codyg1985’s Think Tank

An interesting explanation of the age-old tradition of yelling “Geronimo!” when jumping from one place to another. I guess there is just a good explanation of everything if you know where to look.

Two Ramona High School students were supended from school for bringing snow to school grounds to start a snowball fight.:
Principal Mike Neece said one of his most important responsibilities is maintaining a safe, orderly learning environment.
“Anything that disturbs that or disrupts that is inappropriate on a school campus,” Neece said. “Anything that could […]

What do you do if you run out of toilet paper? This guy beat his roommate to death with a hammer.
The roommates were fighting, and one pulled out a shotgun. The other roommate then pulled out a sledge hammer and beat the other roommate to death.

New York state will tax out-of-state drivers that get ticketed in the state. The tax charges cited motorists $100 per year after the ticket has been issued and paid.
Michigan, New Jersey, and Texas also dock drivers with this tax, and Virginia will soon follow suit.

That heart on that box of candy that you got for Valentine’s Day could have been inspired long ago by the shape of a woman’s butt, according to a professor of psychology:
Galdino Pranzarone of Roanoke College in Salem, Va., told Discovery News that he analyzed “essential literary and speculative evidence from mythology and secondary sources,” […]

The folks at Wired Magazine are looking at a day where machines will perform tasks autonomously and human skill will be rendered obsolete. Fully self-sufficient robots and machines will stay in the realm of science-fiction because, well, science-fiction has taught us that if made autonomous, robots will take over the world, leaving everything, including […]

A senior at Munford High School, northeast of Talladega, AL, was arrested for serving brownies laced with marijuana to his classmates.  The drugged desserts caused the twelve students dizziness and nausea.
The student has been charged with distribution of a controlled substance.

How much of a Star Trek fan are you? Enough to max out 14 credit cards to transform your home into the Starship Voyager? Well this person was. Now he’s bankrupt.

A Rhode Island middle school student was suspended from school after writing an essay that spells out what he could consider a perfect day: killing President Bush, Oprah Winfrey, executives of Coca-Cola company and Wal-Mart, and attacking a Walgreens pharmacy.
The student’s teacher alerted the authorities after the student turned in the essay. The student […]