A Rhode Island high-school sophomore learned about political correctness when he was suspended a week for telling a guidance counselor that a teacher who’d punished him for tardiness was “being gay.”
Chris Carreiro told the Providence Journal he was using “gay” as a synonym for “stupid” or “lame.”
The punishment smarted all the more when Swansea HS officials told him he couldn’t appeal because the infraction was minor. “If there’s no appeals process, it’s like the teachers can never be wrong,” Carreiro said – evidently having absorbed another of life’s lessons.
People in Cupertino, Calif., wondered about the black-haired woman in tight red shorts and a white sports bra trespassing on middle-school campuses.
But when she exposed herself to some of the kids, it was clear she was a he – and he was a registered sex offender.
Jeffery Poe, 43, was busted at his house.
It’s Bob vs. Bob in a battle between New England furniture retailers.
Connecticut-based Bob’s Discount Furniture is suing Maine-based Bob’s Discount Off-Price Superstores over the right to use the name Bob.
A federal judge says both companies can keep their names, but the Connecticut Bob’s is appealing to force the Maine Bob’s to give up the moniker.
A driving drill in which students slowly drove forward and backward went awry when two students’ cars collided, and one suddenly backed into instructor Patricia Erwin, 64, of DeKalb, Ga.
The teacher was pinned under the car for 15 minutes. Erwin was listed in stable condition in a hospital yesterday.
Gay groups in Germany fear a zoo’s penguins might be scared straight.
After watching three pairs of male penguins try to mate with each other, zookeepers in Bremerhaven have decided the penguin guys needed some chick company – bringing a flurry of gay and lesbian protest e-mails and phone calls.
“We don’t know if the three male pairs are really gay or just got together because of a lack of females,” zoo Director Heike Kueck said.