Category Archives: Weird

I Hate When That Happens

This is really a horrible story, but it’s also hard not to laugh at it, and be a human:

A German retiree is taking a hospital to court after she went in for a leg operation and got a new @nus instead, the Daily Telegraph is reporting.

Talk about tearing someone a new one. Ah, the jokes just write themselves.

It’s also a lesson that you really need to have an advocate when you go to the hospital, though it’s not clear if it would have helped in this case.

[Afternoon update]

And they’re off:

“When she’s done, she’ll have money coming out of the ‘wazoo.'”

“Sort of reminds me of what is going to happen in the USA next January 20.”

Only “Suspended”?

Why isn’t this guy doing hard time?

Michael Sheridan was stripped of his title as class vice president, barred from attending an honors student dinner and suspended for a day after buying a bag of Skittles from a classmate.

What is the world coming to when people can openly buy and sell candy on a school campus?

I guess his big mistake was paying money for it (you know, like prostitution?):

The policy also prohibits bake sales and other food sales during school hours. The policy does not say anything about students sharing snacks when no money is exchanged.

So, if he’d given it away, things would have been OK. But I have no sympathy. The only way to clean this up is to go after the johns.

You know, I think that someone should write a book about this kind of thing.

[Friday update]

Saved by Mark Levin:

Levin gave out the phone number of the spokesperson for the New Haven school district, but asked his listeners to be civilized about the calling. The civilized part was easy. Getting through was another matter. Within ten minutes of the number’s being given out, the New Haven school district’s phone system crashed, as did its website.

Within an hour of that, the wheels were already in motion to clear Sheridan’s name and restore his and the other student’s good standing.

What kind of conservative is he, anyway, coddling criminals like that?

Only “Suspended”?

Why isn’t this guy doing hard time?

Michael Sheridan was stripped of his title as class vice president, barred from attending an honors student dinner and suspended for a day after buying a bag of Skittles from a classmate.

What is the world coming to when people can openly buy and sell candy on a school campus?

I guess his big mistake was paying money for it (you know, like prostitution?):

The policy also prohibits bake sales and other food sales during school hours. The policy does not say anything about students sharing snacks when no money is exchanged.

So, if he’d given it away, things would have been OK. But I have no sympathy. The only way to clean this up is to go after the johns.

You know, I think that someone should write a book about this kind of thing.

[Friday update]

Saved by Mark Levin:

Levin gave out the phone number of the spokesperson for the New Haven school district, but asked his listeners to be civilized about the calling. The civilized part was easy. Getting through was another matter. Within ten minutes of the number’s being given out, the New Haven school district’s phone system crashed, as did its website.

Within an hour of that, the wheels were already in motion to clear Sheridan’s name and restore his and the other student’s good standing.

What kind of conservative is he, anyway, coddling criminals like that?

Only “Suspended”?

Why isn’t this guy doing hard time?

Michael Sheridan was stripped of his title as class vice president, barred from attending an honors student dinner and suspended for a day after buying a bag of Skittles from a classmate.

What is the world coming to when people can openly buy and sell candy on a school campus?

I guess his big mistake was paying money for it (you know, like prostitution?):

The policy also prohibits bake sales and other food sales during school hours. The policy does not say anything about students sharing snacks when no money is exchanged.

So, if he’d given it away, things would have been OK. But I have no sympathy. The only way to clean this up is to go after the johns.

You know, I think that someone should write a book about this kind of thing.

[Friday update]

Saved by Mark Levin:

Levin gave out the phone number of the spokesperson for the New Haven school district, but asked his listeners to be civilized about the calling. The civilized part was easy. Getting through was another matter. Within ten minutes of the number’s being given out, the New Haven school district’s phone system crashed, as did its website.

Within an hour of that, the wheels were already in motion to clear Sheridan’s name and restore his and the other student’s good standing.

What kind of conservative is he, anyway, coddling criminals like that?

So Many Questions

How and why does a woman sit on a toilet for two years? How does her “boyfriend” take two years to notice that there’s a problem? There’s obviously a lot more to this story–what’s reported here is merely a tease.

[Late evening update]

As usual, Mark Steyn has the last word:

Whipple said investigators planned to present their report Wednesday to the county attorney, who will determine whether any charges should be filed against the woman’s 36-year-old boyfriend.

The boyfriend? What about the bathroom? It’s like when Spitzer broke up NY prostitution rings: They never go after the john.

Is a groan really necessary?