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In this wild and wacky week: Police beat a Pittsburgh Pirates fan, of course it is caught on video and not believed to be connected to any bets placed with police on the outcome of the game.
Two Honolulu robbers barely escape an attempted jewelry store robbery with their lives.
Sippy cups, once thought to hold juice and milk for the wee ones seem to be the glass of choice for mixed drinks at Applebees family restaurants across the country.
After the recent story of a 15 month old Michigan boy who downed his "apple juice" AKA Margarita, then got quite drowsy, three similar incidents surfaced from Applebees in other states, with one cherub having received a Long Island Iced Tea.
If it seems odd that the people pouring the drinks didn’t find a disconnect when readying a Margarita for consumption in a tippy cup, perhaps it is because the cups are used regularly for enthusiastic adult drinkers as a safety precaution? Alternately,it is a case of simple confusion, and there is an adult sipping apple juice from a long stemmed Margarita glass.
There is a considerable brouhaha brewing over an economics professor at Catholic La Salle University in Philadelphia. Students claim that exotic dancers were part of a professor’s extra-credit symposium on business ethics. It coincided with and doubled as his going away party.
To ‘celebrate’ the first shot of the Civil War, a less popular elementary teacher in Norfolk, VA held a slave auction in her 4th grade class – according to race.
A teacher in Norfolk, Va., divided her 4th grade class according to race and held a mock slave auction as part of a lesson on the Civil War. Non-white students were purchased by white students.
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