Category: People

Here's a message that the Queensland, Australia Maroochydore High School staff voted unanimously to record on their school telephone answering machine. This is the actual answering machine message for the school. This came about because they implemented a policy requiring students and parents to be responsible for their children's absences and missing homework. The school and teachers are being sued by parents who want their children's failing grades changed to passing grades - even though those children were absent 15-30 times during the semester and did not complete enough school work to pass their classes. Which makes me wonder why Canadian schools can't have the same attitude. Click the play button below to listen Maroochydore High School Message

The following story is not for the weak of heart. You've been warned. The one comes from news.cincinnati.com: James Orr put an immediate halt to his criminal trial Wednesday when he squeezed the contents of his colostomy bag onto the table in front of him and ate it. "There was what appeared to be feces on the table and on the floor," assistant Hamilton County prosecutor David Prem said. Prem was prosecuting Orr, 66, for robbery and kidnapping. The trial, without a jury before Common Pleas Court Jud More..ge Ethna Cooper, began last week but continued today. A witness had just taken the stand in the case Wednesday when Norm Aubin, Orr's attorney, said Orr leaned into him and asked if Aubin had anything to eat. A shocked Aubin said…

Leon Lu forgot his backpack containing $20,000 cash at the Vancouver Airport and was lucky enough to have it returned by an honest citizen. This clown was visiting his parents in China and was given $20,000 in cash, 200 crisp Canadian $100 bills, to pay for his school and living costs, placed it in his backpack and promptly left it on a seat at YVR. It's funny but I don't remember my parents ever giving me $20,000 in cash and letting me carry it around in my backpack. So I have two questions for Mr. Lu: 1) What's wrong with a cheque? Some people will kill you for a pack of cigarettes so a bundle of $100 bills might be too much to resist. In future may I suggest a…

Before I post my comments to this blog I usually create an image, humorous or otherwise, that accurately reflects the gist of my latest diatribe. This wasn't necessary when adding another comment regarding Parks Board Commissioner Constance Barnes as my past blog entry image sums this post up quite nicely. Her latest idiocy involves her stint in the Orchard Recovery and Treatment Centre on Bowen Island for alcoholism and her $3,000 interest free loan from city taxpayers to help pay for it. She decided that staying at the centre at a cost of $18,000 was the only way to solve her current problems and sort herself out. Rubbish! As the child of an alcoholic I don't prescribe to the notion that alcoholism is a 'disease' and consider it an addiction…