Endagerment
Ice cream trucks sells coke as well…
Now i’m sure some of you have heard of (or seen) variations of this practice many, many times, and to some the idea may even be humorous to a degree. But in reality I find this practice very despicable:
An ice cream truck parked in front of a junior high school was offering up cocaine and marijuana along with the soft serve, police said.
A police search of the vehicle uncovered a loaded pistol along with the drugs, police said Friday after arresting 26-year-old Jermaine Jordan on charges including criminal possession of a weapon near a school and criminal sale of a controlled substance near a school. – [AP]
To me, the most heinous part about this is the possibility that he could have been selling drugs to kids. If an adult decides they want to spend their whole life high on drugs, you know, that is their choice. But I think it is the lowest of the low to hook a kid on any addicting substance. It’s kinda like kicking their feet out from under them before they’ve even started the race. Makes the hackles on the back of my neck stand on end…
Please step out of the shuttle and walk the vapor trail Sir…
It would appear that there may have been cases were we had astronauts piloting space missions with blood alcohol levels in excess of the legal limit…
At least twice, astronauts were allowed to fly after flight surgeons and other astronauts warned they were so drunk they posed a flight-safety risk, an aviation weekly reported Thursday, citing a special panel studying astronaut health. – [Yahoo/AP]
Considering the rather obscene cost of the equipment that our tax precious dollars have been spent constructing, I would have thought that there would be at least as much emphasis placed on an astronauts drinking habits, as there are on the average American Joe Shmoe that gets pulled over for driving under the influence of “one too many”.
The article points out that it hasn’t actually been proved that they actually flew with over the limit BACs, but given the circumstances, I will honestly admit to being very suspicious if guess these guys are not found to have been “piloting under the influence”. They may get off with little more than a slap on the wrist either way. I dunno if legislation even exists that covers DUI in space…
07/28/2007 – UPDATE :
So apparently the study did in fact find that on at least two occasions, astronauts had been allowed to pilot spacecraft while under the influence… Oddly, the article fails to state what penalties will be assessed, or even if there will be any… I guess we shall have to wait and see won’t we…
Report: Astronauts drank before launch – [Yahoo/AP]
Study finds drunk astronauts allowed to fly? – [Yahoo/Reuters]
Stupidity in the nude.
OK, just read an article describing how this lady left 4 young girls, that she was supposed to be taking care of, alone. Just so she could go have some nudie shots taken…
A 20-year-old Syracuse woman who left children in her care to go pose for nude photos is facing several charges of endangering the welfare of a child. – [Yahoo/AP]
You know, I don’t get it. Notwithstanding the heinousness of leaving 4 young girls that were in her care to fend for themselves (especially in this day and age), how exactly was having another man taking nude pictures of her going to help her get back at your ex? First of all, I’m bettin’ there probably ain’t nothin’ there her ex hadn’t seen before. And even if there was, couldn’t it have waited until after she had returned the kids to their parents to do go flaunting it?
Equally baffling to me is this question. Once you have the pictures taken, then what? Mail them to him? Post it on the internet? How, exactly, would that be hurtful to him? If she dumped him, then she’d only be handing him more ammo against her. If he dumped her, it would only justify his actions.
In the long term, wouldn’t either action be more damaging to her than to him? Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face. And ultimately, no matter how she decided to get back at her ex, it still was not worth risking the welfare of innocent children to do so. It would appear that she preceded her rhinoplasty with a lobotomy…
Woman leaves kids to pose nude in woods – [Yahoo/AP]
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