NAPLES, Fla. -- A 6-year-old special education student who kicked a Naples teacher's aide and spent several hous in juvenile jail is facing felony battery charges.
Her mother, however, wants to know why the case has gone so far.
Takovia Allen suffers from behavioral problems and attends a special class at Lely Elementary in Naples.
According to an arrest report, on May 2, a teacher was trying to line up students to go to music class. Takovia refused to go and kicked the teacher's aide in the ankle.
After a discussion among school officials and two law enforcement officials called to the school, the girl was arrested.
Takovia was taken to juvenile jail and held there for several hours before being released to her mother.
She is being charged with battery on a public education employee.
It's possible she will enter a program that includes counseling. If she completes the program successfully the charges could be dropped.
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Um...I dunno about you but I kinda agree with the mom here..I mean seriously WTH? Arresting a 6 year old with a felony charge for kicking an adult in the ankle? Sheesh why do I get the feeling some people just don't belong anywhere around kids.
#4
Sounds like a way to compel her involvement in a behavior mod program - and to make sure Mom has a reason to go along with the program, if you know what I mean.
#5
There's always more to these stories then whats intially portrayed. I'm willing to bet an ankle kick wasn't little Takovia's first signs of "behavioral problems".
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and you can bet Mom has an excuse for every incident? ADD? Ritalin? Sometimes it's BAD PARENTING
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Grades: PK-5
Type: public
Enrollment: 809 8125 Lely Cultural Pkwy
Naples, FL 34113
Collier County
Phone: (239) 377-7500
Fax: (239) 377-7501
District: Collier County School District
More about Naples schools
Lely Elementary School Students by Race
Male Female Total
American Indiana/Alaskan 0 0 0
Asian/Pacific Islander 3 5 8
Hispanic 108 106 214
Black (Non-Hispanic) 48 49 97
White (Non-Hispanic) 154 154 308
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Snoozing? I'll do you you a couple better (based on experience):
Mommy keeps making excuses.
Mommy's working in another city and leaving the bigger brother to raise the kid.
Mommy's been stoned (I had two students die because of that).
Mommy's been busted/in rehab/run off/declared unfit and Grandma is raising the little darling.
Not too much sympathy here. I've had a special ed student attack his grandmother during a conference, had to restrain another (a second grader)because he tried to stab another student . I've had special education teachers and assistants threatened by students.
And I work in a relatively hick-town school. Comes a point where nothing else works.
MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) They may sport love handles and Ivy League degrees, but every two weeks some Silicon Valley techies turn into vicious street brawlers in a real-life, underground fight club. Kicking, punching and swinging every household object imaginable from frying pans and tennis rackets to pillowcases stuffed with soda cans they beat each other mercilessly in a garage in this bedroom community south of San Francisco.
But enough about the Kos Kiddies.
Then, bloodied and bruised, they limp back to their desks in the morning.
"When you get beat down enough, it becomes a very un-macho thing," said Shiyin Siou, 34, a Santa Clara software engineer and three-year veteran of the clandestine fights. "But I don't need this to prove I'm macho I'm macho enough as it is."
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Kicking, punching and swinging every household object imaginable from frying pans and tennis rackets to pillowcases stuffed with soda cans
I don't think so. Not unless they have a real remote burial site. I saw enough broken bones and concussions during my karate tournament days, and that was under controlled conditions with pads. This goes into the Yanking The Journalist's Chain file unless otherwise noted.
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Pussies. They should see one of our Board meetings.
#6
I'm not buying it. I loved the movie fight club but what I didn't believe was that people would voluntarily get into fights over nothing while sober. Fights hurt, and they hurt for days. And the loser doesn't get that grand glow of victory.
If this was real I would expect them to be taking up martial arts or boxing rather than bare knuckle brawling.
Long before Jack Bauer was cursed with recurring days from hell, perpetually off-duty cop John McClane set the gold standard. Now, with the age of "24" upon us, Bruce Willis is finally prepared to bring his most famous character back to life. "We're getting close," Willis said of the long-awaited "Die Hard 4.0." "They're working on the script like crazy, trying to get ready. The goal, I think, would be to try and shoot it sometime this year." Willis wouldn't say whether the next film will have McClane yippee-ki-yaying in a building, airport, boat or motor scooter ("Even if I knew, I couldn't tell you"), but he did gun down suspicions that the flick will involve an Internet-fueled terrorism plot. "No," he insisted. "That's just a rumor." ... Please, just don't let it suck too much
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yippie kay yay Motherf&cker!
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Yippee-ki-yaying in a senior center?
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CAÑON CITY - The mountains produced an answered prayer late Tuesday in the form of a tired 8- year-old boy who survived four days alone in the rugged high country.
Evan Thompson was located by a search team from Vail Mountain Rescue aboard an all-terrain vehicle about 4:20 p.m. Tuesday at Hole in the Rock Gulch, roughly five miles northwest from the mesa-top campsite he ran away from Saturday morning after a breakfast of Lucky Charms, an orange and a glass of milk. "He's alive and well," said an elated Zak Slutzky of Western State Mountain Rescue in Gunnison. "He's completely unharmed."
Evan told his foster mother that one of the nights he was missing he spent in a tree. Another, he said, he slept on a rock.
PROSSER, Wash.
"The Marmots are coming, the Marmots are coming!" Seniors living in Wine Country Villa probably wish they had gotten such a warning.
Residents say the oversized rodents are swarming through the 75-unit development of manufactured homes near the airport of this Eastern Washington town, burrowing under homes, fouling front porches with their droppings and - according to some unconfirmed accounts - attacking people.
Many species of marmots, including some known as woodchucks and groundhogs, are found across North America. They are closely related to ground squirrels and are among the largest of rodents, some reaching 30 pounds. "Can you imagine what they'd do to cats?" asked Dick Bain, 78, a Wine Country resident who dispatched two of the animals with a shovel Friday.
I can only hope.
Bain said he doesn't like killing animals but had to act after finding two marmots beneath a stack of carpentry wood next to his house. "My neighbor got tackled (by marmots) two years ago and got chewed up pretty bad," Bain told the Yakima Herald-Republic. The account could not be verified by the newspaper. Bain would not identify the man, saying his neighbor was embarrassed.
Translation: urban myth. But a funny one.
Also unconfirmed was an account that a resident got badly bitten after reaching into a water tank to remove a marmot that only appeared to be dead.
Sneaky, dag-burned marmot!
Ray Borgens, 81, said marmots leave unsavory calling cards in his carport, burrow under his house and once scooted up a ladder he left leaning against the roof. "They were snooping around the air ducts up there," Borgens said.
Wait til they learn to use camoflauge.
Concerned about the droppings, which Bain said often are tracked indoors "even though you think you've cleaned it off," residents say officials in the Benton-Franklin Health Department have told them there's nothing the agency can do because the animals pose no public health risk, including the spread of infectious disease.
Police add that town ordinances prohibit residents from shooting the critters.
Isn't this what 14 year old boys and .22 rimfires are for?
Officials in the state Department of Fish and Wildlife say residents likely will have to pay if they want to eradicate the infestation, and then only after clearing some bureaucratic hurdles. First, they must file a complaint with the agency's Yakima office, which then may refer them to a certified exterminator.
Who can't shoot them.
"These are not free services," agency spokeswoman Madonna Luers said. "We do not have the staff to go out there and deal with these situations."
"Here marmot, here marmot, here boy, see the nice carrot ..."
To make the area less attractive to marmots, she advised securing garbage cans and other potential sources of food or nesting material.
There goes the neighborhood.
She also advised trying to avoid marmot confrontations. "They've probably become pretty accustomed to people," Luers said, "and it's not an animal you want to tangle with."
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I used to feed them rodents in the summer up in the mountains, they can grow real fat (not large, fat, furry soccer balls-like, hé hé).
Funny thing is, they're quite aggressive when threatened, as noted in the article, they can easily make dogs flee, and they whistle very well to alert the others.
On a final note, one of my farmer relatives (last one remaining) had a pet marmot with her for a long time, used to sit at the table and eat with her, using its paws to chew. This was long ago, I don't remember it, but it is still with her... stuffed, that is.
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Damm woodchucks, digging burrows in our hay pasture for the horses to break a leg in, building mounds that dull the mower blades. Hate them, we do.
Of course, on the farm we had no restrictions on shooting them. Savage Model 99, 250-3000 with a 87 grain softpoint moving at 3000 fps. The chucks looked like you shoved a hand grenade up their ass.
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I used to use a sweet Remington 222 Magnum with Leupold optics. If you catch 'em right under the chin, it flips them backwards out of their hole.
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I don't have trouble with groundhogs on my farm. That's the ONLY thing the coyotes are good for. 22 hollowpoints work well, as does an AR-15. Their hides make excellant shoe-strings, banjo heads, and decent bass strings. They DO NOT taste good.
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#8 - Something tells me you have FAR too much time on your hands. ;-p
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Lol - not really, I just took the week off. I couldn't resist the opportunity this thread presented, lol.
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All right. Who will be the first to come up with the Marmot-sniper picture? I'ma bettin' that Fred's photoshop will be workin' overtime on that one. The kitty sniper is hilarious enough, but the mental image of a marmot sniper sends me over the edge. I can't wait!
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All right. Who will be the first to come up with the Marmot-sniper picture? I'ma bettin' that Fred's photoshop will be workin' overtime on that one. The kitty sniper is hilarious enough, but the mental image of a marmot sniper sends me over the edge. I can't wait!
Ok, since I'm on a pic-posting tangent :
Not really a marmot, but a sniper rodent anyway (HT .com for this one IIRC)
Then a stoner marmot (not that I condone drug use, of course)
#14
Btw, there is a relatively famous clip of "ennemy snipers" being sniped by .50, which is actually some groundhogs (or a marmot-like obnoxious critter) being shot at a long distance and literally blown to pieces, I don't remember if this was posted here.
#1
I remember seeing somewhere that about 2% of the men in the world are his descendants. The part in the article about the mild-mannered accountant reminded me of the opening chapter of "Hitchhiker's Guide..." ;)
#3
This is idiot science. That is unless Genghis was the first to have the 'Y' chromisone(sp) in question.
And how could that be ? Did he have no brothers, no father, uncles, no males at all preceeding him in this chromisone chain ? Idiot science.
#4
The last of Genghis's descendents who had power were the Moghul emperors of India, who claimed descent from Timur (Tamerlane) who was a descendent of Genghis.
The last one, Bahadur Shah, was exiled by the British to Burma.
His direct male descendent, erstwhile heir to the title of Padshah-i-Hind, who considered themselves Caliphs, equal in stature to the Ottoman Sultans or the Persian Shah-e-Shahs, was last seen working as a cook in somebody's kitchen in Delhi.
A distant relative took pity on him and carried him to the UAE. Dunno if he is still working in a kitchen.
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It's not even about idiot science, wxjames, it's about any idiot with £195:
"Any man who is interested in finding out whether he is descended from Genghis Khan can be tested by Oxford Ancestors for £195."
#1
Geez, I seem to remember sitting in classes of (gasp!) un-air conditioned schools on some pretty hot days this time of the year (90+ degrees). The teachers just opened the windows (ACK! Dust and Pollutants!) and used a couple of fans (NOT finger-safe).
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You had fans? We had to blow on each other to cool off. And somehow I always got Poopy Breath Pete :((.
And you could open the windows! Geeze... that would have been the lap of luxuery for us!
#3
Undersize your heating and cooling systems by 20% and get an energy conservation award -- great deal, until it gets hot or cold outside. That single central unit approach reduces conplications too -- until that single unit fails. Brilliant.
#5
Well at least you had windows. When I was growing up all we had to look forward to was the no-cone man. Who sold sugar water chilled to 54 F. After a long day of picking kitty fluff it was glorious. Course carrying it around in a cupped hand was tricky.
#6
Ah, the hot-as-hell popping asphalt bubbles with yer toes version of "I walked 4 miles to school through the snow, barefoot... uphill both ways..." gig. Verrrrry good. :)
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Is it too hot because of Global Warming? Back in my day we had global cooling, now that was rough. New ice age, bundled in dead polar bear skins we had to kill with our bare hands! Damn Bush and Haliburton for ruining the good ol' days.
#12
we lived too far to walk so we rode the School Bus, #29. Hot as beejeeburs in September, October, March, April, and May. Pretty danged cold in January. It was a coal-fired school bus and we all had to take turns shoveling coal into the firebox. THAT'S hot work.
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The hot days at my school where offset by the water that I had to swim through uphill both ways.
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Wow--this school has surpassed all expectations! Its energy savings now are 100%!
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Seriously, guys, a lot of the modern schools in this part of the country don't have windows to open. They look like bunkers.
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Seriously, I got in big trouble one time in grade school, the afternoon sun was coming in the windows and blinding me, so I got up and pulled the shade down.
You'd have thought I shot the teacher for all the ruckus, it turned out that the principal had an order that all window shades had to be the same all across the side of the school facing the street, (To make the school look good from the street)
I asked "Why not just pull the shades all down?"
Big mistake, how dare I "talk back." (Strike Two)
After my father heard about this, I didn't stay in that school any longer, got sent to a far better school about a week later.
I pity those "Sheep" who didn't speak up, I escaped Public School due to my father realizing just how incompetent they really were.
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IN A paddy-lined valley in the far north of Japan is a municipal signpost inscribed: Tomb of Christ: next left. Follow the winding path up into the forest and there, sure enough, is a simple mound with a large wooden cross labelled as the grave of Jesus. Nearby is a tomb commemorating Isukiri, Christs brother, adorned with a plastic poinsettia Christmas wreath.
For two millennia the farming village of Shingo claims to have protected a tradition that Jesus spent most of his life in Japan. The village is the home of Sajiro Sawaguchi, a man in his eighties who claims to be a direct descendant of Jesus and whose family has always owned the land in which it is said that Christ is buried.
Mr Sawaguchi emerged as Jesuss heir only in 1935, when a priest in Ibaraki discovered a document in ancient Japanese purporting to be Christs will. This document supposedly identifies Shingo as the location of the tombs of Jesus and Isukiri. The claim is widely believed. About 40,000 Japanese visit the site every year. Two years ago it was presented with a plaque by Jerusalem, and next Sunday it will host the annual Christ festival of traditional Japanese dance.
According to the account in the Christ Museum next to the tombs, Christ arrived in Japan at the age of 21 and learnt Japanese before returning to Judaea 12 years later to engage in his mission and preach about the holy land of Japan. The official Shingo history is that Jesuss place on the Cross was casually taken by his brother, leaving Christ free to return to Japan. On his return he fell in love with Miyuko, a local girl, and lived happily with his family among the rice fields until dying aged 106.
Norihide Nagano, the straight-faced curator of the tombs, says that the theory that the grave does contain the remains of Jesus is supported by several pieces of evidence. There is the local tradition, dating back hundreds of years, of drawing a charcoal cross on babies heads; and ancient kimonos made in the area incorporated a Star of David.
The upkeep of the site is paid for out of the profits of a local yoghurt factory, and Mr Nagano agrees that The Da Vinci Code will probably boost Shingos coffers. The village shop is already doing a roaring trade in Christ-branded saké. Did you enjoy the museum? asks Mr Nagano. If you did, I recommend you go to Ishikawa district. They have the tomb of Moses there.
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phil_b
go to "http://www.chrismoore.com/" and check out "Lamb"...
then when you are done laughing...
his latest book "Its a dirty job" is his second best and worth enjoying.. (about a man who becomes a "grim reaper".)
#3
How did it compare to "Mort," "Soul Music," "Hogfather," or "Dead Like Me"?
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...this article reminds me of something P.T. Barnum used ta say....either way, brought a smile to my face. If people think they're visiting JC's final resting place and they walk away w/a positive vibe and maybe do something good for their fellow man because of it, I'm cool w/that - there are certainly worse things in life.
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Man, that makes me wish that Nagano gets the winter Olympics again. Maybe I can find Socrates or big Mo's tombs around there, too. And, phil b, I thought exactly the same thing...wonder when Dan Brown will write a book on Christ's galivanting in Japan with that young girl?
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You can never have enough severed penis stories.
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - A man who apparently severed his penis in an attempt to convince his wife that he was faithful to her was recovering after surgery to reattach the organ at a northern Malaysian hospital, a news report said Tuesday.
The 41-year-old man, who was not identified, got into an argument last Friday with his wife, who found a text message on his mobile phone from another woman. The man was heard by his son shouting that he wanted to prove he was not having an affair, the New Straits Times reported.
The assertion was followed by loud screams and the man emerged from his room bleeding profusely, his 14-year-old son quoted as saying. His wife rushed him to hospital.
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Dutch pedophiles are launching a political party to push for a cut in the legal age for sexual relations to 12 from 16 and the legalization of child pornography and sex with animals, sparking widespread outrage.
The Charity, Freedom and Diversity (NVD) party said on its Web site it would be officially registered Wednesday, proclaiming: "We are going to shake The Hague awake!"
The party said it wanted to cut the legal age for sexual relations to 12 and eventually scrap the limit altogether.
"A ban just makes children curious," Ad van den Berg, one of the party's founders, told the Algemeen Dagblad (AD) newspaper.
"We want to make pedophilia the subject of discussion," he said, adding the subject had been a taboo since the 1996 Marc Dutroux child abuse scandal in neighboring Belgium.
"We want to get into parliament so we have a voice. Other politicians only talk about us in a negative sense, as if we were criminals," Van den Berg told Reuters.
The Netherlands, which already has liberal policies on soft drugs, prostitution and gay marriage, was shocked by the plan.
An opinion poll published Tuesday showed that 82 percent wanted the government to do something to stop the new party, while 67 percent said promoting pedophilia should be illegal.
"They make out as if they want more rights for children. But their position that children should be allowed sexual contact from age 12 is of course just in their own interest," anti-pedophile campaigner Ireen van Engelen told the AD daily.
Right-wing lawmaker Geert Wilders said he had asked the government to investigate whether a party with such "sick ideas" could really be established, ANP news agency reported.
Kees van deer Staaij, a member of the Christian SGP party, also demanded action: "Pedophilia and child pornography should be taboo in every constitutional state. Breaking that will just create more victims and more serious ones."
The party wants private possession of child pornography to be allowed although it supports the ban on the trade of such materials. It also supports allowing pornography to be broadcast on daytime television, with only violent pornography limited to the late evening.
Toddlers should be given sex education and youths aged 16 and up should be allowed to appear in pornographic films and prostitute themselves. Sex with animals should be allowed although abuse of animals should remain illegal, the NVD said.
The party also said everybody should be allowed to go naked in public and promotes legalizing all soft and hard drugs and free train travel for all.
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NAPLES, Fla. -- A 6-year-old special education student who kicked a Naples teacher's aide and spent several hous in juvenile jail is facing felony battery charges. 
PROSSER, Wash.
