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OK, settle down class, take your seats and we’ll get started!
Today’s subject is Physics, let’s say a 1200 kg vehicle is travelling at 50 km/h.
500 meters away, a 14 year old is walking in the middle of the road at 4.8 km/h.
Now, when these two objects meet, who is going to get a call first, the mechanic or the hospital?
Right, the hospital, it doesn’t take a genius to figure that out.
Which makes me wonder why kids find it necessary to walk in the middle of the street, instead of using the sidewalks?
Last night, I’m driving home and a group of kids were walking in the middle of a residental street!
How stupid is that? I mean, is this the only way to seem ‘cool’?
Not every car is going to slow down and go around them, some are not going to see them until it’s too late.
These kids need to talk to the last group that wouldn’t move for me!
It was night time, and I had to run to the store and I was stunned to see a group of kids hanging out on the street, directly in my path.
I slowed down, and waited for them to move, which they eventually did.
I was freakin’!!!! I should’ve pulled a ‘Red Foreman’ and placed my boot…..well you get the idea.
Now as fate would have it, on my way BACK from the store, these guys were STILL there!
This time they were walking with their backs to me, still in the middle of the road.
I flicked off my lights, slowed down, and when I got about 10 feet away from, I LAYED ON THE HORN…and scared the crap out of them!
Some laughed, some cursed at me, I think I made one of them cry!
Bottom line was, I made hundreds of evening trips to the store after that.
And not once did I see them in the middle of the street again!
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OK, so today China was stripped of a bronze medal from the 2000 Sydney Olympics fielding an underage gymnast, with the women’s team medal now going to the United States.
The International Olympic Committee acted after investigations by the sport’s governing body determined that Dong Fangxiao was only 14 at the 2000 Games. Gymnasts must turn 16 during the Olympic year to be eligible.
Now, according to reports, questions about Dong’s eligibility arose during the Federation of International Gymnastic’s investigation into the ages of China’s team that won the gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Games. Media reports and Internet records suggested some of the girls on that team could have been as young as 14.
FIG cleared the Beijing Games gymnasts in October 2008 after Chinese officials provided original passports, ID cards and family registers showing all of the gymnasts were old enough to compete. But the FIG said it wasn’t satisfied with “the explanations and evidence provided to date” for Dong and a second gymnast, Yang Yun.
Dong’s accreditation information for the Beijing Olympics, where she worked as a national technical official, listed her birthday as Jan. 23, 1986. That would have made her 14 in Sydney – too young to compete. Her birth date in the FIG database is listed as Jan. 20, 1983.
Dong’s blog also said she was born in the Year of the Ox in the Chinese zodiac, which dates from Feb. 20, 1985, to Feb. 8, 1986.
FIG investigators didn’t find sufficient evidence to prove Yang, who also won a bronze medal on uneven bars in 2000, was underage. She received a warning from FIG.
Why does she still have that medal when it has now been proven that she was underage?
And more importantly, how is it that it takes 10 years to figure out how old somebody is when she pretty much admitted it in her blog?
Are these people THAT stupid?
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If you’re failing Math, but pretty good around electronics, there’s a job waiting for you at Circuit City;
