ATLANTA The town of Hempstead, New York, has a message for school officials in Gwinnett (gwih-NET') County, Georgia: Look at a map. Named for Button Gwinnett, signer of the Declaration of Independence.
That's after a student at a suburban Atlanta high school was thrown out of class for wearing a shirt that said Hempstead on it. Hempstead is the name of his hometown. But school officials apparently thought it was a reference to marijuana. "But we thunk it was some sorta' pioneer mari-hoochie farm!"
His family says Terrell Jones was pulled out of class at Grayson High School Monday -- and wasn't allowed to return until he persuaded school officials to look up the town on the Internet. Good thing he's not from Intercourse, Pottsville, or Blue Ball, all in Pennsylvania; or Knob Lick, Kentucky.
A spokeswoman for the Long Island town says Hempstead is the nation's largest township, with 759-thousand residents, 22 villages and more than 142 square miles. Jones' family wants an apology. This is less serious, of course, but it reminds me of that British vigilante mob who burned a PEDIATRICIAN's house because they thought it was the same as PEDOPHILE.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
