Offbeat
Ouija Board Lesson Spells Trouble for Michigan Elementary School Teacher
A substitute teacher at a Michigan elementary school has been fired after she gave a lesson on the Ouija Board to her class of second graders. The eyebrow-raising incident reportedly occurred last week at Freeman Elementary in the city of Flint. For reasons unexplained, the unnamed teacher showed the youngsters a video on the infamous divination device and promised to bring one of the ‘talking boards’ to class the following day. As one might imagine, the misguided discussion of the proverbial dark arts did not sit well with parents when they learned about the lesson.
Billie Deville Mitchell, the mother of one of the students, told a local TV station that the video was particularly traumatizing for her daughter. “She has not been able to sleep at night,” the mom lamented, “it is the same for me knowing that she is still having reactions to whatever she learned in the classroom.” After Mitchell and other parents took their concerns to the school district, administrators issued a swift response wherein they apologized for the unfortunate incident that, they stressed, was not a part of the official curriculum.
As for the teacher at the center of the strange scandal, she was subsequently dismissed by the company responsible for providing substitute staffing to the school district. Oddly enough, the incident in Flint is not the first time that a Ouija Board has spelled trouble at an elementary school. In March of 2017, a Milwaukee teacher was placed on administrative leave after she used the divination device with her class of kindergartners.
Last of eight escaped bulls captured in Massachusetts
They have rodeos in Massachusetts!!??
Sept. 24 (UPI) — The last of eight bulls that escaped Sunday from a rodeo in Massachusetts was recaptured near the place where the saga began, firefighters said.
The North Attleboro Fire Department said on social media that the bull, one of eight to escape a rodeo at the Emerald Square Mall in North Attleboro, was captured late Monday night.
The bull had been located near the town’s Walmart in the evening Monday, sparking a chase involving the fire department, North Attleboro Police, Attleboro Police, Massachusetts State Police Air Wing, Mass Environmental Police, the New England Rodeo, animal rescue groups and volunteers.
“I have to say I’ve never went out looking for a lost bull. This is one for the books,” Samantha Beckman with Wandering Paws K9 told WBZ-TV.
The bovine took off running from Walmart, leading pursuers on a chase that came to an end on Route 1, near the Emerald Square Mall, where the bull was lassoed and loaded onto a trailer.
The circumstances of the eight bulls’ escape remain under investigation.
Crazy and Strange Products as Advertised on TV
Kush Support
The weight of one massive jug on top of the other has been plaguing big-breasted side sleepers for ages. Or so the makers of this item claim.
Fridge Locker
Contain your lunch and expose your OCD.
The Better Marriage Blanket
Protect yourself from deadly farts with “the same fabric used by the military to protect against chemical weapons.”
The Backup
A bedside gun rack so you can shoot an intruder without hesitating long enough to notice it’s just your girlfriend.
FIR-Real Portable Sauna
Leave a little bit of your ball sweat every place you visit with this traveling torture chamber.
The GoPilot Portable Urinal
This product for the prostate challenged was recently included in a Father’s Day Gift Guide … written by the worst son ever.
Gangnam Style Singing Toothbrush
Hear this maddening tune two times a day for two minutes straight and try not to kill yourself. It’s like Fear Factor.
The Tush Turner
A lazy Suzan for your fat ass that’s guaranteed to make it even fatter.
The UroClub
Douse your friends in urine when you accidentally swing this pee-filled tube instead of your three iron.
The Fat Magnet
Suck the grease—and fun—out of every meal.
Hand Fitness Trainer
Type so hard you break the goddamn keys!
Bigfoot Garden Yeti
A sculpture that ensures a neighbor will never come knocking.
Organic Woombie Baby Swaddle
Finally, a newborn straitjacket!
The Heights of Hollywood celebrities and World leaders
Tall, small, big, short, it makes no difference. Unless of course you are a middle linebacker or a jockey. Despite the trivial nature of this post, there are some surprising revelations here. Never realized Snooky was 4’8″, and Seth Green was 5’4″.
There is a bit of redundancy here, it was necessary to include as many people as possible.
World leaders
Canada’s current Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is 6’2″.
Dozens of Coins Removed from Stomach of Alligator at Nebraska Zoo
Veterinarians at a zoo in Nebraska removed a staggering 70 coins from the stomach of an alligator that managed to scarf down the change that had been tossed into its enclosure by wish-making patrons. Announcing the procedure on their Facebook page, Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium explained that the peculiar predicament was discovered during a routine examination of the ten American alligators that call the facility home. While conducting the check-up, perturbed vets noticed several “metal foreign objects in the stomach” of a particularly popular leucistic alligator dubbed Thibodaux.
Concerned about what the creature could have consumed, workers quickly brought the “iconic resident of the zoo” in for surgery. During what one imagines was a fairly painstaking process wherein Thibodaux was “anesthetized and intubated,” veterinarians carefully removed nearly seven dollars from the animal’s stomach in the form of a whopping 70 coins. Alas, how the alligator wound up eating so many of the objects is no mystery as zoo officials indicated that the change had been haphazardly thrown into the reptile enclosure by patrons who were presumably casting wishes. To that end, the site used Thibodaux’s surprise surgery as a teachable moment to discourage visitors from such misguided behavior.
New Blog
This blog will be coming to an end soon. I have a new blog: markosolaris.blogspot.com. Thanks to everyone for checking in.
Weird and hilarious submissions to Ring’s $1M alien contest revealed
Some of the submissions were highly creative.
People across the country wasted no time in producing some weird, wacky and downright hilarious video clips.Launched back in October as part of the firm’s Halloween celebrations, the competition – which offered a grand prize of $1 million – required participants to capture ‘scientific evidence of extraterrestrials’.
Suffice to say, the ‘evidence’ captured by those taking part was anything but scientific, instead utilizing puppets, silly costumes and crude special effects to entertain and amuse.
Some of the entries looked like they had been put together in around five minutes, while others were quite elaborate and could certainly be in with a shot of winning the prize.
One video showed someone simply hold up two alien toy figures in front of the camera while another saw someone in a costume take control of the house’s owner and use his treat-or-treat bowl as a hat.
“There are so many that I’ve seen that have just been incredibly creative and fun,” said Ring’s chief revenue officer, Mimi Swain.
As for the winning entry – we may have to wait a little longer to see that.
“We have gotten a number of submissions that our expert is reviewing,” said Swain.
You can check out some of the entries below.
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