Richard and Donna Ganguet live in the Four Seasons gated development in El Dorado Hills. They say the neighbor’s tobacco smoke settles in their backyard and seeps in through their windows.
The Ganguets are suing their next-door neighbor over cigar and cigarette smoke they say wafts into their backyard and house.
Because of the smoke, the couple say, they no longer sit on their patio. They also try to sandwich in swims in the side-yard lap pool between their neighbors’ smoking sessions.
A WET T-shirt controversy has broken out among female firefighters who have complained their new Rural Fire Service shirts become see-through when wet.
More than 600 volunteers joined a Facebook petition to object to the issuing of the bright yellow shirts to replace existing navy blue ones.
Women complained that when they sweat, handle leaking hoses, wash or fill their trucks and even when it rains, their male colleagues can see through their new shirts.
In other news, acts of arson are up almost 200%.
A Louisiana justice of the peace said he refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple out of concern for any children the couple might have.
No, this is not an old story from before 1967 when interracial marriages were fully legalized in the USA.
Keith Bardwell, justice of the peace in Tangipahoa Parish, says it is his experience that most interracial marriages do not last long.
“I’m not a racist. I just don’t believe in mixing the races that way,” Bardwell told the Associated Press on Thursday. “I have piles and piles of black friends. They come to my home, I marry them, they use my bathroom. I treat them just like everyone else.”
A small community in Greene County is embroiled in controversy after local officials decided to ban trick-or-treating this year.
Instead, Bobtown will hold a four-hour Halloween party.
Supervisors in Dunkard Township say they are taking the steps for safety reasons.
What kind of old grumps ban trick-or-treating? It’s the best part of Halloween.
Unless the police will respond to reports of trick-or-treaters with weapons drawn and handcuffs ready, what is the point of this ban? Is it actually going to stop anyone?
Assistant Dunkard Fire Chief David Pritchard says there’s been a lot of break-ins lately and that older people in Bobtown were scared.
Cellphones are in the news. First from France where nearly half of the kids in school are using their cellphones in class, and second from N.H. where a teen became one of the first people in that state to be charged under a new “distracted driver” law.
First, French kids don’t need school; they have Google on mobile.
Nearly half of French youths are using their mobile phones in class, with a majority saying they had answered calls during lessons, according to a survey published Tuesday.
Two teenage girls leapt to their deaths from a 125ft-high road bridge in a suspected suicide pact.
Neve Lafferty, from the Dumbartonshire town of Helensburgh, was seen holding hands with Georgia Rowe, 14, as they fell from the Erskine Bridge, a notorious suicide spot near Glasgow.
The pair both attended the Good Shepherd Centre in nearby Bishopton, Renfrewshire. The Good Shepherd Centre is a residential school for girls aged 12-18 with emotional and behavioural difficulties.
Police told over 50 semi-naked girls to cover up after they stripped down to their underwear to win free outfits.
The style lovers flocked to a clothes store wearing only bras and knickers – teamed with brimming handbags – to win a saucy promotion.
A new Joy store in North London had offered to give away clothes to the first 25 customers who came to the shop dressed only in their undergarments.
Five police officers dashed to the scene to tackle the partially clothed girls – and even ordered a shop assistant to cover up a raunchy picture in the window display.
From claiming the existence of magical creatures to odd consequences of kids’ actions, parents often come up with creative tales to shape a child’s behaviors and emotions.
“We are surprised by how often parenting by lying takes place,” said study researcher Kang Lee of the University of Toronto, Canada. “Our findings showed that even the parents who most strongly promoted the importance of honesty with their children engaged in parenting by lying.”
Many parents reported telling their children that bad things would happen if they didn’t go to bed or eat certain foods. One mother recalled telling her child that if he didn’t finish his food he would get pimples all over his face.
Bozo came too close to the kids and got shot; not the famous clown, but a dog named “Bozo.”
Students at Bebensee Elementary School in Arlington were outside on a bus drill, when two dogs ran onto school grounds.
But when Bozo started nipping at police, an officer was forced to pull his gun and shoot Bozo, police said.
Great work! Now the kids have been exposed to the horror of seeing a dog being shot. I’m sure they will all be just fine.
Sen. Tom Coburn’s (R-OK) chief of staff Michael Schwartz made the case against pornography. “All pornography is homosexual pornography,” said Schwartz, quoting an ex-gay friend of his, “because all pornography turns your sexual drive inwards.”
Schwartz then explained the side benefit of this finding — that if boys know pornography will make them gay, they’ll never touch it, taking advantage of what Schwartz sees as a natural homophobia. “And if you tell an 11-year-old boy about that, do you think he’s going to want to get a copy of Playboy?” he said. “I’m pretty sure he’ll lose interest. That’s the last thing he wants!”
