SNIPPETS

FRIDAY,  JULY 17,  2009

BURGESS HILL, England, July 16 (UPI) -- Parents of children at a British school said young students were traumatized when school staff staged an "alien" abduction of a teacher.  The parents said teachers at Southway Junior School in Burgess Hill, England, terrified students, some as young as 7, by faking a spaceship crash near classrooms and having costumed aliens kidnap a teacher, the Daily Mail reported Thursday.

Just wait.  Some cultural awareness group in Britain will claim that the teachers' actions insulted the alien community and subjected it to ridicule.  Watch for fines.

(AP) A former Colorado Department of Revenue supervisor says love for her ex-boyfriend led her to steal $11 million in unclaimed tax refunds from the state. The ex-boyfriend, Hysear Randell, is on trial in Denver this week on charges of theft, forgery, computer crime and racketeering.

If this had been Obama's federal government, no one would have noticed $11-million.

THURSDAY,  JULY 16,  2009

Headline from a Chinese news service today:  2009 Miss Spain Contest to be held in Mexico.

It's a small world, after all.

PESARO, Italy, July 15 (UPI) -- Italian police said an 88-year-old woman with a history of petty theft was caught attempting to steal a woman's purse at a weekly market in Pesaro.
Authorities said a recent increase in reports of pickpocketing led to a heightened police presence at the market Tuesday, and one of the officers spotted the elderly woman, identified as Filomena Barbetta, lifting a purse out of a woman's bag, the ANSA news agency reported Wednesday.

If this were Obama's America, she could claim disparate impact - being singled out because of age, causing severe emotional distress and reminding us of her historic oppression.  Did I get that right?

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