I guess I've lived a more sheltered life than I had supposed, because here's a problem I really didn't realize we needed a state law to fix:
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - A state lawmaker says he plans to sponsor a bill next session that would bar adult males from applying spray-on tans to female juveniles at tanning salons.
State Rep. Bruce Borders, R-Jasonville, said he was shocked by a recent case where an adult man who works at a tanning salon applied a spray-on tan on a nude 15-year-old girl.
Huh.
"Any time someone with influenza coughs, sneezes, or even talks loudly, they actually expel the virus in their breath,” said Diana Bowden, Infection Control Preventionist with Regional Hospital. “That's why social distancing is important, because you need to keep your distance so you don't inhale the droplets that are coming out in their breath."
Gun enthusiasts seem to be, um, shooting themselves in the foot. Apparently worried about the future availability of ammunition under a not-so-gun-friendly Obama administration, they are rushing out to buy said ammunition, driving up the price and, ironically, creating the very shortage they feared. This is having an adverse affect on police departments:
Officer Knoll said as the demand rises for ammo, so does the price.
An employee of the Marion County Clerk's Office has been fired after accusations she tried to sell prescription drugs, and now the city officials are being questioned about why they didn't check her Facebook.com page as part of the screening process:
"Im bein charged wit a d n b felony haha {expletive} u will get yers," read a posting on Straw's page. "{Expletive} u will get yers it called karma."
Does it occur to anybody else that the more "rights" students have, the less the adults are in charge and the less likely real education is being concentrated on? Those rights now extend to the most frivolous of all school activities:
The Indiana High School Athletic Association's executive committee has unanimously approved a rule change allowing girls to try out for baseball and other boys sports, formalizing a move made following settlement of a lawsuit.
"Poverty in America" update:
MUNCIE -- The sign near the door of Papa Murphy's Take 'n' Bake Pizza is subtle but noticeable.
Food stamps gladly accepted."
Nothing like a fake hate crime to say "Happy Mother's Day"!
PORTAGE -- A local resident says he was trying to scare his mother when he set her bedroom on fire while she was sleeping, according to police reports.
And the racial slur against white people was intended to make people think it was a hate crime by blacks.
Wonder what "slur" he used? Hoosier Redneck Moron?
First, it was $4 gasoline that threatened Indiana's many local festivals. Now, it's the overall economy. Some communities are rethinking things:
The lingering recession is forcing the organizers of some of Indiana's festivals to scale back their events or move them to more affordable venues before the state's festival season gets under way.
At least one good thing came out of state legislators' incompetence in failing to pass a new state budget in the waning days of this General Assembly session. It took so much energy to fail there that they didn't even get around to a measure to give Indianapolis revenue options for the money-hemorrhaging Capital Improvements Board, which will now have to call an emergency meeting:
A student athlete learns that being talented does not always mean bad behavior will be forgiven:
In the end, Kellen Lewis never figured it out. He never met the leadership burden that comes with being a quarterback and Indiana's best football player. The result — his Hoosier career is over.
