Hoosier lore

Nothing a libertarian likes better than a 30-year-old ordinance that a city finally decides to enforce:

Logansport residents who fail to get a permit before holding a garage sale could see their profits land in the city's hands.

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The Indianapolis Star's Matt Tully thinks the "far right" should leave Sen. Richard Lugar alone. He'll undoubtedly face a primary challenge from the tea party types who think "he's been in D.C. too long and worked with Democrats too often." But Lugar will survive the challenge for a lot of reasons, the chief one being that "Hoosiers are smarter than that."

A little late, but the right move:

The Indianapolis public safety director identified at least one police policy Thursday that is likely to change in response to the fatal crash involving officer David Bisard.

Trish Shrum is mad at Indianapolis Public School No. 82 officials for lettting her 5-year-old daughter, Trish, "escape" from them in an incident that could be in a silent Keystone Cops movie:

When Mercedes Shrum, 5, found out she had a substitute teacher, she told school officials that she wanted to go home.

The school took her temperature, and because she wasn't ill, administrators got her settled back into the classroom, but not for long.

I envy this young man for knowing what he wants so early in life:

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - A 3-year-old boy is back at home after he was found wandering in a strip club parking lot.

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Police say it appears the family was asleep but the child woke up, unlocked the doors and went outside. Investigators say the family lives across from the club and did in fact have the doors locked.

A bunch of Indiana stuff you may have missed and be interested in. Or not.

• Everybody's freaked out over the study showing that Indiana teens who took driver's ed had nearly four times the crashes of those who didn't take the classes. But driver's ed teens get their permits at a younger age and hold them six months longer. Let's factor that out before getting too worked up.

Along with shouting out "Hi!" to your friend Jack, another good thing never to say at an airport -- "I have a bomb in my belly":

 Police at Indianapolis International Airport arrested a man Monday who claimed to have a bomb inside his stomach.

Purdue University did a little research and came up with an idea to decrease water runoff and flooding. The Journal Gazette approves:

A Purdue University study points to a relatively simple and inexpensive way to reduce flooding: Stop urban sprawl.

An Associated Press story notes that "in 1987, Congress enacted the Nursing Home Reform Law to address evidence of widespread abuse of nursing home patients. The states followed suit . . ." Those observations are followed by this curious passage:

But the emphasis on patient rights led some nursing homes to think they outweighed everything else.

A vanishing breed:

Emory Stephens laughs a lot, easily and genuinely, as if the joke is not on him.

Is it?

At $3 per haircut, this 92-year-old barber cheats himself out of all kinds of income -- and has for years and years and years.

His is a business that is nowhere near business-like, for sure. Otherwise, it might have a sign