Loading ...A teacher at Holme Elementary School in Philadelphia, Penn.,reported something missing, so school officials searched the belongings of several students. They didn’t find the item, but they found contraband; Porsche Brown, 10, was pulled out of class, handcuffed, and taken to the police station. Her offense? She had scissors in her book bag. School officials insist they were required to call the police since state law requires zero tolerance for “weapons” on campus, but acknowledged the girl had not threatened anyone. Police released the girl without charging her with any crime, but school officials suspended her for 5 days pending a hearing. “My daughter cried and cried,” said her mother, Rose Jackson. Later, she said, the girl pointed out, “Mom, we use scissors in school.”
A spokesman for France’s Alstom Chantiers, the company that supplied the Queen Mary II cruise liner with its furniture, has admitted it is having to replace many of the chairs on the luxury liner because they’re breaking under the weight of fat passengers. “There are some problems with the chairs because some of our passengers are heavier than we imagined,” the spokesman says. “It’s not an English problem,” he hastened to add, since the QMII is a British ship. “It’s probably more American.” Meanwhile, a study by Australia’s University of Adelaide has found that the average Australian is heavier than the average American. They found the average Aussie woman wears size 16 and weighs 8 kg (17.6 lbs) more than American women, and the average Aussie man is 3 kg (6.6 lbs) heavier than American men. A doctor for the Australian Medical Association says “we are eating ourselves to death,” but University of Adelade Prof. Maciej Henneberg says the “few kilos” of weight is “not a major concern.” [What Do YOU Think? Comment on this Post!] [Testify!]
