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Cheeky consequences
A teenage boy in Mexico had his buttocks spray painted by a city official as punishment for damaging public property. Police, who caught the miscreant painting graffiti on a wall, turned him over to a city official, whose job is to hand out penalties for petty crime. The overzealous official was fired by the city’s mayor.
What not to wear
Madonna and her 13-year-old daughter, Lourdes, plan to launch a line of teen clothing called Material Girl. The collection will focus on affordable back-to-school clothes and be exclusively available at Macy’s stores. “The Material Girl collection was inspired and designed in collaboration with Madonna and her daughter Lourdes,” a March 11 news release said.
Kids fail fitness
Active Healthy Kids Canada gave the country’s children an F in fitness for the fourth straight year. The report, released April 27, said only 12 per cent of Canadian children and youth get the recommended 90 minutes of the daily physical activity. At the same time, kids are spending more and more time sitting in front of video games, computers and televisions—up to six hours on week days and more than seven hours on weekend days. The report said that children aged one to five are increasingly inactive. Despite a medical recommendation that children under the age of two have zero screen time, the report said that 90 per cent of children in that age range watch TV.
Sole-soothing
Students and teachers at a school in Jarocin, Poland, are sporting new spring footwear thanks to a bureaucrat’s intervention. Jerzy Wolski, who is in charge of Jarocin’s water system, convinced a local construction company to donate 1,000 pairs of rubber boots to the school. The benevolence resulted from concerns with the company’s muddy construction site located adjacent to the school. The rubber boots, said Wolski, “[will] give the children some joy and make their lives easier.”
