Nice-Transgender student named prom queen
Why-Sandwich and Sword Used to Attack Women
Good-Israel crowns 'Miss Holocaust Survivor'
Wow-High School Puts Itself Up for Sale on eBay
Excuse-Hit-And-Run Driver Gave Cops Ice Cream Alibi
Mayor's sausage costume mistaken for giant penis
Nice-Transgender student named prom queen
TRENTON, Ont. — A transgender student says being named prom queen was the cherry on top of her high school education. “I was really surprised,” Connor Ferguson, an 18-year-old male-to-female transgender student at Trenton High School, said of the win. “It was pretty surreal actually. If I remember correctly my jaw hit the floor and we all started laughing because it was so crazy. I walked up and the crown didn’t fit my hair, so I had to hold it.” Ferguson had an inkling she might get a few votes, but never thought she’d walk away with the crown. “I heard some students talking about it at school, but I thought it was just funny,” she said. “There was so many other girls that could have received it.” Caroline Rolf voted for Ferguson and went with her to the prom. “I voted for Connor because anyone who has been through as much as she has and still exudes so much class and confidence deserves a royal title, and not just on prom night,” Rolf said.
Good-Israel crowns 'Miss Holocaust Survivor'
In what some are calling a macabre contest, 300 women aged 74 to 97 vied for the title of "Miss Holocaust Survivor" in Israel. Fourteen finalists competed in the unusual beauty pageant Thursday in the city of Haifa. Organizers said the event was meant as a celebration of life, and contestants were chosen more for their personal stories of suffering and survival in Nazi ghettos and concentration camps than for their looks, reported the BBC. For some, it's easy to understand why a contest like this would stir controversy in the Jewish state, which was born in the wake of the Holocaust, when hundreds of thousands of people who'd survived the Nazi slaughter took refuge there. Colette Avital -- the head of a Holocaust survivors umbrella organization in Israel and a survivor herself -- told the Associated Press it sounded "macabre" and said dressing up survivors in glamorous clothes for a night was not going to make their lives "more meaningful."
Why-Sandwich and Sword Used to Attack Women
A Florida man has been accused of using a sword and a peanut butter sandwich to threaten three women, one of whom was pregnant. Mark Christopher Miller used a 4-foot long sword to threaten a pregnant woman, and when two other women tried to intervene he threatened one and smeared the other with peanut butter from his sandwich, Lakeland-based newspaper The Leger reported, citing an arrest report. According to the Polk County Sheriff's Office, Miller was arrested Friday after he adversely reacted to a disturbance outside his mobile home. He allegedly approached the three women, sword and sandwich in hand, and “poked” at the 6-month pregnant woman. The woman was able to push the blade away before getting stabbed, the Leger reported.
As Miller was being driven to county jail, police said he chewed out part of the seat padding in their cruiser.
Wow-High School Puts Itself Up for Sale on eBay
Forget magazine drives and candy sales. A cash-strapped high school near Philadelphia hopes to raise money by auctioning itself on eBay.The starting bid of just under $600,000 for The Learning Center in Langhorne, Pa., is designed to offset steep budget cuts. A tongue-in-cheek listing describes the alternative school for at-risk teens as "pre-owned" and "slightly used."The winner won't own the facility, which is part of the Neshaminy School District. But he or she will get a plethora of goodies, including a naming opportunity, a free large pizza, a personalized school coffee mug and the chance to deliver a speech at graduation. Not to mention the satisfaction of "delivering an education to a group of kids who could really use it," according to the ad.Neshaminy officials did not immediately return requests for comment Monday. The 7,000-student district has endured a pair of teacher strikes this year as the school board says it can't afford to meet the union's demands. Learning Center Principal JoAnn Holland says she hopes the auction idea will draw the attention of a wealthy benefactor. Bidding ends Wednesday. "I know it's crazy," Holland said in a statement. "But with the good The Learning Center does, it's crazier not to do it."
Excuse-Hit-And-Run Driver Gave Cops Ice Cream Alibi
JULY 3--An Arkansas driver told cops that she fled the scene of an accident Sunday night because she was concerned that, if she stopped, ice cream she was carrying home would melt, according to police. Flora Burkhart, 58, was heading to her residence around 6 PM when she rear-ended a pickup truck driven by Derek Parker. Burkhart, however, did not stop at the site of the crash on a state highway in Van Buren, a city in the Ozark Mountain foothills. Parker called 911 and decided to follow the hit-and-run driver to her home, where she was subsequently confronted by Van Buren Police Department officers. Asked why she left the accident scene, Burkhart replied, “I left because I did not want my ice cream to melt," according to a police report. Burkhart also claimed that she “didn’t think there was enough damage to the vehicles to call police.” Cops estimated that each car sustained $500 in damages. Cops disagreed and cited her for leaving the scene of an accident and driving too closely to Parker’s vehicle.
What-Mayor's sausage costume mistaken for giant penis as she welcomes Olympic torch
Mad-cap Mayoress Jill Makinson-Sanders was left feeling a right silly sausage when she welcomed the Olympic torch wearing this costume which was mistaken for a giant penis. Unsuspecting Jill, 61, wore the naughty novelty costume to promote the famous Lincolnshire sausage when the Olympic flame came to her sleepy town. Instead of donning her traditional mayoral chain and robes to greet the torch, the councillor dressed up in an 8ft-tall pink costume which was supposed to represent the
great British banger. But stunned residents of Louth gasped in horror on Wednesday as dozens claimed she looked more like a giant phallus. Mum-of-two Sandra Ellington, 38, said: "She probably thought she was being quite fun and quirky - but it backfired a little bit."People couldn't take their eyes off her because it looks so rude - her outfit certainly gained a few titters among the crowd."It's something you'd expect to see on a stag-do - not being worn by a respectable mayor. “She didn't carry the torch but when you saw her running down the street by the torch relay team nearby it really looked like she was wearing something obscene."
