I couldn't make this up if I tried. . .is hockey next?
Club plans croc-filled moat to control hooligans http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_735648.html?menu=news.quirkies
A Romanian football club is planning to control its rowdy fans by installing a crocodile-filled moat around the pitch.
Fourth division Steaua Nicolae Balcescu have been threatened with expulsion from the league after repeated pitch invasions and violent outbreaks.
Worried bosses think a moat, stocked with fully-grown hungry crocodiles, would be the only way to keep their fans off the pitch.
Club chairman Alexandra Cringus said: "This is not a joke. We can get crocodiles easy enough and feed them on meat from the local abattoir.
"The ditch is planned to be wide enough that no one could manage to jump over it. Anyone who attempted to do so would have to deal with the crocs.
"I think that the problem of fans running onto the pitch will be solved once and for all."
The moat would have electric pipes installed to heat the water during cold weather. And it would be far enough from the pitch to prevent players chasing the ball right into it.
The proposal is being considered by local authorities.
Story filed: 11:20 Friday 3rd January 2003
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Atlantic County Teacher Fired Over Internet Porn - 01/05/03 http://www.nbc10.com/news/1869872/detail.html
Social Studies Teacher Allegedly Viewed Porn Online While At Work
A tenured social studies teacher at the Atlantic County school district has been fired over viewing online pornography while at school.
Teacher has little recourse against online harassment - 01/03/03 http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/102684_paynton03.shtml
At first, James Paynton thought little of the vulgar messages that showed up on a Web site devoted to a boat owned by his family.
Paynton, a math and music teacher at John F. Kennedy Memorial High School, a private school in Burien, dismissed the messages, figuring they were sent to his Web site's guest book on a whim.
Creator: Web site just a joke - 01/02/03 http://news.mywebpal.com/partners/577/public/news413782.html
It was all about teenagers having fun with each other, joking around.
Seven local high school girls took pictures of each other, some posing semi-nude, then e-mailed the photos to some friends.
Those friends e-mailed them to other friends — and so on and so on.
Internet abuse leads to inquiry - 01/01/03 http://www.newsok.com/cgi-bin/show_article?ID=967797&pic=none&TP=getarticle
Police are investigating the harassment of a local Jewish family.
Sgt. Scott Singer, public information office for the Moore Police Department, said the investigation began about two weeks ago when the family found Nazi sentiments directed against them on the Internet.
Stalking suspect to undergo more psychological tests - 12/31/02 http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20021231-9999_1m31stalker.html
A former county social worker accused of stalking movie director Steven Spielberg and charged with making death threats against actress/singer Jennifer Love Hewitt is headed for a mental-competency hearing before
standing trial.
The Year The Criminals Took Over - 12/31/02 http://www.msnbc.com/news/849801.asp?cp1=1
This year brought no Melissa virus, no Code Red, no daylong outages at Microsoft or Yahoo, and few tales of high-profile hacks. So one might conclude computer crime was down in 2002. And that would be a mistake.
Because this year more than any other, fame-seeking teenage graffiti artists were pushed aside by real criminals who have discovered how user-friendly the Internet is. Millions of dollars are being stolen now
from innocent and naive Net users by con artists of every flavor, and there's reason to believe organized crime rings are now taking a sizable slice of that pie. And there's no reason to think things won't get even worse next year.
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