Licking their wounds
A school football coach from Halsey, Ore. in trouble for licking a bleeding skinned knee of one of his athletes. The coach has already been disciplined for his actions, but now the Oregon Teacher Standards and Practice Commission is looking into another parent complaint regarding repeated inappropriate behavior. Parents also complain that the coach’s actions are threatening to the safety and health of students. The man is still serving as coach, as well as teacher and dean of students at the school.
Man tries to rob cops
A burglar attempted to break into a police dormitory in Japan. The man-who was armed with a knife-asked for cash, but instead realized he was quickly surrounded by police officers. Police reported that the suspect may have meant to rob a railway office next door to the police dormitory but mistook the officer’s similar uniforms for railway workers.
Mice bring down airplane
Tulip growers in the Netherlands have been asked to plant as many of the flowers as they can at the local airport to help with their mouse problem. The tulips are to be planted close to the runway, and officials hope their smell will drive away the vermin, which have started attracting birds and buzzards. Airplane and bird collisions went up by 50 percent from 2003 to 2004, and the mice are blamed for a crash involving a KLM Boeing 737 that skidded off the runway after a bird hit its engine. Officials are also using dog patrols, alarms and tapes of loud shouting noises to scare away the mice.
Wife endures prison sentence
Mariana Schuster, a Romanian woman reported that she remained in her home for 15 years while her husband was in jail. Schuster promised her husband she would remain faithful while he was in jail, and her husband made her sign a legal agreement stating she would remain in the house. He feared that if she left the house, she would be unfaithful. The woman’s sisters-in-law took care of her during the 15 year time period.
Morgue inspires art exhibit
A Mexican artist is causing controversy with her new exhibition. Teresa Margolle’s exhibit features clothes stained with actual human blood. The exhibit, which is currently in France, was inspired by Margolle’s former job at a morgue. The exhibition features clothes worn by corpses. Margolle said she created this exhibit as a testament to the violence in Latin America.
Cops hand out flowers
Police in Russia stopped women drivers intentionally but not to hand out tickets. Instead, the officers handed out flowers to the women in celebration of International Women’s Day. The Deputy Interior Minister said the officers had been ordered to be gallant towards women for the celebration. The officers also did not fine women for minor traffic violations that day.
Police stumble upon sex game
Police in Holland thought they were just doing their job. They were in the middle of trying to stop a kidnapping when they found that they had blundered into an elaborate sex game. People called the police after seeing a young woman being snatched, handcuffed, gagged blindfolded and thrown into the back of a van by three men. Police tracked the suspects in a dramatic chase and eventually stopped the van and forced the men out of it. When the officers untied the woman and removed the gag she scolded the officers stating that she had been trying to set this event up for months and that they had ruined it. The three men were later freed, and police advised the woman that next time she should be kidnapped from the privacy of her own home.