News of the Weird

Compiled and Ridiculed by Joel Frady

Prom Suspension
Tyler Frost just wanted what any other 17-year-old wants: to go to prom with his girlfriend. But Frost, a senior at Heritage Christian School, had to get permission from Heritage principal Tim Englund in order to attend the prom at Findlay High School, where his girlfriend attends.

But when Frost presented Englund with the slip to sign, Englund refused because the school forbids dancing, hand-holding and listening to rock music. Englund later brought the matter to a school committee, who decided to threaten Frost with suspension and incompletes on remaining assignments if he attended the prom.

On Saturday, Frost attended the prom, and the school followed through with their suspension. Frost was banned from the school's graduation ceremony, but will receive his diploma after he completes his final exams.

Frost said that he didn't feel that attending the prom was wrong.

"If they're going to make this big a fuss about me going to the dance," he told reporters, "I don't want to imagine what would have happened if I had asked permission to attend a Bengals game or, heaven forbid, the local production of High School Musical."

Kevin Bacon could not be reached for comment on the matter.

Prom shots
Students at Warwick High School in Lititz, Pa., were given complimentary souvenirs as they left the school's annual prom. To the shock and embarrassment of school officials, the souvenirs weren't the usual picture frames or key chains - instead, the prom committee gave out more than 450 shot glasses.

Assistant Principal Scott Galen said that the order form the school signed said "prom souvenir," and that it didn't identify the items as shot glasses. He noted that the memento sent the "wrong message" to students.

Galen said it could have been worse, however, and wasn't as bad as the school's 2005 prom memento:, a t-shirt that read: "What happens at prom …"

Missing wallet
The caper was going as planned for Albert Perkins on Thursday, May 7, when he attempted to rob a First Federal Bank in Kansas City, Mo. Perkins walked into the bank, handed a bag to the teller and demanded the $100 bills. The teller followed Perkins' orders, placing $3,100 into the bag, before Perkins made his escape.

It didn't take police long to identify Perkins, however, since he left a giant clue at the bank: his wallet. The teller and a customer at the bank identified Perkins as the suspect after seeing his driver's license and another photograph in the wallet.

They were also able to identify the $3,100 found on the man as the stolen money because the envelope containing the bounty was labeled "money I just stole from the bank."

Outta the way!
An 81-year-old man in La Corsse, Wis., has been charged with hit-and-run causing injury after attempting to send a message to a slow-walking pedestrian. Police reported that the man nudged a 54-year-old woman with his car twice as she was walking in a movie theater parking lot.

The pedestrian claims that she was bruised but not seriously hurt in the incident. The driver denies hitting the woman, claiming that he was driving behind her when she "turned around and went ballistic."

The driver is not due in court until early June, but local police are using the opportunity to remind drivers to be courteous.

"If someone's walking slowly and won't get out of the way, try the horn," one officer said, "and if that doesn't work, try a cattle prod."