Chutzpah! Logan Alexander, 63, a school security guard in Trenton, N.J., who was fired after pleading guilty in 2007 to twice inappropriately touching students, was later sued by a third girl for similar behavior but settled that lawsuit in 2010 by agreeing to pay the girl $12,500. Recently, according to a December report in the Trenton Times, Alexander filed a lawsuit against the Trenton Board of Education, demanding that the board pay the $12,500 to the girl because, after all, Alexander was “on duty” when he committed the inappropriate touching.
Least Competent Criminals In Bennington, Vt., in December, Adam Hall, 34, was accused of vandalizing his ex-girlfriend’s car, including scratching the word “slut” into the hood (except that the word was spelled s-u-l-t). Hall denied any involvement until an officer handed him a sheet of paper and asked him to write the sentence, “You are a slut.” Hall spelled slut “sult” and was charged with malicious mischief.
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of the drivers, changing lanes, hit a median barrier and spun across the highway, resulting in a chain-reaction pileup involving 14 cars, including eight red Ferraris, a Lamborghini and two Mercedes-Benz. Drivers suffered only cuts and bruises, but “some” of the vehicles were reported “beyond repair.”
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The District of Calamity • In November, the Washington Times reported that the Washington, D.C.-area Metro transportation agency had hired, as a financial consultant, a woman with multiple convictions for bank fraud and who had been implicated in one of Washington’s largest heroin rings. When the agency learned of her record, it neither disciplined her nor removed her from her finance responsibilities. cs By chuck shepherd UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE
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