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| Koko | Posted
on 20-Dec-02 01:41 PM
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Friday, December 20th, 2002 A Brooklyn private school has suspended two staffers who terrorized eight students Tuesday in a surprise bathroom strip search. Two Concord Baptist Elementary School staffers - apparently enraged over finding feces on a bathroom floor - ordered the boys to drop their pants and bend over so they could inspect them for signs of defecation. One of the staffers was wearing a rubber glove when the search was discovered, WCBS-TV, Channel 2 reported. "This was an exercise of poor judgment in trying to address a problem that has been ongoing throughout the year," said the Rev. Russell Marquis, pastor of youth and families at the Bedford-Stuyvesant school. The unidentified staffers have been suspended indefinitely and without pay while school and police officials investigate the matter, Marquis said. Parents were outraged over the harrowing search, which stopped only after a mother began yelling outside a classroom full of fourth- and fifth-graders. "This is something that's done to criminals, but these are children," said Rose Greenwood, whose 10-year-old son, David, is a student at Concord Baptist. "What were they thinking?" Greenwood, 39, said she arrived at the school at 3:30 p.m. to pick up David, a fifth-grader. She waited for 15 minutes, then grew concerned about his lateness and decided to step inside. She had no idea what she was about to witness. One by one, the boys were being escorted from a classroom to a bathroom. "Mommy, get me out of here," David told his mother when she stormed into the classroom to rescue her son. "They're making us take off our underwear." "In a sense, they took advantage of these kids," said the father of a fourth-grade boy, who asked not to be identified for fear his son will be singled out by teachers. School administrators told students and their parents yesterday not to speak with reporters. The school is connected to Concord Baptist Church of Christ, the largest predominantly black church in the city. "We have to respect the privacy of the children," Marquis said. "We're trying to turn this into a learning experience for our staff, our parents and our students." Greenwood said she was happy her son was a student at Concord Baptist, but now is having second thoughts. "School is supposed to be a safe haven for kids," she said. "Now, my son is feeling uncomfortable coming here, so I think I'm going to start looking for another school for him." |
| Koko | Posted
on 20-Dec-02 01:45 PM
Trucker berserk in road rage incident A trailer trucker furious with the pace of the car in front of him, cut off the vehicle, blocked it and then went amok with a crowbar in the middle of a major highway while shocked witnesses looked on. Veronika Vikan sat in her car, with a two-year-old asleep in the back seat, and watched helplessly as the enraged trucker smashed the front of the vehicle with a metal crowbar, newspaper VG reports. "Luckily I managed to lock the doors before the driver attacked. He tried to enter the car as well," Vikan told VG. Witnesses jotted down the trailer's registration number and local Eidsvoll police were on the case. Vikan was driving 10 kph under the speed limit, following local police recommendation, since the stretch of highway was designated an extreme moose crossing area. The slow pace provoked the truck driver to tailgate and shine his high beams into Vikan's car. When he finally got in front of her, he went berserk. "He stopped his truck in the middle of the road. He got a crowbar out of one of the crates in the car and started hitting my car," Vikan said. He didn't stop until he smashed several lights, destroyed the radiator and crushed the grille. Vikan said that the trucker appeared to be on the verge of trying to smash his way into the car when he suddenly stopped and left. The trucker's employer suspended him immediately, and the driver reportedly admitted his rampage. "He was going to get a NOK 10,000 bonus for a year of safe driving, but that's gone now," his boss said. The employer said that the driver "snapped" because Vikan flashed her high beams at him when he finally passed. Aftenposten English Web Desk Jonathan Tisdall |
| Koko | Posted
on 20-Dec-02 01:46 PM
Trent Lott Resigns Senate Majority Leadership Post Friday, December 20, 2002 WASHINGTON — Mississippi Republican Trent Lott is stepping down as incoming Senate majority leader, but will continue to serve his country as a senator, he announced Friday. "In the interest of pursuing the best possible agenda for the future of our country, I will not seek to remain as majority leader of the United States Senate for the 108th Congress effective Jan. 6, 2003," Lott said in a written statement. "To all those who offered me their friendship, support and prayers, I will be eternally grateful. I will continue to serve the people of Mississippi in the United States Senate." Lott has been vexed by remarks he made two weeks ago at a 100th birthday party for Sen. Strom Thurmond, R-S.C., in which he suggested that the country would have been better off if Thurmond had been elected president in 1948, the year he ran as a segregationist Dixiecrat. Immediately, Lott was congratulated for his decision to step down. "I commend him for his leadership and for his willingness to put the Republican Party, his future and his country's future ahead of him. I look forward to being his colleague in the United States Senate. He has a long and useful life there and I look forward to working with him and I am proud of him for his decision," said Sen.-elect Lamar Alexander of Tennessee. "I think he did the right thing. I think that this time clearly his ability to lead the United States was compromised," said Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas. "I believe Senator Lott to be a good and honorable man, and I support his decision to step down. It was the best decision for his country and for the president he so deeply admires. Senator Lott will continue to play a vital role in the Congress for many years to come," said Sen. Conrad Burns, R-Mont. The White House also thanked Lott for his leadership in the Senate. |
| Koko | Posted
on 20-Dec-02 01:50 PM
Sex Education Program Becomes Tongue-Tied Fri Dec 20,10:44 AM ET Add Oddly Enough - Reuters to My Yahoo! LEANDER, Texas (Reuters) - Teachers in a Texas school district want to be able to answer students' questions about the risks of oral and anal sex but they dare not speak the words in the classroom because of parental objections. Educators in Texas' Leander Independent School District became concerned after students submitted anonymous questions to their health teachers asking if oral and anal intercourse is considered sex, and if there are any health risks from AIDS (news - web sites) and other sexually transmitted diseases. But the teachers are tongue-tied because the school's sex education curriculum does not allow them to answer such questions. "We certainly need to address these things in our curriculum because they are health issues," school district spokesman Bill Britcher told Reuters on Thursday. The district is considering adding discussion of oral and anal sex to the curriculum starting in the 8th grade but the proposal faces opposition. The problem is that some members of a curriculum advisory panel that includes educators, counselors, parents and ministers objected to the use of the words "oral" and "anal." "They just wanted us to be very careful of the terms we used, particularly at the 8th grade level," Britcher said. The panel and school administrators have asked teachers to come up with a way to answer the questions without using the words in question. Britcher described Leander as a "traditionally conservative community." He noted that other neighboring districts in the Austin area allow teachers to use the words oral and anal, but they cannot specifically describe either act |
| Koko | Posted
on 20-Dec-02 01:52 PM
Lopez: 'It's him or me' J.LO CALLS OFF WEDDING Jennifer Lopez has called off her wedding to Ben Affleck - after a row with his best man. The Latino singer was furious when Ben's best friend Matt Damon tried to talk him out of it, claiming she was a "serial bride". J.Lo, who cancelled plans to tie the knot on St Valentine's Day, reportedly warned Affleck: "It's me or him." She told friends: "It feels like there has been three of us in this relationship." The row flared when Damon reminded Affleck that J.Lo had already been married twice. Both marriages quickly collapsed. A source told the Daily Star: "This feud with Matt caused such bad feelings that Ben and Jennifer have decided not to go ahead with the wedding. "They still love each other and want to get married someday, but the Valentine's Day ceremony isn't go to happen. "Jennifer is terrified Matt will poison Ben's love for her." |
| Koko | Posted
on 20-Dec-02 01:53 PM
Penalty shoot-outs raise heart risks Fri Dec 20, 5:20 AM ET LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have found medical evidence of something every football fan already knows -- penalty shoot-outs are literally heart-stoppers. The British Medical Journal said that researchers who studied England's 1998 World Cup football matches found that heart attacks increased by 25 percent when England lost to Argentina after a gripping penalty shoot-out. "These findings support the view that heart attacks can be triggered by emotional upset, such as watching your football team lose an important match -- particularly those in which there is a penalty shoot-out," the journal said in a statement. Researchers from the University of Bristol and University of Birmingham said that football fans would have experienced a fair amount of tension before and during the England-Argentina match -- both because matches between the two countries always produced intense rivalry and it was a shoot-out. The researchers examined hospital admissions for heart attack, stroke, deliberate self-harm and road traffic injuries on the day of and five days after, England's World Cup matches, compared with admissions at the same time in previous and following years and in the month before the tournament. They found that the risk of admission for heart attacks increased by 25 percent on June 30 -- the day of the England-Argentina match -- and the following two days. Admissions were higher among men than women. But no extra admissions were noted for any of the other medical conditions. The researchers suggested that, in the interests of public health, the penalty shoot-out should be abandoned. |
| Koko | Posted
on 20-Dec-02 01:59 PM
HOW TO . . . BE A BINGE DRINKER It Might Kill You, But It Might Make You Stronger by Kathleen Wilson Fact: You're surrounded by binge drinkers.Every couple of years the pointy-headed researchers at Harvard conduct a survey tracking the rise of binge drinking during college years. Officially, binge drinking is defined as the consumption of five or more drinks in a two-hour period for men and four or more in the same time period for women, at least once or twice in two weeks. Of 10,000 students surveyed at 119 colleges in 2001 for a study published in the March 2002 issue of the Journal of American College Health, 44 percent were classified as binge drinkers. While the number may be alarming to some--parents, educators, and addiction counselors--it really doesn't seem all that different from what I see every night at the local bars. The difference, of course, is that what looks cute in youth appears hard, grizzled, and just plain stupid in maturity. If alcoholism runs in your family history, maybe you might want to ignore this partial permission slip, because if you start off binging you'll likely keep binging after graduation, right on through your first couple of jobs, partners, and DUIs. To see the full study, go to www.hsph.harvard.edu/. Fact: Your brain starts dying at 20.This is not an effect of alcohol, but physiology. Twenty is the age when brain cells begin to die off, curbing the thrill-seeking urge first and foremost, remarkably. If you become a binge drinker in the sweet bloom of youth, before your brain alights on its death march, chances are four times more likely that you'll become an alcoholic later in life, whereas if you wait until you're 21, the statistics dwindle considerably. But where's the fun in that? Reading that your brain already has one foot in a bucket and the other on a banana peel should prove motivation enough to get shit-faced every single night like there's no tomorrow. Fact: Leave the fcking "hair of the dog" theory to the dogs.In my 22-year reign as the Queen of Binge Drinking, I never once subscribed to the theory that having a beer in the morning is a cure-all for the previous night's debauchery. Take some fcking vitamins instead or just suffer, you baby. American Lit 101 tells you in so many words "the road to Hell is paved with stuffed dogs" (Bill to Jake in Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises--a book you'll come to hate until you read it again at the mid-point of your life). "Hair of the dog" is for wimps and that's all there is to it. Fact: If you think your girlfriend's cool because she can match you drink for drink, you might be helping her to an early grave.As women strive for equality, drinking can't help but be included. This is all fine so long as the binge drinking stops with graduation. The problem is, it doesn't, because once we're in the work force, women must socialize and bond with co-workers and the common ground for doing so is often set in situations that involve the consumption of alcohol. Because women metabolize alcohol differently and much slower than men, it's no wonder that recent reports show that more and more women are dying from cirrhosis of the liver and pancreatic cancer in their late 30s and early 40s. What a sad statistic that is, given that women are succumbing just as their lives are truly beginning. Fact: Beer bongs are fun, time saving, and risky.If your aim is to get drunk fast, a beer bong (crafted from a funnel-like container and a garden hose) is your best friend. A pint of beer can be consumed relatively taste-free in less than five seconds once you learn to relax, open your throat, breathe through your nose, and swallow at the same time. All this economy of time, though, could set you up for a life-threatening bout of alcohol poisoning, as you never know until it's too late whether or not you've had too much. And don't expect your drunken friends to know either--I remember a bunch of us standing around our friend as he convulsed on the ground after too much beer bonging. Our laughter soon turned to disgust, as we were sure he was a big fat faker. He wasn't. Fact: An open window is not a chair.This fact is not so much about common sense as it is about the roar of laughter and the thud your skull makes as it hits the pavement. The from-the-ass-up part of your body is much heavier than the lower part of your body and when sitting in a windowsill, or atop a balcony railing, holding a plastic cup in one hand means you're going over and down the minute someone cracks a joke. And people will laugh uproariously for a few more minutes until they realize your hilarious back flip was not a party trick. And finally, Fact: Bon Scott and John Bonham died so we'd all remember to turn our friends onto their stomachs when they pass out.When surrounded by tens of thousands of peers, there's absolutely no reason why people should die from choking on their own vomit. Take a second or two to roll that snoring, stinking sod over and you could save a life. |
| Koko | Posted
on 20-Dec-02 02:04 PM
Bat burger prank could land teen in jail The Associated Press JACKSON, Tenn. -- A Lexington teenager faces up to six years behind bars for placing a dead bat on a bun as a joke and giving it to a man who took a bite, thinking it was a burger, police say. The girl, whose identity is being withheld because she is a juvenile, will be charged with violating a new law that prohibits tampering with someone's food and giving it as a gift, according to Lexington Police Investigator Donna Hetherington. The penalty is one to six years in prison and up to a $3,000 fine. If convicted by a juvenile court, she could be confined to a juvenile facility or receive probation. "It appears to be a practical joke that went very bad. She just wasn't using a whole lot of common sense," Hetherington said Thursday. Timothy Gooch, 21, went to a local hospital's emergency room after biting into the bat Tuesday night as he worked at the Movie Gallery. He did not suffer any injury. The bat tested negative for rabies, state Health Department spokeswoman Diane Denton said Thursday. She said a piece of one wing was missing. Gooch said the girl, who worked at a nearby Long John Silver/A&W Root Beer restaurant, originally offered the "burger" to Movie Gallery manager Michelle Spain, who told the girl she was a vegetarian and suggested Gooch might want it. He did and took a bite. "I heard a crunching sound and looked at the sandwich. I saw the wing of a dead bat sticking out of the side of the sandwich where I had tried to take a bite. I asked her if that was a real bat and she nodded yes," Gooch told The Jackson Sun. "I thought it was strange that she got a smirk on her face when I started to bite into the sandwich." Hetherington said the bat had been killed when someone ran over it and that the teen had never seen one before. "She thought this would be funny, but it wasn't," Hetherington said. A&W All-American Food, based in Louisville, Ky., expressed regret for what happened. "While the incident did not involve our food, did not happen on our premises and occurred after the store was closed, we immediately terminated the two employees involved because the lack of judgment was completely unacceptable," Amy Sherwood of Yum! Brands Inc. said in a statement. The second employee was not identified. |
| Koko | Posted
on 20-Dec-02 02:24 PM
I like to turn on and observe the universe. Scientists try to explain that these drugs aren’t for fun as if there’s something wrong with fun.-Ann Shulgin (wife of ecstasy pioneer Alexander) on recreational use of psychedelics. (Independent on Sunday) |
| Koko | Posted
on 20-Dec-02 02:27 PM
Martini Bros: How Dance Music Helped Re-Unify Germany “When the wall came down you could go anywhere. It also changed because Berlin doubled in size overnight. Everybody started squatting houses because there were loads of opportunities to do it and that’s where a complete new scene emerged, on the East German side. “The first clubs playing dance music were illegal venues on the Eastern side so people in the West needed to go there to hear that music. Then people became friends from both sides of the Wall; I think dance music helped more than anything else, certainly for our generation . ” |
| Koko | Posted
on 20-Dec-02 02:28 PM
Everybody Wants to Be a DJ (Or Scaletrix Racer) One in seven British men in their thirties dream of becoming a DJ or alternatively buying a Scaletrix set, according to a survey carried out by Barclaycard (Visa) in January. 14% of the 1000 men surveyed were planning on buying decks, the same proportion thinking about getting Scaletrix or table football game Subbutteo. Two thirds of the 30-somethings surveyed also still went clubbing, with 80% continuing to buy ‘the latest trainers’. (The Standard) |
| Koko | Posted
on 20-Dec-02 02:30 PM
Goat Still Subdued As British Sex Fiend Pleads Guilty An unemployed chef appeared in court in March and pleaded guilty to charges of sexually assaulting a female goat at the Paradise Allotments grazing patch, near Hull (Northern England). According to the News of the World, 23 year old Brit Stephen Hall lasso-ed the goat with his belt and began attacking her, just as a packed commuter train pulled up on an adjacent railway track. Horrified passengers who witnessed the assault immediately called the cops, who rushed to the scene, to catch Mr Hall still having relations with the animal. “I saw the goat the next day- it did not seem too upset but it is difficult to tell,” said investigating officer Dave Crinnion from the British Transport Police. Hall subsequently claimed to be gay and said he’d ‘never done anything like this before’. Vets also added that the goat appeared to have escaped any lasting physical damage though Hall was later sentenced to six months in jail. |
| Koko | Posted
on 20-Dec-02 03:00 PM
“Sexual ambiguity is the Englishman’s heritage: it is what the world expects of him. The question here is not, ‘Is he gay?’ just ‘how gay is he?’ (The Independent on Sunday)--All Englishmen are homosexual, suggests Independent columnist (Ms) Rowan Pelling. |
| Koko | Posted
on 20-Dec-02 03:01 PM
Cats prefer listening to music with fast beats and low tones, according to a study published by Austrian animal psychologists in June. The scientists played a variety of musical styles to a selection of felines for five days and also discovered the cats had natural rhythm. “Music with the right rhythm can help the cat into a state of relaxation,” Hermann Bubna-Littitz told the Observer. “Calm sets in and this encourages feline well-being.” |
| Koko | Posted
on 20-Dec-02 03:04 PM
Transexual Polar Bears: Humans Next? Researchers have discovered over 40 polar bears with both male and female sex organs in the Artic Circle, possibly as a result of toxins in the oceans. The emergence of the polysexual animals could have stark implications for humans, according to Samantha Smith from the World Wildlife Fund. “Those at the top of the food chain are hardest hit (by the toxins),” she told the Evening Standard. “And those are polar bears and humans.” "It seems to be the female bears on Svalbard that are acquiring male genitalia, a penis-like stump,” her colleague Elizabeth Salter told BBC online. "And what's happening to the bears is happening to (sea) gulls in the Arctic, too.” Over 1% of the polar bears have so far changed sex, suggesting millions of women could be at risk of becoming chicks with dicks. |
| Koko | Posted
on 20-Dec-02 03:16 PM
What do you call a black priest Holy Shit!! |
| Koko | Posted
on 20-Dec-02 03:20 PM
A young Chinese couple had just gotten married. It't their wedding night and they are both virgins. The man asks what the woman wants and she says "I would like a 69." To which the man replies "Pork Fried Rice?" |
| Koko | Posted
on 20-Dec-02 03:23 PM
A cowboy is riding on the plains. He comes across an Indian buck naked lying on his back with a hugh errection. Digusted he asked "What in the hell are you doing?" The Indians looked at the shadow of his dick and said "It's 1:0pm." The cowboy rode on. Soon he ran into another Indian. He was lying on his back naked with a hugh errection. The cowboy again asked "What in the hell are you doing"? The Indian looked at the shadow and said "It's now 2:30 pm". The cowboy rode on. Later he came upon third Indian. He was lying on his back buck naked wacking himself off. The cowboy asked "Jesus Christ! What are you doing?" The indian replied "I'm winding my watch." |
| Koko | Posted
on 20-Dec-02 03:26 PM
An Arab diplomat visiting the US for the first time was being wined and dined by the State Department. The Grand Emir was unused to the salt in American foods (French fries, cheeses, salami, anchovies etc.) and was constantly sending his manservant Abdul to fetch him a glass of water. Time and again, Abdul would scamper off and return with a glass of water, but then came the time when he returned empty-handed. "Abdul, you son of an ugly camel, where is my water?" demanded the Grand Emir. "A thousand pardons, Oh Illustrious One," stammered the wretched Abdul, "white man sit on well." |
| Koko | Posted
on 20-Dec-02 03:29 PM
One night a guy takes his girlfriend home. After kissing each other good night at the front door, the guy starts feeling a little horny. With an air of confidence, he leans with his hand against the wall and, smiling, says to her, "Honey, would you give me a blow job?" Horrified, she replies, "Are you mad? My parents will see us!" "Oh come on! Who's gonna see us at this hour?" "No. Can you imagine if we get caught?" "There's nobody around, they're all sleeping!" "No way. It's just too risky!" "Oh please, I love you so much?" "No, no, and no. I love you too, but I just can't!" Please?" "No, no. I just can't." Out of the blue, the light on the stairs goes on, and the girl's sister shows up in her pajamas, hair disheveled, and in a sleepy voice she says: "Dad says to go ahead and give him a blow job, or I can do it. Or if need be, Mom says she can come down herself and do it. But for God's sake tell him to take his hand off the intercom." |