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Weird

School of hard knocks

I thought it was tough when my teachers made me sit in the corner… at least they didn’t have the class beat the snot out of me.



SEAGOVILLE, Texas — Elementary school students say that a teacher made them line up and slap a classmate.


But wait… that’s not all.  Here’s the real insanity:



Parents in the district are shocked by the allegations.


They had me going but the story lost all credibility when it implied the parents were actually paying attention to what their children do in school.

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Idle Weird

He thinks he has too much time on his hands?

Okay, now this is just sad… it’s 1:26am and I’m checking Google.

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Net Weird

It’s like crack… for pranksters

You always hear about people getting scammed, you can’t swing a cat without hitting a little old lady who lost her identity on the Internet.  How often do you ever hear about scammers getting scammed?


Mike pointed me to the hilarious bulletin board discussion chronicling the exploits of community of tech savvy people and what happens when a con artist tries to cheat one of them out of a laptop.


A warning in advance… the thread is really really really long.  You may want to start by reading it to get the feel (it is worth digging in a little to enjoy the group as they feed off each other).  When you get overwhelmed by the volume move over to one of the summary pages to get the Cliff’s Notes version.