Oddities and Humor

I once worked on the floor above the Registrar's Office and regularly chatted about these things during the lunch break.

The one that sticks in my mind was a family with the surname Kelly, who seriously wanted to call their baby son Dynamite.

Luckily the law allows the Registrar to refuse such applications.

This one has no humor in it. I am disgusted, in fact.

Students forced to expose underwear for inspection

Jason Wheeler, WFAA 3:29 p.m. CST January 28, 2015
Elementary school students in Gustine, TX were forced to lower their pants for inspection after feces were found on the school gym floor.

GUSTINE, TX — In Gustine, population 457, what happens at the schoolhouse affects nearly everyone. And something happened Monday that is causing a big controversy in this small town.

"I felt uncomfortable, and I didn't want to do it," said 11-year-old Eliza Medina. "I felt like they violated my privacy."

Eliza's mom explained that educators "have been finding poop on the gym floor." She can imagine the frustration, but said even for feces on the floor you don't partially strip search a group of students to find the culprit.

"I was furious... I mean, I was furious," Medina said. "If you can't do your job or you don't know what you're doing, you need to be fired. You shouldn't be here."

Eliza said she tried to protest.

"I said I didn't want to, but I was told I had to because all the kids had to," she said.

Gustine Independent School District Superintendent Ken Baugh acknowledged that making kids drop their drawers goes too far. "That's not appropriate, and we do not condone that. So you would take disciplinary action.

But Baugh said early into the investigation, his understanding is that the children were told to lower their pants just a little.

Eliza Medina insists it was more than that.

"Like... to where your butt is," is how she put it.

And her mother contends that even if it were just a little (which she doesn't think it was), having kids line up and expose their underwear for inspection is simply unacceptable.

"Wrong is wrong," Medina said.

The superintendent is hoping to have his investigation into this incident wrapped up by Wednesday, after he has heard from all parties involved.

He may yet get an earful on Thursday night, though. Some angry parents are already planning to show up at the school board meeting to demand that someone be held accountable.

"Maybe we can find a much better way to solve this," Superintendent Baugh said.
http://www.wfaa.com/story/news/education/2015/01/27/elementary-students-in-gustine-texas-forced-to-lower-their-pants-for-inspection-after-feces-found-on-floor/22435367/

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Dang.

Take 2.

Where can I buy some?

very nice!

The Great Escape

Damned impressive, that.

I had a one time brother in law that could do that.

He should be made famous. I could do something approaching that when I was maybe 9 years old. Maybe.

I never drink anything that company sells.

Ditto - but did y0u know the coke section of the supermarket has the highest turnaround? Followed by pet food and green groceries (in Australia at least).

I don't doubt it for a second. I stopped drinking soft drinks of any variety about 30 years ago. If I wanted to drink carbonated sugar water, I'd make it myself.

I use to drink hot lemon with some sugar or honey when I had a cold.

They sell ginger tea over here for that. I tried it once, but couldn't stomach it. I suppose I was supposed to add sugar or honey to it...derp.