Try stuffing them in cargo--According to the Times of London, "Giving passengers more leg room on flights puts them at greater risk of being trapped on a burning aircraft, a British study has found." We couldn’t make sense of the explanation but we do recall that not too many months back there were several reports of passengers on long flights suffering heart trouble attributed to clogged blood circulation. The Times didn’t mention this problem.

A philosophical problem--In "tolerant" San Francisco, Latino motorists are nearly three times more likely to be searched when stopped. For Black motorists, the odds are 3.5 times as likely. Explained the chief cop: "It’s not the result of racial profiling. There’s are a lot of sociological factors involved, and it’s a complicated issue."

Maybe they pointed guns-- "Geneva, New York--Two teens have been accused of serving spoiled and contaminated food to police officers at the fast-food restaurant where they used to work."--AP.

Even cops could understand--In Los Alamitos, California, a man was booked after he was heard screaming, "I’m going to kill you!" However, subsequent investigation confirmed he was yelling at his computer.

Leave it to them--"Five years after the World Food Organization promised to halve the number of hungry people by 2015 a follow-up summit opens today with no significant change in that number, officials say."--USA Today, June 10.

Like we were saying--"ROME--A UN World Food Summit ends Thursday with calls to end the scourge of hunger, but differences on how to go about it appear wider than ever after four days of controversy and bickering."--Reuters, June 14.

Left in suspenders--In Brooklyn, Rabbi Yakove Lloyd called a press conference to cover the formation of an armed patrol to protect a neighborhood against terrorist attack. The head of the right-wing Jewish Defense Group, asserted a platoon of 100 would show up. None did. He conceded that community response was "overwhelmingly negative" and declared the vigilante project "suspended.’’

Big eye in the sky--"Rusk County authorities will be able to monitor drinking parties from the air this year after the state reinstated partial funding for the program. The program funds aircraft to fly over hot spots looking for evidence of underage drinking parties."--News item.  
 
 
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