Thursday, January 15, 2004

 

News across the country ...

From The Associated Press:

Bad Spelling Leads Fla. Cops to Suspect

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) -- A suspect in a series of bank robberies was done in by his own bad spelling, police said.

Robert C. Whitney's consistently confused the words "dye" and "die" in robbery notes given to bank tellers, police said.

A note used in the Gainesville robbery read "If a die pack blows, so do you," said police Sgt. Keith Kameg.

The same wording had been used on notes in two Volusia County robberies, he said.

Mont. Man Convicted for Yelling at Teens

HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- A rural Montana man says he was upset with a carful of teens who played their music too loud - but he was the one punished for turning the volume up.

The Montana Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld Allison Chapman's disorderly conduct conviction for yelling at the teens to get out of town.

Four Accused of Taping Student to Toilet

JONESBOROUGH, Tenn. (AP) -- Four wrestlers at David Crockett High School are expected to be disciplined after taping a 14-year-old boy to a toilet seat, taking a picture and posting it around the school.

The boy's mother, Linda Clark, said the hazing incident happened two weeks ago, but nothing was done about it.

"I think it is a shame and a disgrace that my son was humiliated like this and it was unpunished," Clark said.

Clark said her daughter took one of the photos to Crockett principal Henry Marable around the time of the incident, but nothing was done. Clark went to the school Monday and confronted Marable.

Marable said one of the boys was not in school on Tuesday, and he wanted to get all four together before handing down any discipline.

Washington County Director of Schools Grant Rowland said a student typically would be suspended 10 days for this type of offense.

"The whole thing is completely ridiculous," Rowland said.

~~ Looks to me as if some people watched The Breakfast Club over Christmas break.

posted by Anne 1/15/2004 05:38:00 AM