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Only on the FT forum, could I ever have conceived contributing this.
Another learning experience...
Another learning experience...
Amazing. In the UK, this would meet the strict legal criteria for sexual assault.
How has this behaviour survived into the 21st century CE, anywhere?
So after my own heart, I could have written that.I don't teach young children now, but when I did I would pick them up and swing them around like nephews and nieces, and when I got paid I'd treat them to doughnuts or buy small toys out of my own pocket as rewards for good work.
Ddong-chim in Korean.
Yes, it very much exists. Young child puts both hands together, extends both index and middle finger as if forming an imaginary pistol, and then waits for an opportunity to thrust this between the cheeks. It's a bit like a playful 'gotcha!' and not designed to humiliate. More like 'bunny ears' behind a person's head.
I had a child do it to me in my first job.
He didn't do it a second time.
Teens rather than 'kids', but what the hell is wrong with these people?
An Alaskan teenager allegedly killed her best friend after an online stranger posing as a tycoon offered her money to carry out the murder.
Denali Brehmer, 18, of Anchorage, is accused of plotting the murder of Cynthia Hoffman, 19, this month.
Ms Brehmer allegedly sent Snapchat video of the killing to an Indiana man, Darin Schilmiller, 21, who had offered her $9m (£7m) for the killing.
Prosecutors said the case should serve as a warning to the parents of teens.
Bryan Schroder, the US Attorney for the District of Alaska, told a news conference on Tuesday: "For all of the good the internet can do, it can be a dark place and parents would be wise to monitor the activity of their children online."
The whole depressing tale:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48696123
Yeah, their negotiating skills are crap. Shocking.Not all, and they were teenagers.
They should at least have asked for some money up front.
I remember a story from over 25 years ago. It was on the East Coast of Scotland{Highlands}, where a group of 15 and 1 sixteen year old bought an old banger from a scrappy for £60{many questions were asked following the incident} and drove it to the West Coast. They drove along mostly single track roads ending in a place called Kinlochbervie{excuse if wrong spelling!}The village happened to have one local Bobby who was driving behind the vehicle when it failed to indicate at a junction. He flicked on his blue light{which must have been a rare occurence} and pulled the car over. He walked up to the vehicle to find no one in the passenger or driving seat. All five kids were sitting in the back!He had to wait for 45 minutes so another Bobby could travel from the nearest village to assist.The local paper headlines were Boys buy car with sweetie money!"Strewth!
Four children aged 10 to 14 packed fishing rods in a parent’s car, left a farewell note then drove more than 600 miles down the Australian east coast before they were stopped the next day.
Acting Police Inspector Darren Williams said on Monday the children were stopped by police near Grafton in New South Wales on Sunday, then locked the doors and refused to get out. He said a police officer used a baton to break a window of the Nissan Patrol, which had been reported stolen. Police were not sure which child or children drove or why they left Rockhampton in Queensland state on Saturday. The children are a 14-year-old boy, two 13-year-old boys and a 10-year-old girl.
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/tech-auto/automotive/police-stop-four-children-who-drove-car-600-miles-down-australian-coast/15/07/
A mixed bag (anybody who'd rather be a teacher than an astronaut needs their head read).
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https://arstechnica.com/science/201...uld-much-rather-be-youtubers-than-astronauts/
Surely a Chinese kid would want to be a taikonaut? Yes, I am being THAT pedantic.
That is actually mentioned in the article.
Pilot programme for juvenile offenders needed.
Boy, 13, steals two planes from a resort and takes them for a spin after learning how to operate the aircraft by observing mechanics
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7264299/Boy-13-steals-two-planes-takes-spin-observing-mechanic.html
- Boy in China pushed planes from hangar and crashed one of them into a barrier
- He then proceeded to operate the second one and drove it in circles in the lot
- One employee said he recalled seeing the boy observing mechanics working
- After watching workers for two hours, he hatched a plan to try and fly the planes
- Family offered compensation of £230 for the crashed plane with damaged floats
Now I know how to get trained as a pilot! Fantastic!And there is a pilot programme!
The airport has reached an agreement with the family for him to pay 2,000 yuan, as they are too poor to afford the full fine.
The Global Times newspaper says that police found the boy doing his homework when they came to fine him, and they gave him a strict verbal warning.
But the airport has been fairly sympathetic. Its director says they will step up security, but has also offered to train the boy as a pilot.
Staff were incredulous as to how the boy could have mastered the controls of the aircraft without any piloting experience, saying that he had only been watching the plane being repaired a day earlier. The airport's director told Pear Video that the boy must be very clever, as "it is impossible to learn by observation alone".
https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-49073042
Dorothy, who declined to share her last name, says her mother disciplined her two weeks ago after she got too distracted while cooking and caused a fire.
Kudos for ingenuity & determination.LG did not respond to request for comment, but its website confirms the refrigerator does have social media capabilities, and the tweet source confirms it was sent from the device.
Why would a fridge need social media capabilities?
How sadA mixed bag (anybody who'd rather be a teacher than an astronaut needs their head read).
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