news feed; Saturday, January 7th, 2012
Saturday, January 7th, 2012
Weather Cloudy with sunny periods. A few showers likely developing in the afternoon.. High 5°C and a low of 4°C (41deg;F/39°F)
Current Moon Phase: Waxing Gibbous
Morning sirens go off at 9:10am, and evening sirens are at 5:27 pm.
News
- Riot at Grant Stadium Leads to a Literal Nosebleed Section
After the anti-climactic conclusion of the Industrial Destroyers landslide win over the Sector Six Saints, hockey fans in the upper tier stands broke into an all-out brawl the Siren’s Pull sporting world hasn’t seen since the infamous Baseball Summer Classic of ‘92. Most violence at Port hockey games happens on the ice, but while many assume the fight erupted over a spilled beer or voliatile AGI and SERO fans seated side by side, eyewitnesses claim that the entire section simply broke into an all out, shirts off free-for-all when a “horrendous noise from the very depths of hell” played over the loudspeakers positioned just behind the bleachers. The sound technician claims he “leaned on a slider, but had no idea something like that would happen”. Cost estimates for powers-related damages are still being calculated.
- Local student goes missing... maybe
An ordinary school day at Fable Way Elementary School turned into a panic, Friday, when teachers discovered the disappearance of 6-year-old Ian Matteo, a 1st grader at the school. Ian had been in trouble for rulebreaking during recess. and his teacher first noticed that the child had disappeared while handing out papers after lunch. Ian's absence sparked a frantic schoolwide search for the child, which turned up nothing. Tellingly, Ian's backpack and coat had been taken off of their hooks.
Calls to police finally sent two SPPD detectives to the school, where they began to dig for their contacts when they received a phone call from a concerned neighbor. The boy was found unharmed in his house, watching television and eating a box of crackers. Ian had climbed the fence at recess and ran the mile back to his house (his physical education teachers have noted an affinity for superspeed), hoping to catch his mother before his school referral reached her to tell his side of the story. His mother was still at work.
"The school handled everything just fine," said the assistant principal of the school. "We're just glad little Ian only decided to take an afternoon off, and is still safe and sound." Ian will be serving detention time for the next week to make up for leaving school grounds.
- A second threatening call, this time received at the Landlord's office at the Tower Apartments at 3am last night, warned: "Surrender your Core Artifacts to the city or die! If those newcomers don't drop their balls, we'll cut 'em off!" (Judging by sniggering in the background, and comments on a popular student social network, this was probably not the same anonymous who contacted City Hall, but some very inebriated prank callers from Hawthorne University's fraternity.)
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Weather Cloudy with sunny periods. A few showers likely developing in the afternoon.. High 5°C and a low of 4°C (41deg;F/39°F)
Current Moon Phase: Waxing Gibbous
Morning sirens go off at 9:10am, and evening sirens are at 5:27 pm.
News
- Riot at Grant Stadium Leads to a Literal Nosebleed Section
After the anti-climactic conclusion of the Industrial Destroyers landslide win over the Sector Six Saints, hockey fans in the upper tier stands broke into an all-out brawl the Siren’s Pull sporting world hasn’t seen since the infamous Baseball Summer Classic of ‘92. Most violence at Port hockey games happens on the ice, but while many assume the fight erupted over a spilled beer or voliatile AGI and SERO fans seated side by side, eyewitnesses claim that the entire section simply broke into an all out, shirts off free-for-all when a “horrendous noise from the very depths of hell” played over the loudspeakers positioned just behind the bleachers. The sound technician claims he “leaned on a slider, but had no idea something like that would happen”. Cost estimates for powers-related damages are still being calculated.
- Local student goes missing... maybe
An ordinary school day at Fable Way Elementary School turned into a panic, Friday, when teachers discovered the disappearance of 6-year-old Ian Matteo, a 1st grader at the school. Ian had been in trouble for rulebreaking during recess. and his teacher first noticed that the child had disappeared while handing out papers after lunch. Ian's absence sparked a frantic schoolwide search for the child, which turned up nothing. Tellingly, Ian's backpack and coat had been taken off of their hooks.
Calls to police finally sent two SPPD detectives to the school, where they began to dig for their contacts when they received a phone call from a concerned neighbor. The boy was found unharmed in his house, watching television and eating a box of crackers. Ian had climbed the fence at recess and ran the mile back to his house (his physical education teachers have noted an affinity for superspeed), hoping to catch his mother before his school referral reached her to tell his side of the story. His mother was still at work.
"The school handled everything just fine," said the assistant principal of the school. "We're just glad little Ian only decided to take an afternoon off, and is still safe and sound." Ian will be serving detention time for the next week to make up for leaving school grounds.
- A second threatening call, this time received at the Landlord's office at the Tower Apartments at 3am last night, warned: "Surrender your Core Artifacts to the city or die! If those newcomers don't drop their balls, we'll cut 'em off!" (Judging by sniggering in the background, and comments on a popular student social network, this was probably not the same anonymous who contacted City Hall, but some very inebriated prank callers from Hawthorne University's fraternity.)
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