New Jersey bus driver busted for drunk driving with children on board (NY Daily News)
(A group of quick-thinking middle schoolers in New Jersey saved themselves from a brush with death when they whipped out cell phones and reported their boozed-up bus driver was asleep at the wheel, police said. Panicked parents alerted Westampton Middle School officials on Wednesday afternoon hearing their children’s school bus driver was swerving and dozing off behind the wheel, The Courier-Post reported.)
Bus driver, monitor fired for leaving child on bus (Turn To 10)
(A bus company on Thursday fired one of its drivers and a bus monitor for leaving a kindergartner unattended on a school bus in Woonsocket. A school bus was driving on its route Wednesday to Governor Aram J. Pothier Elementary School to drop off children of afternoon kindergarten class. According to Giovanna Donoyan, Woonsocket superintendent of schools, a kindergartner fell asleep and remained on the bus. The bus driver and bus monitor did not check the bus after the children were dropped off at the school.)
NJ Transit tests 'security shields' to prevent attacks on bus drivers (NJ.com)
(A stabbing in Newark that left a bus driver near death. A brick thrown through the windshield of a bus at a nearby location in Newark. Two armed robberies of bus drivers in Camden County. Four violent attacks on NJ Transit bus drivers in less than three months have prompted the agency to hasten existing efforts to safeguard drivers.)
Man says thrown bowling ball hit him in face (AZ Central)
(Police in Niagara Falls are investigating a reported assault with a bowling ball. Authorities tell The Buffalo News that a man told police he was at the Rapids Bowling Alley on Saturday night when two highly intoxicated men in the next lane began arguing. The man said one of them threw a bowling ball at the other. But the ball missed the intended target, bounced off a table and hit the victim in the eye.)
Michael Alan Skopec Called 911 Five Times To Complain About Broken iPhone (Huffington Post)
(An Illinois man was arrested after he allegedly called 911 on five different occasions to report that his iPhone was not working. Police were unclear as to what Michael Alan Skopec, 48, expected them to do about his malfunctioning smartphone, but deputies reported that when they arrived at his home at 237 Swanson Ln. in Kendall County just before 1 a.m. Wednesday, Skopec appeared to be intoxicated, according to The Smoking Gun.)
Americans lose billions waiting for the cable guy (WTOP)
(Who hasn't sat at home for hours, waiting for the cable guy or repairman? Now a company has calculated how much it costs Americans annually to sit around and wait for someone to fix, install or deliver something. The price tag is $37.7 billion a year. A new study by TOA Technologies looks at the cost of waiting at home for both customers and companies.)
Lawsuit vs. school cites masturbation assignment (AZ Central)
(Western Nevada College student Karen Royce has filed a harassment claim against the school, alleging a professor there required students to divulge personal details of their sex lives and assigned them to masturbate. "It's so inappropriate," Royce said. "This is why I'm pursuing it. This needs to change." A college representative says, however, that the assignments were typical for a class of that nature and that students were warned of sensitive material from the outset.)
Swedish pigeons opt for subway (News AU)
(SWEDISH transit authorities are trying to figure out how to disperse a flock of enterprising pigeons who have taken to jumping on the subway for a quick ride to their favorite dining destination. "They behave well while on board and don't seem to be making much of a mess. They also choose to travel later in the day, cleverly avoiding rush hour," Rasmus Sandsten, spokesman for underground operator MTR, told The Local.)
Rebecca Chandler, Raven 'Scarlett' Larrabee, Arrested In Satanic Sex Stabbing (Huffington Post)
(Sex, stabbing and satan are all you need for a bizarre crime story. This one, as reported by WISN, involves a man who traveled from Phoenix to Milwaukee to visit a woman he met online. Once at her apartment, he told police he was tied up and repeatedly stabbed over the course of two days, according to a search warrant. An affidavit, obtained and posted by the Smoking Gun said that police found the unidentified victim bleeding from his neck, arms and back.)
Man run over by model train in back garden (NewsLite)
(A man has been taken to hospital after getting run over by a model train set in his back garden. The unnamed man in his seventies had been sitting on the large-scale model locomotive in Wilmcote, near Stratford when it left the tracks and fell off a garden wall. The OAP train fan was left trapped under the model train for 30 minutes until ambulance crews and firefighters arrived and were able to release him.)
Batman movie slows NJ commuters (ABC)
(Batman is not finding many friends among commuters in New Jersey's largest city. Some riders say filming of "The Dark Knight Rises" last week at Newark's Military Park light rail station doubled their commute. The Star-Ledger of Newark reports Jack May told NJ Transit's board on Wednesday his normal 20-minute ride from Bloomfield took twice as long.)
GCPD black! ‘Batman’ cops spotted in Brooklyn (Brooklyn Paper)
(Look out, NYPD, there’s a new police force in town — and it has much cooler cars. We spotted these monster vehicles from the Gotham City Police Department and SWAT team — presumably some of the fancier set pieces from “The Dark Knight Rises,” the latest installment in the Batman series — parked on Gerry Street between Harrison and Flushing avenues in Williamsburg.)
Texas scientist makes strands of ‘invisibility cloak’ (Yahoo)
(A University of Texas Dallas scientist is working on developing a technology that would delight Harry Potter fans everywhere--an invisibility cloak. Ali Aliev uses carbon nanotubes--which look like pieces of thread--and then heats them up rapidly until the objects beneath them effectively disappear.You can watch the threads disappear as they are heated up in the video below.)
Dakota Fanning’s Perfume Ad Deemed Too Provocative for the U.K. (TIME)
(Dakota Fanning’s baby-faced features have designer Marc Jacobs in trouble in the U.K., where the Advertising Standards Authority banned her new perfume ad for portraying children in a sexual manner. The 17-year-old provocatively poses for Jacobs’ “Oh, Lola!” fragrance in a short dress, holding a bottle of the new scent positioned between her legs.)
Turning Brown Eyes Blue: Why the Idea Feels Off-Color (TIME)
(A California company is touting a new laser procedure that purports to turn brown eyes blue. Even though the technology won't be available in the U.S. for at least three years, the story is still causing a stir. For many, the idea of permanently re-draping the windows to the soul is awfully unsettling. This is partly due to the notion, reiterated by scientists and sentimentalists alike, that our eyes help make us who we are. Eye color is one of those (supposedly) inevitable, immutable features that teachers use in lessons about Punnett squares and genetics: "Do you have a widow's peak? Are your earlobes hanging free from the side of your head? Do you have brown eyes or blue?")
Sex Change Surgery Is Now Tax Deductible (TIME)
(The Internal Revenue Service isn’t going to fight people any longer who want to deduct the cost of gender reassignment surgery from their taxes. According to a so-called acquiescence filed earlier this month, IRS officials notified the Tax Court that it would abide by a 2010 decision that held that some medical expenses from such surgeries could be deducted. It also ends the nearly decade-long battle that Rhiannon O’Donnabhain, who was born male and fathered three children, waged against the IRS to deduct $5,000 in expenses she incurred to bring her anatomy in line with her gender identity. The IRS at first denied her request claiming the procedure was entirely cosmetic.)
What Teen Sex on "Glee" Really Teaches Kids (TIME)
(On Tuesday night, one of television's most recognizable gay characters, Kurt on Glee, lost his virginity. In doing so, he taught a lot of teens about sex. Which is why media watch groups were up in arms. The Parents Television Council (PTC) said the show's "celebrating teen sex constitutes gross recklessness." "Teen sex is now more prevalent on TV than adult sex and Glee is only playing into that trend," said PTC president Tim Winter in a statement in advance of the episode. "Research proves that television is a teen sexual superpeer that can, and likely will, influence a teen's decision to become sexually active.")
Ninth foot washes up on Canada shore — with a twist (MSNBC)
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