Brickbats: January 2025
Sandy Snakenberg, a San Diego street performer whose act involves blowing bubbles, was performing in a park when two park rangers cited him for “littering in bubble form.” Video shows one of the rangers telling Snakenberg that he will cite him again if he continues to perform and recommend that prosecutors handle it as a misdemeanor instead of a lesser offense. But the ranger added he’s not eager to do that, saying he would “feel like the biggest idiot taking this to court.”
A student at Missouri’s Liberty Middle School was suspended for three days after posting a photo online of Dr. Pepper cans he had laid in the shape of a rifle. The district superintendent said there was “enough information to believe the video has caused fear to at least one student and understandably so.”
U.S. Postal Service employee Saahir Irby was charged with mail theft. Irby worked at the Philadelphia Processing and Distribution Center, which processes both outbound U.S. Treasury checks and those marked “return to sender.” Officials say Irby stole 112 checks during a single work shift.
When freshmen at North Carolina’s Riverside High School received their school-issued Chromebooks for the recent school year, the laptops—which had been stored in the school’s storage shed over the summer—were infested with bed bugs. The school asked students to return the devices and recommended that parents inspect their homes for bugs.
Some Utah sheriffs say new rules would impose heavy burdens on volunteer search and rescue teams. The sheriffs say the rules, proposed by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration, would require at least 690 additional hours of training for some crews, much of it for scenarios that backcountry crews aren’t going to encounter, such as active shoo
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