The Weirdness...

Our intranet at work has News of the Weird linked to it's little trivia section. They update it about twice a month with the random weirdness and bone-head stories of 'lives interestingly lived.' I liked reading these when I used to get the paper , and now, like everything else, they're online. I don't know if it makes me feel less a fool or it's interesting to see just how stupid our society can be. Here's some examples:

The Continuing Crisis...Police in Fort Myers, Fla., were called to Royal Palm Exceptional School in April and wound up arresting an 8-year-old boy named Deshawn for punching his female teacher in the face, leaving several bruises. Said Deshawn's grandmother, Dorothy Williams, when interviewed by WBBH-TV: "He gets very upset, and he loves to hit," but "If he was overpowering her that much, I feel like she shouldn't be in that line of work."


America In Decline...One of the Internet's successful Web sites (10 million page views a month, with $500,000 in ads from companies including Verizon, McDonald's and General Motors) is a site that merely reports on what celebrities' babies are wearing, in that so many mothers are apparently obsessed with mimicking those clothing choices for their own tots. A May Wall Street Journal feature said sometimes the site's posting a photo of a celebrity baby incites a nationwide run on what it's wearing.


First Things First...A supervisor at the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services told a Billings Gazette reporter in March that some of his employees were complaining that new computers delivered to the office lacked games like solitaire, hearts and Minesweeper, and that it wasn't fair that employees with older computers still had the games.





"Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped." - Elbert Hubbard