Gay guide dog
A Thai Spice restaurant in Australia has been ordered to pay a blind man, Ian Jolly, almost $1,400 after employees questioned his guide dog’s sexuality and refused to serve him. With Jolly’s partner’s Australian accent, an employee had apparently misheard that he wanted to bring a “gay dog into the restaurant.” Jolly showed them a card with guide dog facts, but they still refused to let him eat, despite displaying a sign welcoming guide dogs at the restaurant. The employees must write an apology and attend an Equal Opportunity course, but the important part is that equal rights won the day — regardless of the dog’s sexual orientation.
SpongeBob LifesavingPants
A seventh grader from New York recently credited SpongeBob SquarePants, the popular children’s cartoon character, for helping her save a friend. After a classmate started choking on gum, Miriam Starobin successfully used the Heimlich maneuver to save her. Starobin remembered an episode of SpongeBob were he used the Heimlich to save another character from choking on a clarinet. Perhaps children growing up watching so much TV isn’t so bad for them after all.
Hide and ew
A career criminal wanted on drug charges decided that the best way to evade arrest was to hide in a vat of liquefied fecal matter. The 52-year-old convicted felon, who served time for stomping a cab driver to death, was caught when police, searching a barn complex for any signs of him, looked into the poo pit. Only his head was poking up out of it. There’s no remorse to be had for the criminal, but the officer who had to handcuff him definitely had a crappy job.
Boobquakes
After an Iranian cleric blamed women who don’t dress modestly for earthquakes last week, a Purdue University senior decided to scientifically disprove that cleavage causes earthquakes. She used her blog and Facebook, to which 200,000 people responded, to urge women to show a little cleavage on Monday to see if there is a resulting earthquake. The day after the event, Taiwan suffered an earthquake, but the senior is planning to try again to prove the cleric wrong. We’re still not convinced immodesty and earthquakes aren’t related.
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