynter wrote:
O jeez, and we thought celebrities were giving their kids weird names. "Stallion"?! Poor guy will forever have to live up to his name. :beaten:
This sorta reminds me of the actor Rider Strong. Sounds more like a porno name. :hehe:
cori wrote:This sorta reminds me of the actor Rider Strong. Sounds more like a porno name. :hehe:
Like "Buck Naked?" :hehe:
bmwracer wrote:
Like "Buck Naked?" :hehe:
Or "Mike Hunt"? :beaten:
cori wrote:Or "Mike Hunt"? :beaten:
I don't recall that name from Seinfeld... :headscratch:
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