So how dumb is this ...

The PEI Suicide Hotline has adjusted its hours. It is now open weekdays from 9 am to 5 pm. Now correct me if I'm wrong, but don't people often commit suicide because they feel that they are all alone in the world? How is it going to go over when one of these people calls in and gets the message: "The Suicide Hotline is closed. Please don't kill yourself. Our office hours are ..."

Sheesh. I wonder who's gonna loose their job over this one.

News of the Very Strange

CHARLOTTE, N.C. May 25, 2005 — An 86-year-old woman was jailed after police said she called 911 dispatchers 20 times in a little more than a half-hour all to complain that a pizza parlor wouldn't deliver.

Dorothy Densmore was charged with misusing the 911 system, a jail spokeswoman said.

She told dispatchers Sunday that a local pizza shop refused to deliver a pie to her south Charlotte apartment, said Officer Mandy Giannini. She also complained that someone at the shop called her a "crazy old coot," Giannini said.

Densmore wanted them arrested. Instead, police came to arrest her, and she resisted, Giannini said.

It's unusual for someone to face charges for nonemergency calls, Giannini said. But on Sunday, Densmore kept calling 911, even after she was told to stop, Giannini said.

When an officer arrived at her apartment, the 5-foot-tall, 98-pound woman attacked him, Giannini said. Densmore scratched him, kicked and bit his hand, she said.

Densmore also is charged with resisting a public officer and two counts of misusing the 911 system, jail records show.

More weird shit

WAXAHACHIE, Texas - A North Texas school district has apologized to a student identified only as "Black Girl" in a high school yearbook photo of the school's National Honor Society.

All white students are identified by name in the photograph in the Waxahachie High School yearbook distributed Friday.

The teen identified as "Black Girl" is the only black student in the photo.

"I was embarrassed," said the student, Shadoyia Jones. "I was disappointed that they didn't catch the error."

Waxahachie school district spokeswoman Candace Ahlfinger said the district and the school board issued an immediate apology when the caption was reported.

Ahlfinger said the caption apparently was intended as a placeholder until the yearbook staff could identify the student.

She told the Waxahachie Daily Light that the label was a poor choice, but it was not meant maliciously nor meant to be printed.

"If it was a placeholder, why would you put that?" Jones asked. "Anything else would have worked for me but that."

Ahlfinger said the district is having the four pages affected by the mistake reprinted as soon as possible.