New Jersey - Hair Found In Cop's Sandwich

EVESHAM, N.J. A former cook at a New Jersey restaurant is getting 15 days in jail for adding an unwelcome ingredient to a police officer's bagel sandwich.
Twenty-seven-year-old Ryan Burke admitted putting his own pubic and chest hairs in the sandwich in February 2010. He pleaded guilty to aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer and retaliation for a past official action.
The Courier-Post of Cherry Hill reports a judge sentenced Burke last week to 15 days in prison, to be served on weekends. He's also ordered to serve two years of probation.
Authorities say the Evesham police officer had previously stopped Burke for a traffic violation.

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Go shoot yourself - Middle School Teacher To 6th Grader Student

Lawton Middle School teacher has been disciplined

A teacher at Lawton Middle School in Van Buren County has been disciplined for telling a sixth-grade boy to "go shoot himself," according to the district's superintendent.

"We did have an incident where a 32-year veteran teacher, who has an impeccable record, got frustrated with the class and was trying to quiet it down," said Joseph Trimboli, the Lawton Community Schools superintendent.

"The teacher shared with me that it was a moment of frustration. She was about to swear and she caught herself. She was grasping for words. She was trying to tell the kid to stop this. Instead, she ended up saying what she said."



What she said, Trimboli told 24 Hour News 8, was "you should go shoot yourself."

She also threatened to lock students in a detention room, and slammed the door in frustration, according to the district.

"It definitely was not intended for him to actually go and do this," Trimboli said.

The district did "admonish" the teacher, he added, although it did not suspend her or give her any time out of the classroom.

The district "dealt with (the incident) in accordance with policy," Trimboli said.

But the boy's family believes her punishment should be harsher.

"Teachers know better," said Brian Melson, Nathan Melson's father.

Added his mother, Pam Melson: "If she would have said it to the wrong child, it could have been a real bad tragedy."

The teacher made the comment in early December 2010. The sixth-grader's parents came to him two weeks later with a letter to the school board, he added. Trimboli spoke with the parents at that time and thought the issue was resolved. But then, on Monday of this week, Brian Melson showed up and "demanded" the teacher be fired.

"We don't need that in this community," he said.

At the very least, the Melsons want to see the teacher suspended without pay.

"I can't explain how it makes me feel, that somebody said that to my child," Pam Melson said.

Trimboli offered to move the child out of the teacher's class, he said, but the father refused. The family is talking about rallying, or circulating a petition, calling for the district to do something more.

The teacher -- whose name won't be released by 24 Hour News 8 -- apologized to the class and to the student the day after making the comment. Trimboli said he, too, spoke with the student.

"I told him that sometimes adults do unfortunate things and this was one of them," he said. "I didn't want him to take it personally. The kid seemed OK with it. I think the father just won't let it die.

"I feel bad that any adult would ever make a comment to a kid such as that. You hate to see a 12-year-old -- and they're fragile at that age -- have to hear something like that from an adult."

But, the superintendent said, he also feels bad for the teacher, who Trimboli said has an impeccable record with not a single disciplinary action in her file.

"I know that we've admonished the teacher according to procedure and it's time to move on," he said.

News 8 tried to contact the teacher over the phone and at her home, but has not heard back.

"She's usually fine," Nathan said.

Added Pam Melson: "I know she's a good teacher -- I had her myself."

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Funny And Weird News Quiz Contest

1. The leading candidate for the most bizarre religious news this week goes to:
a) The Southside Bay Christian Church, which performed an exorcism rite on a motorcycle
b) St. Peter's Anglican Church, which gave communion to a dog
c) Blessed Sacrament's Catholic diocese, which voted for "the Holy Ghost" to fill a vacant council chair

2. Emergency responders arriving at the scene of a one-car accident at 3:28 in the morning were surprised when they discovered:
a) The driver of the vehicle was a very large bear
b) The vehicle in question was a motorized sofa
c) That the car was stolen and belonged to one of the paramedics

3. Germans are bracing themselves for a terrifying change this summer as a result of global warming. What is it?
a) The Elbe River is low enough to dredge out unexploded British and American bombs from World War II
b) A "veritable plague" of pasty, low-tipping Belgian tourists
c) Shorter french fries in their fast food industry

4. The most unusual candidacy of the week was announced by a man who:
a) Is running for the presidency of Nigeria ... from his home in Colorado
b) Refuses to put his real name on the ballot, because "Darth Vader" is more eye-catching
c) Is running against a golden retriever named Sampson, who has held the mayoral position since 2002

5. A Canadian man has filed civil suit against authorities for an egregious affront to his civil liberties. Specifically:
a) That local officials had no right to use eminent domain on a Tim Hortons without coffee compensation
b) That the police strip-searched him looking for a concealed pie
c) That the police used his public Facebook postings taunting the police against him

6. A cricket match in Australia was interrupted earlier this week when:
a) A player was struck in the chest by a meteorite
b) Police had to be called after fans threw fake grenades onto the field in protest
c) A curse on the field of play had to be lifted by a team shaman

7. Happy that the streets are now safe again, police in Oklahoma are pleased to announce the capture of one fugitive who was on the run:
a) The man who ran over his own foot after failing to pull an ATM out of the ground
b) The teenager who had been streaking through the local mall after hours
c) The woman who robbed a McDonald's while wearing a girdle on her face

8. Scientists for an advocacy group performed some environmental tests and were surprised to find something unusual:
a) Fish that died from hypoxia as a result of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill were actually healthier than netted fish
b) That we are being exposed to toxins every time we handle ... register receipts
c) According to ice core samples, our air is the cleanest it's been in over 3,800 years

9. The most embarrassing gaffe of the week, and possibly the year, is awarded to:
a) A parenting magazine's newsletter that included child pornography in it
b) The U.S. Postal Service's 225th birthday celebration mailers, which had an RSVP number to an NRA donation line
c) The Comcast programming genius who mistook the "Dora" title "Nana can sing" and instead treated Nickelodeon viewers to "The Rape of Nanking"

10. One woman was surprised to discover that the reason her car was "running rough" the previous week was caused by:
a) Human hair in her engine belts
b) A colony of Japanese hornets in her intake manifold
c) A cheeseburger in her gas tank


Answers
1) B – It's not fair for the dog; a communion wafer does look a lot like a Frisbee
2) A – And now you know the other thing a bear does in the woods
3) C – Only Germany warns the public of french fries not meeting precision-engineered lengths
4) A – And you don't want to know how a Nigerian candidate does his fundraising
5) B – If a naked man offers you a cream pie, you just keep walking, son
6) A – The meteorite was the only interesting and comprehensible thing about the whole match
7) C – Ma'am, you've got a girdle on your face
8) B – Synthetic estrogen + shopping receipts: positive feedback loop?
9) A – There is nothing funny about child porn, you knuckleheads
10) C – Vows never to eat at High Octane Burger ever again

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World's Bizarre Structure - Giant Pin Cushion.

Just take a glance at the relatively tiny man in the bottom left-hand corner of the photograph below to gain a measure of the scale of this bizarre structure that looks like a giant pin cushion.

The 'Seed Cathedral', the intended centrepiece of the United Kingdom Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo, also comes with an equally enormous bill for the British taxpayer.

Costing £25million to build, the 60ft-high cube-like construction is covered by 60,000 quivering, transparent acrylic rods,received investment from eight Government departments and agencies.


It was organised by UK Trade & Investment, a government agency which promotes British companies abroad.

It's purpose is to present a dynamic view of Britain to the outside world and counter persistent Chinese perceptions of a Victorian-era UK.

UKTI chief executive officer Sir Andrew Cahn said: 'The Chinese view of Britain is a rather old-fashioned one; it’s all to do with Britain as being a heritage country, a traditional economy - there’s an awful lot of cobblestones and fog.

'It hopes that updating Chinese preconceptions will attract foreign investors and students to Britain, as well as encourage exports between the two countries.



'We think of Britain as a cutting-edge, forward-looking country.'

So, as Britain faces a national debt of nearly £800billion, the organisers' fingers must be hoping it wows wealthy visitors and doesn't leave us a laughing stock as well as further out of pocket.

The Foreign Office, which oversees UKTI, would not disclose at how much taxpayers' cash had been used to build the Seed Cathedral.

A spokesman for the department told Mail Online tonight that the full details could not be obtained until tomorrow morning.

He said that five corporate sponsors had also invested in the Shanghai project and when asked if the majority of the cash was public money, the spokesman would only say a 'large chunk of it was'

The building was designed by Thomas Heatherwick, who is best known for The B of the Bang sculpture in Manchester, and it was inspired by the UK’s public parks and gardens to meet the Expo’s brief of 'Better City, Better Life'.

He also created the East Beach Cafe in Littlehampton, the Rolling Bridge in London and the Blue Carpet in Newcastle.

He is also a senior fellow and external examiner at the Royal College of Art and a fellow of the Royal Academy.

The World Expo starts later this year and lasts six months.

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Hole in the Wall for Smokers

A German bar owner has got round a smoking ban by cutting holes in the wall so customers can stick their heads out to have a cigarette.

Michael Windisch, owner of the Maltermeister Turm bar and restaurant in Goslar, Lower Saxony, cut three holes next to tables in his restaurant after local authorities introduced the ban on smoking in all eating places.

Customers who want to smoke can stick their heads through the large holes and their hands through the other two so they can have a cigarette. A curtain has been mounted to keep out the cold.

Mr Windisch said that using the "smoking point," customers could put their heads through a large hole and their hands through two smaller side-holes, then legally enjoy a cigarette without having to go outside.

Windisch said, "Now my customers can legally enjoy a cigarette without having to leave the comfort of the restaurant."

Local media have claimed the idea is likely to catch on in other parts of the country where blanket bans in smoking in restaurants are to be introduced from the New Year.

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Swedes lose battle to bathe topless

Swedish women who want to go topless on beaches and in swimming pools have lost their legal battle to strip off.

The case, taken by two women who were barred from baring at a public pool, has been rejected by the country's equality watchdog.

They wanted to be given the right to bathe topless, and claimed women were victims of discrimination.

However, Anne-Marie Bergstrom, the equal opportunities ombudsman, scuppered the plea by dropping this bombshell: 'There is a physical difference between a woman's upper body and that of a man.'

She added: 'There is also a great difference between how people in general perceive men's and women's bodies.

'It is therefore hard to maintain that [the topless women] were in a comparable situation to men who bathed with naked upper bodies.'

The case has sparked widespread debate in Sweden, and led to the formation of the Bara Bradiost, or the Just Breasts campaign.

One of the women who brought the case, 22-year-old Ragnhild Karlsson, said: 'Of course we are disappointed. I think it's sad that society is the way it is - that men don't have to cover their upper bodies but women do.'

Although she rejected the case, the ombudsman maintained it was important that the issue had been raised.

'The case has achieved a lot of attention and it is good that we can have a discussion about unequal rules for the bodies of men and women,' she said.

Despite the setback, Ms Karlsson says the campaign will still continue through 'political means'.

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No sex in space for astronauts!

Astronauts offering etiquette lessons to space tourists have warned them to keep their libidos firmly on the ground, as sex in space could seriously jeopardise missions.

At the International Symposium for Personal Spaceflight in Las Cruces, New Mexico, US, former shuttle astronaut Tom Jones said over queries whether sex in space missions was permissible, that he would "like to leave that for the commercial sector" as "out-of-this-world sex could jeopardise missions".

At the summit astronauts and space doctors gave prospective space tourists advice ranging from the serious, like not looking directly at the Sun, to the not so serious, not hogging prime viewing space at the windows.

Astronauts said since the tourists will not be from among the highly trained, highly accomplished astronaut corps, but average civilians, they needed to learn the basics of space travel.

Issues like cleaning up the toilet after one use, though might sound trivial, was important, for they were all about practicality, they said.

"If you don't take care of your own responsibilities, tension can build up, especially on a long-duration space flight," New Scientist quoted Jones, who is now on the advisory board for Space Adventures, the company that currently books orbital flights for tourists on Russia's Soyuz rocket, as saying.

Tension in such close confines could even lead to the space version of air rage, he said, adding it was something for which space tourism companies will have to develop procedures to deal with.

"This would be a real drag to happen on your space tourism flight. To prevent conflict, tourists should not spend too much time at the windows during their limited time above the Earth," added Jay Buckey, a former astronaut who studies space physiology at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, US.

Buckey said space sickness was a big issue for novice space flyers.

Even highly trained test pilots still get queasy in the new environment of microgravity. Medication will probably be part of the solution, he said.

He said research by NASA scientists on students who flew experiments on the C-9 aircraft that simulates weightlessness, revealed a much lower rate of motion sickness among students who were administered anti-motion sickness drugs.

But the drug they inject to quell space sickness, promethazine – sold under the brand name Phenergan, has its own set of problems. In space, Phenergan has been linked to urinary retention. Four crew-members have had to have catheters inserted into their bladders during spaceflights, Buckey added.

Researchers said tourists should never look directly at the Sun while in space.

"One space tourist had burned his retina on his mission because he had taken pictures of the Sun with a high-magnification lens," said a flight surgeon.

Other practical advice offered, included asking women space tourists to cut their hair short, as it took longer time to wash and dry hair while in space, and use of duct tape while cutting nails so that the nail clippings did not float about in the cabin, causing problem to other passengers.

On a final note, astronauts said, tourists, who wanted to take their drinks aboard the shuttle, should avoid coloured beverages, as liquids form a sphere in the absence of gravity.

"On one of our shuttle flights, a sphere of grape juice splattered against the walls of the cabin, leaving residue for the crew to mop up.

Later, the next shuttle crew was checking out that same orbiter back at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, US. I was embarrassed to find our grape spots six months later were still on the walls and switch panels," Jones said.

"So the lesson for tourists is if you're going to play with your drinks, avoid coloured beverages. It's best to use plain water. Water doesn't colour the cabin," added shuttle astronaut Mario Runco.

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Bono + Oprah = Bonoprah ipod

According to source, Apple is about to launch a new red version of ipod nano. This time it the best of Bono and Oprah, call it Bonoprah ipod. The good news is it cost the same, and with each purchase of this special edition ipod nano red, USD10 will be donated to The Global Fund to help African women and children afflicted with the deadly disease.

I've got no idea why they choose red over other colours, but red is the primary colour in the wheel chart and our human eyes are sensitive towards red colour, which is why red cars are less likely to get involve in an accident, and with the red ipod, you’re likely to lure a robber don't you?

AppleInsider, who's claiming that the rocker was at the Apple Store in Chicago today filming a promo spot with Oprah Winfrey to prepare for the device's debut on her show tomorrow.

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3-Year-Old Boy Buys Car On eBay

Three-year-old Jack Neal loves cars so much that while his mother's back was turned he bought a Barbie-pink Nissan Figaro for nearly $16,000 on eBay. OMG, talk about the convenience of shopping on the Internet, especially on Internet auction sites such as eBay!

"Jack jumped on the chair, (went) straight in, found the page and bought the car."
Unable to read, the youngster likely used the "buy it now" option to make the purchase.

Luckily the youngster didn't buy a brand new Ferrari or Porsche!

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Golden Bra Worth 1.9 Million USD

Korea's Golden Zone has launched a $1.89 million gold bra during a fashion show in Seoul. The gold brassiere named "Phoenix" is decorated with diamonds and is made to hug the body just well.

Bet you girls, would like to have one for sure, but I guess its painful to wear it!?



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First Aid Awareness

Most of us know what a heart attack is, or the many other sudden sickness, but most us don’t know how to help these kind of people when they are in need. The international red cross is raising awarness around World First Aid Day by placed life size realistic decals of a person at the bottom stairwells in Cineplex Odeon Theatres in Toronto.

Its a picture pasted onto the floor, don’t be fool by it. The whole campaign might back fire, imagine someone freak out because of the advertisement, worst case senario would be some doctor or nurse rush like a mad person all the way to help out. It sure is embarrassing.

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