The Poor Kid Fell For It – The Worst Part . . . It’s Publicised
Like a scene from the movie “A Christmas Story,” police had to free a boy who got his tongue stuck to a metal stop sign, Lt. William H. Graham said Wednesday.
Whether anyone uttered the infamous “triple-dog dare” that goaded the movie’s Flick into sticking his tongue to a pole is unclear, but police said the boy was surrounded by a group of kids when his tongue froze to the sign in 9-degree weather. The group said the boy was “talking smart,” Graham said.
Officer Daniel Baumann was the first to arrive at Carroll and Barstow streets at 7:24 p.m. Tuesday, but he had to wait for Officer Raymond Fuerstenberg to show up a short time later with a bottle of water. Baumann poured the water on the boy’s tongue and on the sign and then the boy pulled his tongue away. “He lost some skin from his tongue on the stop sign,” Graham said.
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Some Men Really Want To Control The Remote
MOSCOW (Reuters Life!) – A Russian confessed to police he killed his grandmother because they could not agree on what program to watch on television, prosecutors said on Friday.
Arguments over who controls the television remote are familiar to most families. The suspect, from Russia’s Karelia region near Finland, took things to extremes by stabbing and bludgeoning to death his 81-year-old grandmother.
“When he started to testify to police, he said he killed her because they could not agree on what TV program they wanted to watch,” said Tatyana Kordyukova, a spokeswoman for the Karelia prosecutor’s office.
She said the man was drunk at the time. “He could not remember exactly what it was he wanted to watch.”
Police were called to the family’s apartment and found the woman’s body. Her grandson had fled but he was caught later and is now in prison awaiting trial.
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Wife of the Year!
Mom Induces Labor So Husband Can Attend Game
CHICAGO — Chicago school teacher Colleen Pavelka knows how much her husband loves the Bears. Apparently, she loves him even more.
Colleen chose to have the birth of their second child induced a few days early so Mark Pavelka could attend Sunday’s NFC Championship showdown between the Bears and the New Orleans Saints.
The baby was due Monday. But when Colleen went in for an appointment Friday afternoon, her doctors told her she could opt for an early delivery. She decided to do so.
After nearly six hours of labor, 8-pound, 9-ounce Mark Patrick Pavelka was born Friday night.
Colleen Pavelka plans to catch the game on the plasma screen TV in her hospital room, while baby Mark Patrick is bundled up in the Bears receiving blanket his grandmother bought him for Christmas.
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