LAKELAND, Fla. – An eighth-grader was suspended from riding the school bus for three days after being accused of passing gas. The bus driver wrote on a misbehavior form that a 15-year-old teen passing gas on the bus Monday to make the other children laugh, creating a stench so bad that it was difficult to breathe. The bus driver handed the teen the suspension form the next day.
Polk County school officials said there's no rule against flatulence, but there are rules against causing a disturbance on the bus.
The teen said he wasn't the one passing gas.
Whether he did it or not, he might have gotten off easy. A 13-year-old student at a Stuart school was arrested in November after authorities said he broke wind in class.
Wow...seriously.
A Thai fireman turned superhero when he dressed up as comic-book character Spider-Man to coax a frightened eight-year-old from a balcony, police said Tuesday.
Teachers at a special needs school in Bangkok alerted authorities on Monday when an autistic pupil, scared of attending his first day at school, sat out on the third-floor ledge and refused to come inside, a police sergeant told AFP.
Despite teachers' efforts to beckon the boy inside, he refused to budge until his mother mentioned her son's love of superheroes, prompting fireman Sonchai Yoosabai to take a novel approach to the problem.
The rescuer dashed back to his fire station and made a quick change into a Spider-Man costume before returning to the boy, he said.
"I told him Spider-Man is here to rescue you, no monsters are going to attack you and I told him to walk slowly towards me as running could be dangerous," Somchai told local television.
The young boy immediately stood up and walked into his rescuer's arms, police said.
Somchai said he keeps the Spider-Man costume and an outfit of Japanese television character Ultraman at the station in order to liven up school fire drills.
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The crisis on Wall Street is plaguing Sesame Street.
Best known as the home of such Muppet characters as Big Bird and Elmo, Sesame Workshop was founded in 1968 as Children's Television Workshop, then unveiled the groundbreaking "Sesame Street" as a literacy-building initiative a year later. That show, which remains a worldwide hit, was the first step toward a media empire that encompasses television, books, toys and online programing.
The people behind Sesame Street PBS is cutting 1/5 of its work force which is 67 of their 355 workers.
Two animated incarnations of the Japanese pop star Namie Amuro will star in a music video for her "Dr." song, which ships on March 18 along with her "Wild" single. It will be Amuro's first fully animated music video. The video's story is set in the year 3000 on an Earth that has been reduced to ruins by weapons of mass destruction and environmental destruction. An animated alter-ego of Amuro is the lone survivor who wants to restore the once beautiful planet. She attempts to "convey a message of 'world peace' that transcends time" to the 21st century through a time-slip. A girl living in the present (as represented by another alter-ego of Amuro) receives that message of world peace. The Natalie news website has posted images from the music videos.
Shūichi Satō is the video's creative director who is best known for his Vidal Sassoon ads in Japan. As the animation director, Junpei Mizusaki (Kouchuu Ouja Mushiking Super Battle Movie: Yami no Kaizou Kouchuu, Mardock Scramble, Princess Arete) supervised over 40 animators from several Japanese studios, including Kamikaze Douga (Dragon Quest games), Sunrise Ogikubo Studio (Akira, Steamboy), and Studio Jack (Pocket Monsters movies' backgrounds). The video lasts five minutes and 43 seconds. With their rallying cry ("compromise is death") as inspiration, the animation team finished the project in just one month.
The Gpara.com website reports that Bandai President and CEO Kazunori Ueno said on Wednesday that "there are no plans to broadcast [another Gundam] television series in 2009." Ueno was responding to a question posed during a press conference: "Will a new work be announced in 2009 to commemorate the 30th anniversary [of the Gundam robot anime franchise]?" There will be a short movie produced to mark the anniversary at August's Gundam Big Expo convention in Tokyo.
Bandai's parent company, Bandai Namco Holdings, held this press conference on Wednesday to announce the Mobile Suit Gundam 30th Anniversary Project, which consists of three phases. The "Real G" phase will erect a 18-meter-tall (59-feet-tall) "life-size" statue of the original RX-78-2 Gundam robot in Shiokaze Park on Tokyo's artificial Odaiba island. The statue will stand for two months. The "Feel G" phase will be the Gundam Big Expo, the anniversary convention which will be held from August 21 to August 23 at the Tokyo Big Sight convention center on Odaiba, just four train stops away from Shiokaze Park. Finally, the "Soul G" phase will be a Gundam 30th anniversary commemorative live concert which the promoters aim to hold in 2009. The overall theme for the anniversary project is "Always Beginning."
The Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Second Season anime project is currently airing in Japan, but it started in October of 2008 and it is scheduled to end on March 29. A new, as yet unnamed series will mark the anniversary in Kadokawa Shoten's Gundam Ace manga magazine.
