Kids will be kids, but schools will be schools, and police also will be police.
When 300 high school students in upstate New York disregarded orders to end a food fight, the administrators called in the cops to help restore order.
Nine police cruisers from three different agencies arrived on the scene to squelch the melee, in which nobody was injured.
Asked by a reporter what was on the menu, the district superintendent said, “Whatever’s on the floor.”
Some middle school students in Connecticut didn’t get off so lucky.
Seven 7th-graders–three girls and four boys–were arrested after a cafeteria food fight left two teachers and a detective with minor injuries. The charges included breach of peace, assault and inciting a riot.
APOLOGY NOT ACCEPTED: Being able to apologize is a virtue. But for one alleged thief in Salt Lake City, it was a ticket to jail.
Peter Shelley, 24, punched a convenience store clerk and stole a pack of cigarettes on June 6. Six days later, Shelley returned to the gas station and apologized to the clerk–twice. The clerk called police, who caught Shelley in his car and arrested him.
BITE ME: A 92-year-old man living in a Himalayan village in India has survived 272 snakebites by following a simple tip–never eat salt.
Amar Singh, who lives in teh remote Narag valley, loves the creatures and, despite being bitten, never hits or kills them.
Instead, he picks up the snakes and deposits them in their jungle homes. Singh received his survival tip more than 50 years ago from a traditional healer of snakebites.
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Edited by RedEye staff (ritaredeye@tribune.com)
