Karl's Weird News

Local High School Ends ‘Beat The Jew’ Game:

Seven seniors at a Southern California high school were facing disciplinary action for participating in a game called “Beat the Jew” in which losers were subjected to “incineration” or “enslavement,” a school administrator said Friday.

The game involved some students playing the role of Nazis who blindfolded and dropped off other students playing Jews who must find their way back to the campus, said Sherry Johnstone, assistant superintendent of personnel for Desert Sands Unified School District.

It was not immediately clear what either punishment comprised for losing players, she said.

Right out of ‘A Christmas Story:’ Girl’s tongue freezes to a pole

Remember that scene in the movie, “A Christmas Story” where the little boy gets his tongue frozen to a metal pole? Well it happened Monday in Spokane Valley.

It was a reminder to every one of what not to do. A 13-year-old girl stuck her tongue on a metal pole at the old Pratt Elementary in ten degree weather and it froze there.

She did it right after her friend stuck her lip on the pole and it came off. When the tongue froze to the pole, her friend called 911 and firefighters had to come out and pour water on it to get it unstuck.

Captain John Lovell from the Spokane Valley fire department told KREM 2 news, “evidently she hadn’t seen Christmas Story and didn’t believe it would happen, even though her friend had done it right before her so hopefully they learned a lesson here.”

Authorities investigate high school ‘fight club’:

Seven male students at Vinton County High School have been suspended as authorities investigate a “fight club” that featured rumbles in school bathrooms and videos on YouTube.

School officials were tipped to the pre-arranged fights after videos of the brawls were captured on cell phones and posted on YouTube, an Internet site that features videos.

Sheriff Dave Hickey said today that deputies are continuing to investigate to determine if more students are involved. Evidence will be given to the county prosecutor’s office for consideration of potential criminal charges, he said.

None of the students apparently were injured during the series of fights, which apparently began last month, the sheriff said. School officials could not immediately be reached for comment.

Teen pregnant after ‘swimming in pool’

A WOMAN is suing an Egyptian hotel claiming her daughter got pregnant – from using the swimming pool.

Magdalena Kwiatkowska’s 13-year-old returned to Poland from their holiday expecting a baby.

Magdalena believes the teenager conceived from stray sperm after taking a dip in the hotel’s mixed pool.

 She is now seeking compensation from the hotel.

A travel industry source said: “The mother is adamant that her daughter didn’t meet any boys while she was there.

“She is determined to go ahead with the case.”

Allderdice student faces charges for swinging snake:

Pittsburgh police say a high school student will be charged with animal cruelty and theft for swinging a snake around in a biology class.

 Police say the incident occurred Monday at Allderdice High School. Police aren’t identifying the 17-year-old suspect because he’s being charged in juvenile court.

The snake survived and was being treated by a veterinarian.

According to Ebony Pugh, a spokeswoman for Pittsburgh Public Schools, the student removed the snake from its cage and twirled it several times, like a “windmill.”

The teacher ordered the student to put the snake back in its cage and then told the student to go to the office. The school referred the matter to police.

Police nab teen who wet himself in stranger’s home

Waking up to find a strange man asleep on your couch with his wet trousers round his ankles is perhaps not the best way to start the day.

But that was the experience for one homeowner in Texas, who responded to the unwanted intruder by calling police.

Officers arrived and arrested 19-year-old Nathan Ray Jones, who had enjoyed a night on the tiles before entering the house in Cheyenne through an unlocked door.

Meet Elizabeth Frisinger: She lost her virginity and accidentally texted her dad:

Meet Elizabeth (Lizzy) Frisinger 18, isn?t she precious? She is also mind blowingly stupid. Elizabeth, a Senior in Cleveland went on a class trip where she lost her virginity on the beach. Apparently it was ?gr8?.

We know this because young Lizzy was so excited about her conquest she texted her friend, except it wasn?t her friend, she had accidentally texted her dad. Class trip finished. Cue a slap to the forehead and wide spread humiliation on the interwebs.

Man dressed as penis disrupts graduation

A 19-year-old man dressed as a penis was arrested for disturbing a high school graduation today at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center.

Calvin Morett of 337 Pyramid Pine Estates allegedly interrupted the Saratoga Springs High School graduation by marching across SPAC’s stage in an inflatable 6-foot penis costume while diplomas were being given out, Saratoga Springs Police Sgt. Sean Briscoe said.

Morett purchased the full-body costume and sprayed parts of the 5,000 people in the crowd with Silly String, Briscoe said.

Three students accused of plot to blow up Tampa high school

Police arrested three Freedom High School students Thursday after learning of a plan to blow up the school by igniting gas from Bunsen burners in a science lab.

School officials say that plan was unlikely to work, but police say the students’ remarks were reason enough to charge them with felonies. Meanwhile, one boy’s grandmother said the incident has been overblown.

“I don’t know how real the threat was,” said Hillsborough schools spokesman Stephen Hegarty. “We’re in an environment where we have to take these things seriously.”

Cops save teen stuck in mailbox

A teenage boy climbed into a mailbox in Brooklyn yesterday and had to be rescued by police when the large green bin locked behind him, cops and neighbors said.

Rising to the challenge of a dare, the 16-year-old climbed into the box about 4:45 p.m. after his pals had shimmied it open at Avenue W and E. 27th St. in Sheepshead Bay.

Police freed him from the mailbox – used only by the U.S. Postal Service for storage – some 15 minutes later, police said. No charges were leveled against the teenagers.

Student stages robbery to wipe bad grades

A 16-year-old Berlin student was so worried he would have to repeat a year at school because of poor marks he convinced two friends to storm his class and steal the report cards with his bad grades.

“The student probably honestly believed that he could avoid repeating the school year if he made the report cards disappear,” said a spokesman for local police Monday.

Teenager lost in the rainforest survived on TV bushcraft tips:

A SCOTS teenager relied on TV bushcraft techniques to survive two nights in an Australian rainforest after becoming lost while trekking.

William Bliss, 19, from Plockton, ate watercress and kept warm using bracken fronds while waiting to be rescued in Otway Ranges national park in Victoria, South Australia.

He had picked up such knowledge from watching survival expert Ray Mears’ BBC programmes.

Pranksters glue doors shut at school

Forget being glued to their seats: Kids at a suburban San Diego County high school couldn’t even get through their classroom doors Friday. With only a day to go before spring break, vandals plugged locks on all the exterior gates and doors on campus with super-strength adhesive.

Clashes erupt at Paris’ Gare du Nord

Riot police firing tear gas and brandishing batons clashed Tuesday with bands of youths who shattered windows and looted shops at a major Paris train station, and officials said seven people were arrested.

Officers and police dogs charged at groups of marauding youths, some of them wearing hoods, who mingled with commuters and travelers at the Gare du Nord — one of Paris’ most important transport hubs

Teen goes with the floe down the Mississippi

A teenager got an unexpected, terrifying ride down the Mississippi River on a giant slab of ice that broke off as he stood along the shoreline.

Amos Benjamin Cohen, 19, stood frozen with fear as the 6-foot-by-15-foot ice chunk swirled in the water, floating toward shore then drifting back to the middle of the river, witnesses and rescuers said.

“He stood there so still,” like the Statue of Liberty, said Sue Hillberg who spotted him from her mother’s kitchen window.

‘March Badness’ At MSG!

There’s March Madness, and then there’s March Badness.

 A wild melee broke out at a high school basketball game inside Madison Square Garden on Sunday night between high school students, police officers, and others in attendance. The fight then spilled into the streets, and at one point shots were fired, police said.

CBS 2 has exclusive video of hundreds of fans fighting in the stands and of NYPD officers racing through the streets in response to continued violence. Cops reportedly made 21 arrests, though that number could still grow as the details of the melee are finally sorted out.

Incidents Of Students Cutting Selves With Blades Concern School

A growing subculture “Emo” fad where teens cut themselves to express their personal pain has prompted concern from parents of children at a Central Florida school after some reported cutting incidents, according to a Local 6 News report.

The report featured a 12-year-old girl named Lisa, who attends Central Middle School in Melbourne, Fla., who had cuts on her body caused by a razor blade. She said the sight of her own blood brings instant relief.

“What does it feel like when you cut yourself?” Local 6’s Kimberly Houk said. “It feels like my anger is gone,” the 12-year-old said. “I just feel normal again.”

Back in the 80’s, we used to call these kids “Slash Monsters”.  My friends’ girlfriend Sydelle was into this, thus earning herself the moniker “Syd Slasher”.   This behavior is sooo last century…

Ohio students accused of posting fake snow-day notice on school’s website

Two high school students in Trenton, Ohio, face expulsion for allegedly posting a fake snow cancellation announcement on their school district’s Web site. The notice, posted Monday, said school was closed for the day due to winter weather. That confused many parents, since snow was not in the forecast. Some students actually stayed home.

Teen gets hot breakfast tattoo

A BRITISH teenager has had a full English breakfast tattooed onto his head overnight – including bacon, eggs, sausages, beans, and a full set of cutlery. Nineteen-year-old Dayne Gilbey, from Coventry in central England, spent six hours under the needle of tattoo artist Blane Dickinson after answering an add for a willing victim.

Naked student interrupts lunch

A high school lunch period was disrupted Monday by a greased, naked student who ran around screaming and flailing his arms until police twice used a stun gun on him, authorities said.

 Taylor Killian, 18, had rubbed his body with grapeseed oil to keep from being caught, and got up after the first time he was shocked to continue running toward a group of frightened students huddled in a corner at Westerville North High School, Lt. Jeff Gaylor said

Boys escape detention, take train joy ride

Two boys walked out of an unlocked juvenile detention home and took an early morning joy ride on a train — until authorities tracked them down. The boys managed to start up the Hocking Valley Scenic Railway locomotive early Tuesday morning after breaking through a side door into the building that houses the engine, said Sgt. Edward Kurtz of Nelsonville police. No cars were attached to the engine, which usually hauls tourists.

Thief steals beer, donates weed

Police in Arkansas are keen to track down the thief who stole two six-packs of beer from a teacher’s house in the town of Mansfield – but left a bag of marijuana as a gift.

 The dope was left in the same refrigerator that the beer was stolen from, at some point between 1 a.m. and 4 a.m. last Sunday.

Six arrested after brawl at WMS:

A brawl at Woonsocket Middle School on Monday led to the arrest of two parents and four students after one mother drove her daughter to campus to fight a rival, police said.

 Hip-Hop Car Stunt Leaves Two Dead:

“Ghost riding the whip,” a stunt in which a driver gets out of his car and dances around and on top of the slowly moving vehicle to a thumping hip-hop beat, has gotten at least two people killed, led to numerous injuries and alarmed police on the West Coast and beyond.

Teen accidentally shoots self in face

A teenager has been hospitalized with facial injuries caused when a bullet he found fired while held in a vice, the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office reported Wednesday.

The victim, Alex Carman, 15, was taken to Bayfront Medical Center with injuries to the right upper cheek.

Investigators say the Riverridge H.S. student found a 380 bullet on the side of a road, brought it home and put it into a vice. He apparently struck the the primer end of the bullet with a metal screw, causing it to fire.

Patrons Toss Dead Cat Through Drive-Thru

An employee working the drive-through window at a McDonald’s will have a tale to tell. When the worker went to the open window thinking the car pulling up had already ordered, the people in the car threw a dead cat through the window, police said.

Santa dons hardhat after pie attack

Santa Claus was forced to swap his traditional red and white hat for protective headgear after children pelted him with mince pies in Scotland. Santa was hit on the head by pastries thrown from a balcony as he handed out gold chocolate coins at a shopping center in the town of Paisley, near Glasgow, at the weekend.

Student Accused Of Putting Bodily Fluids In Food

A student at Wheaton North High School is accused in a vulgar case of food tampering. Police say he put his bodily fluid into salad dressing in the school cafeteria. CBS 2 news partner The Naperville Sun had the tip on the story. CBS 2’s West Suburban Bureau Chief Mike Puccinelli reports a letter is going home to parents warning about the possible health hazard.