OVER THE EDGE _ February 28, 2007

British organizers of
children’s activities are
putting a sack to, well,
sack races. Fears that an
injury of a child resulting
from a sack race could
lead to lawsuits is

the largest concern.
Insurance to cover these
events are now 200
pounds more expensive
than last year.

Bus stations in
Bulgaria show the bus
schedules for the day on
plasma screens during
the day. However, at
night, they now show
softcore pornography. A
spokesman says that its
to help people take their
minds off of the cold.

Suicide rates for youths
in the States isup —
18% from 2003-2004.
This spike has been
attributed by some to be
resulting from a lower
use in antidepressants.
The deaths are usually
people in their late teens.

Protests in Pristina,
Kosovo’s capital, have
lead to some arrests
and at least one injury.
Protesters, composed
of ethnic Albanians, -
were protesting a UN
plan on Kosovo which
was recently announced
which the Albanians

do not believe go far
enough to give Kosovo
independence. Kosovo
has been run by the

UN since 1999 when a
bombing campaign by
Nato forced the retreat of
Serbian troops.

A Rhode Island woman,

Rebecca Arnold, has
been charged with child
neglect. She is charged
for having sex with her
boyfriend in front of her
9-year old daughter.
They did not force her
to stay and watch but
also did not encourage
her to leave, where she
sometimes watched
sitting on the same bed.
The couple said it was to
teach the girl about sex.

A truck driver in
Wisconsin overturned
his truck while he was
trying to adjust his MP3
player. The freeway he
was driving on, and the
ditch he fell into, turned
into the dumping grounds
for his haul; 76,000
pounds of cow parts,
including cow intestines
and bones. The driver
was treated for non-life

_ threatening injuries.

Palestinian protesters
in Jerusalem hurled
rocks at a tourist bus

full of Canadians. This
attack is part of an
ongoing conflict between
the Palestinians and the
Israelis over the Israelis
construction efforts to
build around a holy

site, the site where the
prophet Muhammad is
said to have ascended to
heaven.

A pawn shop owner

in Calgary has been
fined $7500 for charging
interest to customers

on loans. The interest
rates he provided to the

desperate and needy

reached in excess of
200,000%.

Wayne Kingwell, 40,
was apprehended trying
to cross into the United
States via the Niagra .
River on a rubber raft.
He claims he was trying
to pay off a credit bill

in person in the city

of Buffalo. He could

not enter through the
traditional border due to
past legal disputes and
he would have been
charged $85 dollars for

mailing the payment from

Canada.

28.000 Canadian
National Railway
employees have gone
on strike. Commuters
in Toronto and Montreal
have been assured that

vital Via passenger trains
_ will not be interrupted.:

Conductors are required
to give 3 days notice
before walking off the

job. CN freight operations

are currently being run
by managers in the
place of striking staff.
CNR is telling people to
prepare for disruptions in
case the strikes develop
further.

A survey of women

in the US has found
that on average women
would give up sex for

15 months for a new
wardrobe. 2% would
even give it up entirely
for 3 years for new
clothing. The most
shocking result would be

that 61% of women think
it is worse to lose heir
favourite piece of clothing
than to not have sex for
one month.

Officials in South
Korea have slaughtered
hundreds of thousands
of poultry after the sixth
outbreak of Bird Flu in
recent months. 240,000
birds will be slaughtered
in a two-mile radius of
the outbreak. Scientists
are worried about the
virus mutating into a form
which could be easily
transmitted between
people.

An agreement has been

made between Apple
Computers and The
Beatles’ Apple Corps
Ltd. A dispute over the
rights to the Apple name
and logo has been a
long debate between the
two companies. A 1991
agreement stated that
Apple computers would
not enter the music
business, yet the release
of iTunes brought their
conflict out again.

Anna Nicole Smith has

been found dead in her
Florida hotel room, on
February 8th. She has
undergone an autopsy
yet no cause of death
has been determined.
Foul play or drug
overdose appear to
have been dismissed
as a cause. She has

a baby daughter of
which custody is now
an unresolved issue.
Anna Nicole lost her son
a few months ago to an

extend

| accident in the Bahamas.

R. Kelly missed a court
appearance to undergo
appendix surgery after
his appendix burst. He

is on trial for videotaping
sex acts with an

underage girl. His next
court date is February |
21, and he is expected to
have recovered by then.

Senator Barack
Obama has formalized
his bid for the US
Presidential election.

He is a frontrunner for

the Democratic party’s
nomination for the 2008
vote. He is said to be the
first black candidate to
actually have a chance

to make it to the White
House.

Stephen Harper starts
a political firestorm by
saying;

“Obviously, the Lib-
eral Party opposes the
change we have made...
| am not surprised, given
what | am reading in The
Vancouver Sun _ today,
when | realize this is how
the Liberal Party makes
decisions...”

[Harper, now reading
the Vancouver Sun] “The
Vancouver Sun has learn-
ed that the father-in-law of
the member of Parliament
for Mississauga-Bramp-
ton...”

[In implying that the
Liberals are refusing to
anti-terrorism
measures in order to pro-
tect one of their MPs.]