Sure, the perfect solution is obviously to have the principal proofread the entire yearbook, every year. What I want to know is WHY are they getting yearbooks in AUGUST! Also look at that line break, really “anal-” is just plain sloppy.
Hitler Quote Printed in High School Yearbook
EASTON, Pa., Aug. 27, 2010 | cbsnews.com
Principal Blames Lack of Oversight for Mistake; Some Students and Parents Say they Don’t Believe Choice was Malicious
(CBS3.com) Students from Easton Area High School are talking about more than just Monday’s first day of class; they’re talking about a quote by Adolf Hitler from the 2010 yearbook.
“It is in fact a quote from Hitler and it was selected from numerous quotes and various sources,” Easton Area High School Principal Michael Koch said.
The quote reads: “And in the last analysis, success is what matters.”
Many outlets have covered this story, but only J-Wire: Jewish Online News from Australia and New Zealand, noted it was a Catholic school and that during judging in an assembly fellow students were chanting “HITLER HITLER” and the kids selected the winner. Thanks J-wire! I want to know what the hell the fourth year student was reading? Mein Kampf?
Random kid in Hitler costume image.
Catholic School apologises for Hitler prize
August 28, 2010 | www.jwire.com.au
A Catholic primary school in the inner-city are a of Perth awarded a prize to a pupil who characterised Adolph Hitler for a book-week dress-up day.
As the judges, who included the school’s principal, were going through the decision-making process, the child dressed as Hitler received chants of “Hitler” from his schoolmates as he was being assessed.
The principal told media that he “took umbrage” to the calls being chants. He said they were part of “the voting process”. He said that other characters’ names were called out during the voting.
The school received complaints from parents some of whom objected to the child wearing a swastika on his uniform.
An apology has been circulated to the parents who were offended and The West Australian reports that Junior schoolteachers will “debrief students in a pastoral way to ensure students understand the significance of their choice of character and the impact it has on other people”.
It is a shame these creative, intelligent, young men fired shots at the police and then died in a shootout. Bank robbery is a crime, no matter if Santa Claus, a Leprechaun or Charles Manson is the perp. Shooting at the police is bad and will get you killed, on the spot or perhaps later after a stint on death row.
I stumbled onto the story of Cotton and Skinner while researching a leprechaun sighting. Ha ha ha Leprechaun robs bank! That tangent lead me to Santa robs bank and Darth Vader robs banks.
I was shocked to discover Cotton and Skinner were the Leprechaun AND Santa Claus bank robbers. The story got deeper and sadder as facts revealed that they fired shots while fleeing the Leprechaun heist and died after a chase and a shootout.
Below are links to video of their story, with comments from close friends as well as a horror film that Cotton helped make.
In this undated photo provided by Gallatin Police Department, David Christopher Cotton is shown. Police have linked a deadly St. Patrick's Day bank robbery by a man in a leprechaun costume with a Christmastime bank holdup by a man in a Santa suit. Police on Thursday, March 18, 2010 said the two suspects who died after a shootout with Gallatin police were Cotton of Brentwood and Jonathan Ryan Skinner, a Western Kentucky University student. Both were 20 years old. (AP Photo/Gallatin Police Department)
In this undated photo provided by Gallatin Police Department, Jonathan Ryan Skinner is shown. Police have linked a deadly St. Patrick's Day bank robbery by a man in a leprechaun costume with a Christmastime bank holdup by a man in a Santa suit. Police on Thursday, March 18, 2010 said the two suspects who died after a shootout with Gallatin police were David Christopher Cotton of Brentwood and Skinner, a Western Kentucky University student. Both were 20 years old. (AP Photo/Gallatin Police Department)
In this image made from surveillance video provided by Gallatin Police Department, David Christopher Cotton, dressed as a leprechaun, is seen during a robbery of First State Bank in Gallatin, Tenn., Wednesday, March 17, 2010. Police have linked a deadly St. Patrick's Day bank robbery by a man in a leprechaun costume with a Christmastime bank holdup by a man in a Santa suit. Police on Thursday, March 18, 2010 said the two suspects who died after a shootout with Gallatin police were David Christopher Cotton of Brentwood and Jonathan Ryan Skinner, a Western Kentucky University student. Both were 20 years old. (AP Photo/Gallatin Police Department)
Brentwood HS Grads Killed In Police Shootout
Families Remember Sons, Not Costumed Robbers
March 19, 2010 | www.wsmv.com
GALLATIN, Tenn. — The man who staged a St. Patrick’s Day bank robbery in a leprechaun costume and died during a police shootout also held up a bank three days before Christmas in a Santa suit, police said Thursday.
Investigators in the Nashville suburb of Gallatin said information from the FBI linked David Christopher Cotton, 20, of Brentwood to the December robbery.
The last footage of Cotton and Skinner is video from the dashboard camera of a Gallatin police vehicle. But that’s unlikely what friends and family will remember most.
The two men were both 20 years old and graduates of Brentwood High School. Skinner was a junior at Western Kentucky University, majoring in meteorology. He had an internship at a Nashville television station last year.
Things are tough all over. Santa needed cash in Tennessee to “pay his elves.” Since that heist was so successful a few months later the same lads dressed as Leprechauns to rob a bank. The luck of the Irish was not with them and they met a bad end. After the jump are more photos and a story about the Santa robbery.
This Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2009 image made from video released by the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department shows a man dressed as Santa robbing the Sun Trust Bank in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Metropolitan Nashville Police Department)
GALLATIN, Tenn. – The man who staged a St. Patrick’s Day bank robbery in a leprechaun costume and died during a police shootout also held up a bank three days before Christmas in a Santa suit, police said Thursday.
Investigators in the Nashville suburb of Gallatin said information from the FBI linked David Christopher Cotton, 20, of Brentwood to the December robbery.
FBI Supervisor Special Agent Scott Augenbaum told The Associated Press that investigators found a Santa suit at Cotton’s home, and that the suspect made similar comments during both robberies.
Lately bank robbers have been using more creative disguises than just a wig and glasses. In this story, Darth Vader needs cash.
Suffolk County Police Major Case detectives are investigating the robbery of a Chase bank branch in Setauket by a man wearing a Darth Vader mask and a cape. A man entered the bank, located at 4080 Route 347, at 11:30 a.m. today, displayed a gun and demanded cash. The teller complied with the robbers demands and gave him money from the drawer. The man fled eastbound through the parking lot. The man is between 6 feet and 6 feet 2 inches tall. He was wearing a Darth Vader mask, a blue cape and camouflage pants.
Suffolk County Police Major Case detectives are investigating the robbery of a Chase bank branch in Setauket by a man wearing a Darth Vader mask and a cape. A man entered the bank, located at 4080 Route 347, at 11:30 a.m. today, displayed a gun and demanded cash. The teller complied with the robbers demands and gave him money from the drawer. The man fled eastbound through the parking lot. The man is between 6 feet and 6 feet 2 inches tall. He was wearing a Darth Vader mask, a blue cape and camouflage pants.
Man wearing Darth Vader mask and cape robs Long Island bank with gun, shoves customer to floor
BY John Lauinger | DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER | www.nydailynews.com | July 23rd 2010
A lot of robbers use force. This one used the Force.
A bandit decked out in a Darth Vader costume strolled into a Long Island bank on Thursday – and walked out with a wad of cash.
The villain looked ready for Halloween, wearing the “Star Wars” scoundrel’s signature mask and sweeping black cape.
Hernando man run over by own truck after his dog puts it in gear
Joel Anderson, Times Staff Writer | Wednesday, June 23, 2010 | www.tampabay.com
RIDGE MANOR — Searching for oil leaks underneath his pickup truck, Christopher Bishop placed his Ford F-150 in neutral and left the driver’s door open.
Unwittingly, Bishop also left himself vulnerable to his rambunctious bulldog, Tassey.
According to a Hernando County Sheriff’s Office report, Tassey hopped into the truck and jumped around in the front seat, knocking it into gear and causing it to roll over the left side of Bishop’s body.
Bishop, 43, was transported to Pasco Regional Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Men accused of beating Porky Pig at theme park
www.wafb | Jul 16, 2010 11:46 AM
GURNEE, Ill. (AP) – Police said authorities at Six Flags Great America ejected two off-duty employees from the theme park after they allegedly attacked a female colleague dressed as “Porky Pig.” Gurnee Police Sgt. Jon Ward says two young men took a photo with Porky on Monday afternoon, and then punched the mascot in the head 10 to 15 times.
Ward said park security detained the men until police arrived. He said the men wereissued local ordinance citations for battery.
He said the suspects denied the attack, but witnesses confirmed the story.
The 24-year-old woman inside the mascot costume suffered headaches and a stiff neck.
Before the jump this post is SFW. After the jump NSFW.
Kathy Griffin did a great job drumming up publicity for herself and public awareness of the simple, safe, life saving pap smear test recently.She also got scads of publicity of herself by getting vajazzled before her public pap. More gratuitous, and graphic vajazzle pics after jump.
Click here and here for previous vjazzle posts, and I’ll include this alternate spelling, too – vagazzle.
Kathy Griffin: Who Wants to See Her Vajazzled Hoo-Ha?
Apr. 15, 2010 | by Marc Malkin | eonline.com
Kathy Griffin is hoping to do for Pap smears what Katie Couric did for colonoscopies.
And taking a page right out of the newswoman’s handbook, Griffin will televise—yes, televise—herself undergoing the cancer screening test.
She’ll show it on her hit Bravo series, My Life on the D-List because, well, she couldn’t get a Couric-esque outlet to do it…
Tila Tequila did not do a good job of handling the unruly crowd at The Gathering of the Juggalos, an Insane Clown Posse event. The crowd pelted her with a variety of things that according to various sources may have included, stone, rocks, “stone rocks,” beer bottles, water balloons filled with urine, batteries, feces, various liquids, firecrackers and after she had taken off her shirt at least one hoodie or jacket.
The crowd then chased her offstage, broke out the windows of the trailer where she sought refuge then broke out the windows of the SUV she escaped in.
At first it seems funny. Ms Tequilla is a nebulous celebrity at best and her music skills seem weak and a poor fit for “outsider music” event The Gathering. But violence of this magnitude is not good.
According to some sources, the attack was premeditated by event organizers via TWEET. Classy guys.
Tila Tequila suffers cuts, but escapes juggalos attack
By Alan Duke | CNN | August 15, 2010
(CNN) — Reality TV star Tila Tequila suffered facial cuts when she was pelted with rocks and bottles while performing at a music festival in Illinois early Saturday, according to a witness and a law enforcement official.
“She’s pretty cut up,” said a performer who saw the violence at the “Gathering of the Juggalos” in rural Hardin County, Illinois. The witness asked not to be identified so that he does not anger the juggalos.
Tequila, a Playboy model who also sings, posted a Twitter message Saturday, saying she would sue the festival, which is organized for fans of the hip-hop group Insane Clown Posse.
“Pretty soon, the owners who run the juggalos will be bankrupt,” she tweeted.
The fans are mostly young people who sometimes wear clown make up and are referred to as juggalos and juggalettes.
Festival organizers did not immediately respond to CNN requests for a response.
Kings Of Leon Concert Cut By Pigeon Poop
www.billboard.com | by Jessica Letkemann | July 24, 2010 6:21 EDT
Hold the Hitchcock jokes. Kings Of Leon had to cut short its concert at St. Louis’ Verizon Amphitheater last night (July 23) after a flock of pigeons living in the venue’s rafters unmercilessly divebombed the band with poop.
In an attempt to avoid dissapointing fans, the Followill guys had decided to go on with the show even after openers The Postelles and the Stills returned from the stage covered in pigeon excrement.
“We couldn’t believe what The Postelles and The Stills looked like after their sets,” said Jared Followill in a statement released by the band. “We didn’t want to cancel the show, so we went for it. We tried to play. It was ridiculous.” Kings of Leon made it through three songs before some of the poop landed near the bassist’s mouth and the band decided the pigeon hazard had grown too extreme to finish the show.
Live Nation has already announced that St. Louis Kings of Leon concertgoers may get the price of their tickets refunded at the point of purchase beginning on July 26.
The band continues its tour tonight in Chicago as planned, pigeons permitting.
Air steward Steven Slater shot to notoriety and fame after recently quitting his job with amplified four letter words and an exit on the emergency slide while carrying 2 beers.
While this story is heavily covered, it’s difficult to get a complete time line of events and background on Mr Slater. I’ve cobbled together the following story using a variety of internet sources, newspapers, networks, blogs of eyewitnesses and social networking posts made by Slater prior to his incident.
There are several “video recreations” of the events online but none are accurate when compared to the story the sources tell.
JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater after being released from jail in the Bronx on Tuesday night. Heckman for NY Daily News
video of his release from custody after posting bail.
Steven Slater, who is 37 or 38 years old began working as an air steward at age 19. His father was a pilot for American Airlines, and died more than a decade ago. His mother Diane Slater of California, currently has lung cancer.
He had enthusiasm for his work, posting on MySpace page under the moniker NYCFLYER “My airline affiliation allows me amazing travel privileges. And I love to max it out with trips around the world, sometimes on a moment’s notice! Let’s go!”
This March in a series of posts to online forum Airliners.net a user, Skyliner747, who appears to be Slater took a swipe at passengers who try to bring on too many bags. “I hate to be a bag nazi when i work a flight, but I feel if I am not, then I am letting down all those who cooperate and [try] to help out as well, I am frustrated with many of them for their unrealistic approach regarding carry-ons.”
His attorney Howard Turman said Slater was personally affected by the events of TWA Flight 800 and the September 11 attacks. The lawyer pointed out that Slater was scheduled to work on the return voyage of Flight 800 and had lost a lot of friends from the disaster.
ROUGH TIME LINE
-Slater is an air steward on JetBlue Airways Flight 1052 from Pittsburgh to New York City’s John F. Kennedy International Airport August 9, 2010.
-Mr Slater’s attorney, Howard Turman, said his client had been drawn into a fight between two female passengers over space in the overhead bins as the Pittsburgh-to-New York flight was awaiting takeoff. Somehow, Mr Slater was hit in the head, Mr Turman said.
-Passengers report turbulence during the flight was a bit more intense than typical, but nothing to be alarmed over.
-JetBlue Flight 1052 landed at Kennedy Airport in New York around 11:45am EDT
-A women who had been asked to gate-check her bag was reportedly furious that it wasn’t immediately available.
This post is similar to both those posts. These appear to also be shots by Mr Netherland, but in addition to the beautiful dogs, this post has proud, and often matching owners/groomers. I found these pics at various sites on the interweb and cannot credit them properly.
