Oh, look -- my part of the world's in the news again.

[dameruth]

Here's a serious piece of local WTF-ery, which just made the Yahoo News page and ABC. Two of our grad students (who take a morning class over at WSU) happened on the scene of one of the hit-and-run incidents shortly after it happened and said their first thought was that a major water pipe must have frozen and broken, to account for the chaos and

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[countessaleska]

Oh, nice.

Another person to make us look sane.

This guy in the video is a real charmer.

Although at least the article says what I've said for years, is that Caffiene is the most used drug, not alcohol as all the training films say.

I have seen the gamer and student cultures swigging the stuff down by the gallon and wondered what long term affects it could have. Guess there are potentially more major short term affects too.

As for me, its kinda nice being able to get drunk off of apple juice and only resorting to heavier goods like mountain dew if I really felt like getting wasted.

Oh, and I feel terrible for those kids hurt on finals week. I mean, not ALL the students are insane, the one on the sidewalk was most likely not one of the insane crossers-- I can't believe from the looks of that windshield that the two pedestrians ONLY got broken legs.

Of course, bad breaks can cause life long disabilities, pain, and trouble, so not that breaks aren't bad, but breaks beat dead, right?

[ladymustapha]

...he appeared at the Starbucks very early, wearing his pajamas without his cell phone, without anything, and he...

I never wear pajamas without my cellphone. He must be insane. :P