Government

45-Day Sentence for 6-Year-Old Caught With Camping Utensil

Hardened Delaware criminal and recent Cub Scout recruit Zachary Christie faces 45 days in reform school for bringing a camping utensil to school.  School officials decided that the utensil, which combines knife, fork and spoon, violated the district’s “zero-tolerance” policy….



Mock School Robbery Leads to Actual School Lockdown

A high school in Montrose, Michigan, offers what sounds like a pretty cool class in forensic science.  Over the past several years the class has included a surprise event in which people portraying masked gunmen stage a mock robbery, and the…


Terrorist Watch List No Obstacle to Bomb-Buyers, Says GAO

The New York Times reported recently on a Government Accountability Office study finding that people whose names appear on the ginormous and ever-expanding "terrorist watch list" have had little trouble buying guns and explosives.  The GAO found that those on…


City Workers Ordered to Wear Underwear

Thinking about a vacation?  Be sure to consider Brooksville, Florida (pop. 8,000).  In addition to everything else Brooksville has to offer — three city parks, a nine-hole golf course, and "an excellent library" — Brooksville can now assure visitors that…




Mule Drivers Must Have Biometric ID, Says TSA

The Transportation Security Administration, taking a break from its critical shoe-removal and water-bottle-disposal duties, has told the mule-skinners at Hugh Moore Park that they must comply with strict post-9/11 security measures by applying for high-tech biometric Transportation Worker Identification Credentials….


UPDATE: Former SF Official Gets Maximum Despite Brain Claims

Former SF supervisor Ed Jew was sentenced today to 64 months in jail by a judge in SF federal court.  Judge Susan Illston apparently rejected the claim that the defendant had been afflicted by childhood head injuries that first manifested…