So if I’m fat I get more sex and can skip school? Load up the fried twinkies! This can not be true can it?

Obese elementary schoolchildren miss a couple more school days on average than their normal-weight classmates, according to a study that says being fat is a better predictor for absenteeism than any other factor.

Researchers said their results suggest that childhood obesity, in addition to serious medical issues, can lead to a plethora of additional problems down the road.

“It’s clear in all the literature that the more days of school you miss, it really sets you up for such negative outcomes: drugs and AIDS and (teen) pregnancy,” said Andrew B. Geier, a doctoral candidate at the University of Pennsylvania and lead author of the study released Friday.

Of 180 school days, researchers found that on average the normal weight students missed 10.1 days, overweight kids missed 10.9 days and obese children missed 12.2 days. For reasons that aren’t clear, underweight children had the fewest absences — 7.5 on average.

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Ive posted so many of these cases now. She was just teaching him how to stick that landing!! I would still hit it. Twice.

A former area cheerleading coach has been charged with taking indecent liberties with a minor. Tammie Fleming, 37, was arrested last Wednesday.

Powhatan authorities say she worked at Dominion Cheer and Tumble on Sommerville Court in Midlothian as a cheerleading coach when she had an intimate relationship with a 17-year old student.

Authorities say the relationship between Fleming and the boy had been ongoing for several months.

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Sounds a little fishy to me… What was the insurance policy???

Fendley was trying to start the mower in the garage of his two-story brick home in this Atlanta suburb when the machine burst into flames. Before he could extinguish the fire, it had spread through the garage.

Then his wife tried to toss a can of gasoline out a window as the blaze spread, but she missed, spreading the fuel “everywhere,” Fendley said.

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We do pagan rituals with bonfires in our back yard all the time, and the neighbors never complain.

A Waukesha woman was arrested early Tuesday morning for disturbing neighbors by yelling witch chants around a bonfire she built 10-feet from her home, police Capt. Mike Babe said.Brenna K. Barney, 42, told police that they were infringing on her religious beliefs since she is a Wiccan and she was performing a ritual because of a new moon, Babe said. She said her name is Brenna Raven Moonfire.

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Don’t drink and drive. You might hit a bump and spill your drink.

A man in Orange County suspected of driving drunk was captured Tuesday night after he jumped out of a vehicle and ran from officers still holding a beer in his hand, according to the sheriff’s deputies.

Deputies said they spotted a vehicle Tuesday night and attempted to stop the driver on suspicion he was driving drunk.

The driver then led police on a chase that ended on Mott Avenue in the Lockhart area.

Officers said the driver tried to run them down before jumping from the vehicle and running away.

The man was spotted fleeing while still clutching a beer.

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He should have tried rubbing their bellies, it makes them sleepy.

CAPE York stockman David George has spent seven nights up a tree in a crocodile-infested swamp, bleeding and with little food - and lived to tell the tale.

The father-of-one and co-manager at Silver Plains cattle station yesterday told his remarkable tale of survival and rescue by chopper in rugged bushland near Coen, in the state’s remote far north.

“Every night I was stalked by two crocs who would sit at the bottom of the tree staring up at me,” Mr George recalled yesterday.

“All I could see was two sets of red eyes below me and all night I had to listen to a big bull croc bellowing a bit further out.

“I’d yell out at them, ‘I’m not falling out of this tree for you bastards’.”

Dazed and bleeding after a tumble from his horse earlier this month, the bushie had given the horse its head in the pre-dawn dark to get him home – only to find it had taken him more than a kilometre into the heart of a croc swamp.

“I had to get off the horse and fall on the long 8ft-high swamp grass to clear a path, when I fell straight into a crocodile nest,” he said.

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Having lived in MO for some time I CAN SAY they are insane about the Bible belt crap. My friend brought me to one church and they were running around like chickens for some time, speaking in tongues, then they proceeded to beg us for money so they can drive around in nicer cars. It was insane. INSANE.

The first man shot in the rural Missouri church sanctuary was a grandfather of three who had shepherded the local community of Micronesian immigrants for about 15 years.

His uncle started apologizing to the gunman in an attempt to defuse the situation, a witness said. Instead he was shot next.

Members of the tightly knit Micronesian community struggled Monday to comprehend why a gunman stormed into their church service, killed three religious leaders, and wounded five others. All of those who died were Micronesian immigrants and pastors or associate pastors, family members said.

”He was a very generous, outgoing person,” Lou Rehobson-Manuel said of her brother, Kernal Rehobson, the first man killed in the Sunday rampage. ”He was kind of a shepherd for all our sheep.”

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I guess he doesn’t like older ladies. Maybe he has a mean one at home?

A 41-year-old man stormed a beauty salon and bludgeoned four grandmothers with a hammer, fracturing one’s skull, before making off with less than $90, police said.

A police investigator enters the salon where the attack took place.

Thomas Leyshon III, of Mountain Top, was arrested after a daylong manhunt Friday.

The women, ages 56 to 76, did not resist but were beaten anyway, witnesses said. At least one required surgery.

“It takes a coward to go after some old women,” said Andy Chopka, grandson of victim Jeanna Chopka.

Authorities allege Leyshon attacked a co-owner of Hairem Family Hair and Nail Care while demanding money from the register and the women’s purses.

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Now if I can figure out how to keep the neighbors cat from killing the chipmonks and rabbits in my yard in the middle of the night…. Seriously though it is a no brainer. Cats are cold creatures. You think your cat loves you? Drop kitty off at uncle Mikes house for a week. After three days it will forget all about you so long as it has its kibble and something to keep its mind on.

Do that to a long time family dog and it would ball its eyes out. Possibly break ol’ yellers heart. I could go on and on for months about this subject but that alone should state my case. Dogs have feelings, cats have instincts only for the most part. Not to mention many breeds of K9 can be amazing protectors.

Nearly six-in-ten (57%) of all adults in this country own a pet or pets of one kind or another, with dog owners (39% of all adults) outnumbering cat owners (23%) – and owners of all other pets trailing far behind, the Pew survey finds.

More whites (64%) than blacks (30%) or Hispanics (39%) have a pet. There is also an income skew to pet ownership: nearly seven-in-ten (69%) adults with an annual family income of $100,000 or more has a pet, compared with fewer than half (45%) of adults with an income below $30,000. Also, rural residents (65%) are more likely than suburbanites (57%) or city folks (51%) to have a pet — though, as noted above, they’re a bit less likely to consider their dogs or cats a member of the family.

Dogs may be known as man’s best friend, but for most of their owners, even that lavish sobriquet appears to undershoot the mark. Fully 85% of dog owners say they consider their pet to be a member of their family, according to a Pew Research Center survey.

And most cat owners (78%) feel the same way.

The pets-as-four-legged-family-member phenomenon helps explain everything from the heart-tugging scenes during Hurricane Katrina last fall, when some Gulf Coast residents risked staying home because they did not want to abandon their pets, to the explosive recent growth of the pet care industry. Americans spent an estimated $35.9 billion on their pets last year, up from $17 billon in 1994, according to the American Pet Products Manufacturers Association. Some of that money went for pet cosmetic surgery, pet insurance, pet strollers, pet waterbeds and, yes, pet spas and hotels. (The “Presidential Suite” at the Ritzy Canine Carriage House in Manhattan is available for $175 a night, breakfast included.)

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Aren’t toy guns supposed to have bright orange barrels or something? At least here in the US they do. But, after all, what do we know about guns? Jesus, has common sense jumped out the window? Does anyone think that a 10 year old is going to have a real M-16 in England of all places?

Brodie Pearsall is no any ordinary 10-year-old boy. At this tender age, which child can say they’ve had an entire police force after them?After showing off his new £10 (about R150) toy gun to his friends, in a matter of minutes he was surrounded by armed police.

Officers with dogs ordered Brodie to put down the 18in weapon, reports the Daily Mirror.

Shocked neighbours called the police after spotting the realistic-looking gun.

But Brodie’s mum Gail, of Cradley Heath, West Midlands, said: “Brodie was in tears. They were shouting at him instead of talking to me. I think the whole thing is ridiculous.”

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