Babysitter Arrested After Toddler Shoots 8-Year-Old

That headline pretty much says it all, doesn't it? Don't let strangers watch your kids . . . especially strangers who either own handguns or just leave them lying around where a 2-year-old can get a hold of them. Why shoot an 8-year-old? Why not? Who would you like to have shot when you were two if you got your hands on a gun? Think about it!
The details are sketchy on the story (the toddler refuses to talk until his mob lawyer can cut a deal with the DA) but needless to say, you're not likely to find another headline like this.

Until at least next week. Hey, this is Florida, we're surpised this doesn't happen every day! At right, the mug shot of the arrested babysitter, Trevaris Brown.

Here's more from the Miami Herald:

Trevaris Brown, 18, charged with child neglect, is free on $7,500 bond. According to police, Brown told Miami Detective Fernando Bosch that he was baby sitting a group of children ranging from 1 to 10 years old Saturday night at 5930 NW First Ave. He admitted ``he left the children home alone and went to the store.'' While away, a 2-year-old got a hold of a gun and shot the girl. She is expected to make a full recovery, police said. It was unclear who the gun belonged to.

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Texas HS Squad Causes Stir After Mock Execution During Pep Rally

How Well Armed Do You Like Your HS Cheerleaders? - Like most schools across the country, Nacogdoches High is both Drug Free and Gun Free as a sign outside the building proudly boasts . . . unless, of course, you're a cheerleader then those kinds of "little details" get thrown out the window. Take, for instance, a recent pep rally at NHS and a skit designed to fire up the fans put on by the cheerleaders. The premise was simple enough (and oft repeated at HS pep rallies across the USA): the school mascot is kidnapped by students of the rival school (played by your JV cheerleaders, of course) and held of ransom. Your varsity cheerleaders ride in to the rescue and free the mascot, assuring that your team will march to victory at Friday night's big game. Oh, we forgot to mention: after freeing the mascot you then force the "kidnappers" to kneel in front of you, pull out your guns and shoot them in the head. After their deaths you throw money into the air (WTF?) and put their corpses in a pile so you dance on their graves! (Tony Soprano would be so proud! Go Fighting Mobsters!) 

We think it may be that last little part that is causing the stir at Nacogdoches HS, although so far no one has been suspended and the administration does not seem to be overly concerned about its young ladies performing mob hits on their rivals. According to NHS principal Nathan "Deadeye" Chaddick, " . . . this was just a simple skit done by our cheerleaders just to promote some school spirit and motivate the football team at a pep rally ... they were doing like a little country, cowboy-type skit." He goes on to compare this friendly teen sports carnage to classic theatre adding, "What do they want us to do with Shakespeare when kids have swords stabbing each other or plays with some shooting? It's the same thing. It's the same little skit. But because these three girls have a personal thing going on against some cheerleaders, they feel they have a right to use this venue for their personal agenda or purpose, and I'm just not going to allow that." The "they" Chadwick is referring to are two students who wrote an editorial in the school newspaper titled "Fearleaders" that was--surprise!--critical of the skit. Chaddick, of course, got to edit the copy and eliminated three whole paragraphs that just happened questioned the administration's support for the skit. (An unedited version of the editorial is supposed to be posted to the Daily Sentinel on Sunday, but their Opinion page is currently on loading correctly. If it did, you might be able to read it here.) 
Now, we don't think these cheerleaders should be kicked out of school or nothin', but we do have to question the decision-making skills of old Deadeye and anyone else at NHS who may have approved this skit beforehand or is not the least bit concerned about it now. (Daily Sentinel) 

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Neiman Marcus Employees, Fired for Having Sex on the Job, Sue Because Security Video of Them "In the Act" Violated Their Privacy

It takes some balls to have sex at work with another employee, especially when the two of you are supposed to be on security detail at a major department store. It takes ones the size of grapefruit to turn around and sue your employer for videotaping you "in the act." Why? Well, it invades your privacy (do you really have any of that where you work) and besides, the manager who set up the hidden camera shared the videotape with several other people AND on a nationwide online forum for security personnel. Okay, I can see where that last part might piss you off JUST a little bit. Which is why Neiman Marcus is getting their asses sued. Here's more from the Dallas Morning News:

Two former security employees at the Neiman Marcus department store in Northbrook, Ill., who were fired last year for engaging in sex at work filed a lawsuit Tuesday alleging they were illegally videotaped. Steven Chalem and Veronica Miranda, identified in the lawsuit as residents of Evanston, Ill., allege they were secretly videotaped by a manager while employed as loss prevention investigators at the store in 2007. They describe themselves as "close friends" who worked together for several years.
The suit, filed in Cook County Circuit Court, alleges that the manager installed a hidden camera in the office and began recording them and other employees. Chalem and Miranda were fired last October "for engaging in sexual activity with each other in the loss prevention office" on two separate occasions, the suit said. Both Chalem and Miranda have been unable to find jobs in the retail loss prevention industry since their firings, the suit said. The plaintiffs asked for damages for violation of Illinois' eavesdropping statute, infliction of emotional distress and other complaints.

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Male Teacher Caught Leering at Schoolgirls While Using Homemade Electrical Sex Toy in Car

Yes, you read that headline correct. Who ever said that all those "shop classes" wouldn't pay off some day, eh?
The good news? It didn't happen in the United States, although this might, uh, "inspire" some of our fine male teachers here to take up the challenge and invent their own homemade electrical sex toys. That's the kind of "can do" spirit this country is known for.
Let's see if we have the details correct: Guy Milford has taught in Clydebank area schools (Scotland) for more than 10 years. Police found him in his car near Clydebank High as hew watched (they use the term leered) as students walked into school. So far, he's just annoying. Then police say they also found a “bizarre” electrical sex toy plugged into his car’s cigarette lighter. And to top things off Milford had his pants down around his hips and his hands on his lap and, okay, I don't need to draw you a picture, do I?
Here's more from the Clydebank Post:

Married dad, Guy Milford — who had worked in schools in the area for 10 years — had the “bizarre” electrical sex toy plugged into his car’s cigarette lighter as he watched pupils going into Clydebank High.

The weirdo 34-year-old was due to be working at Clydemuir Primary, in Dalmuir, on the day of the sickening incident. Cops rumbled Milford near the high school gates at around 8.30am as pupils arrived for classes. Milford later told Dumbarton Sheriff Court he was on his way to work, but the high school is more than a mile away from Clydemuir and he would have had to have taken a significant detour to be there.

Cops were stunned when they discovered the vibrating device on the teacher’s lap as he sat in his clapped out Volkswagon Polo. WPC Alana Innes, 24, a police officer for four years, told Dumbarton Sheriff Court on Friday: “I had never dealt with anything like this before and I was quite shocked. I could not believe it had happened right next to a high school.”
Arresting officer PC Christopher Holmes said: “The car was [initially] directly across the road from the school gates, no more than twenty yards from the entrance.

"When I went to speak to him I could see he was nervous because he was shaking and there were beads of sweat on his forehead.

“He was in the driver’s seat with both hands on his lap, which was unusual, but more unusual was I could see lots of red and green wires poking through his hand and the device was attached to the cigarette lighter.

“His trousers had been pulled down around his hips.”

Milford admitted he had used the device earlier on his journey, whilst driving through the Clyde Tunnel, but insisted he had not been using it outside the school.

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