Strip Searches, Braces And Historical Hair
July 14, 2008
A school in Arizona needed a Federal Appeals Court to tell them that strip searching a 13 year old girl was excessive. They were looking for Ibuprofin.
The strip search of a 13-year-old Safford school girl to see if she had drugs was unjustified and excessive, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday…
When questioned by school officials, Redding denied bringing pills to school and denied distributing pills to classmates, but consented to a search of her possessions.
When that turned up nothing, she was told to undress and pull her bra to the side and shake it, exposing her breasts, and to pull her underwear away from her crotch, exposing her pubic area. The search produced nothing.
Dental hygiene can save your life!
A teenager’s braces are being credited for possibly saving his life.
Police said Anthony Pittman, 18, of Pontiac is recovering after a bullet hit him in the mouth on Wednesday.Police said a .45-caliber bullet struck Pittman’s braces, which fragmented the bullet.
There’s even a video.
Capitalism 101: Find a need and plug it.
Behind the glass, the curly black clumps looked like a worthless old Brillo pad. But Mr. Reznikoff, 48, said the $500,000 pièce de résistance was something far more precious: a strand of hair from Abraham Lincoln, taken from the 16th president on his deathbed…
He has hair strands from numerous historical figures like George Washington, John F. Kennedy, Napoleon, Beethoven and Chopin. While he enthusiastically advertises his $10 million annual business in stamps, autographs, and Americana in trade catalogs and newspapers, Mr. Reznikoff keeps a low profile when it comes to his beloved hair collection. He doesn’t advertise, sell to the public or buy clippings of living people…What was once a gentleman’s hobby among a few dozen enthusiasts at the turn of the 20th century has evolved into a multimillion-dollar industry, complete with professional dealers and serious quacks. As hair collecting has endured to the modern day, it brings with it the air of august creepiness that surrounds any celebrity-chasing pastime, not to mention its own peculiar set of boundary-issue controversies…
July 15, 2008 at 11:24 pm
[...] Sigmund, Carl, and Alfred tell us about a 13-year-old girl who was strip-searched because authorities feared she might be carrying. . . . ibuprofen. Then they talk about the student whose braces saved his life. Awesome, both. [...]