This news is really far out, but it happened. A 10-year-old Hilton Head Island International Baccalaureate Elementary School boy has been suspended from school for carrying a broken pencil sharpener in his supply box.
You have dumb and then you have dumber. This classifies as the latter. Some Texan house burned to the ground (luckily no one was hurt) because authorities had turned of the hydrants so that terrorists could not poison the water supply.
According to authorities fire hydrants had been turned off since 9/11 2001 to prevent vandalism and terrorism.
In Britain local councils are recruiting unpaid environmental volunteers. These volunteers main tasks are to report anyone who drops litter, fails to recycle their rubbish properly, or who allows their dog to foul the streets. They are encouraged to “snoop” on their friends and neighbors.

The Public Profiler site plots eight million last names using data from electoral rolls and phone directories as well as covering 300 million people in 26 countries, showing the origins of names and where families have moved to. It also contains five million forenames most closely associated with different surnames and lists the top regions and cities for each surname.
According to figures calculated by the BBC. The U.K. government has lost the personal information of up to four million of its citizens in one year alone. But the thing is, it is getting worse, not better.
Police arrested some climate protesters during a series of raids in Kent, UK and confiscated their “criminal” equipments” [knives, chisels and bolt cutters] as well a War On Terror board game, because they said the balaclava included in the set could be used in a criminal act.
Gold is still precious, don’t get me wrong, but recent price plunges in its market suggest that the economy might not be as bad as we think.
Yes we are experiencing bad housing times but production was up 0.2% in July and now with gold taking a plunge and gas prices nearly lower than $110 a barrel things are not looking so good for those who jumped into this market.

This Irish person in south Belfast seems to be living in the 60s, when he advertised his house for rent with a sign which said it was “not available to any foreigners”.
The man who had advertised the house for rent said he had experienced problems in the past when a foreign tenant was intimidated.