BY HARRY RING
Close call - We've been thinking about that six-year-old
in Largo, Florida, who was arrested, handcuffed, and taken
to jail after she allegedly disrupted a class where cops
were showing a "crime prevention" video. Lucky she didn't
reach for her waistband. She might have been shot.
How civilized can you get? -Queried on the arrest of the six-year-old, Florida officials said that children under seven are not usually considered capable of committing a crime.
No Joe Camel? - The Ontario, Canada, board of education says it will pick up an extra $500,000 a year by accepting computer screen savers featuring corporate advertising, like McDonald' and Wrigley's.
Probably didn't punch out -Steelworker Gregory Cooper and a co-worker dashed off a work site in Rockville, Maryland, and helped pull 15 people from a burning building. At a commendation ceremony, Cooper's beaming foreman joined him at the podium. Moments before, the foreman had told him he was fired, adding, "Don't say anything about it." Cooper was never told why he was fired.
Seem qualified for a scholarship - The weekly Miami New Times reported two young men were charged with robbery and murder in Boynton Beach and that their motive was to raise money to get into the police academy.
Washington? Ridiculous -Manuel Noriega, Panama's former president, now doing 40 years in a U.S. prison on drug charges, declared in an interview that he had been offered a lighter sentence if he would implicate Fidel Castro in drug smuggling. Prosecutors vigorously denied it.
Order early for next year -For Mother's Day, Neiman Marcus offered a cheesecake designed to look like a straw bonnet. Tasters at the St. Paul Pioneer Press, said it was pretty good, except the "hand-crafted Belgian chocolate topping" tasted like a real hat. Only $150, which is probably only a tad more than the number of grams of fat.
Simple thought from a simple mind - "..we recognize two life-styles. One is marriage and the other is celibacy and there can't be anything in between. And we don't recognize same-sex marriages." -George Carey, Church of England's Archbishop of Canterbury.