But he did it with a baseball bat, so it’s totally a sports story now. What I love about this video is that dude just gets himself warmed up and then just stops. He has great power for a lefty; I’d say that he’s been juicing, but he’s not showing any other symptoms of steroid use.

Westley Strellis has been hit himself – with 29 counts of criminal damage to property in nthe second degree.

Witnesses tell police he grabbed a metal baseball bat from the sporting goods section yesterday, walked a couple of aisles over to the electronics area – and started whaling on the displays.

Police say the TV sets are valued at over $22,000. –NBC2 Ft. Myers.

Georgia is sort of no-man’s-land in terms of Walmart. People on the east coast generally loathe Walmart, and people in the midwest generally like them. But stop in think, this guy would have had to visit two different stores to do this anyplace else. It’s time we starting appreciating these retail superpowers a bit more, or at least until somebody starts shooting up the discount clothing section with a Remington shotgun after being turned down for cough medicine at the pharmacy. Thanks, Ape. Vid via AP.

I don’t really know how you feel about teacher-student sex or coach-player sex at the high school level. Personally, I have a hard time looking at some 16-year-old kid as a “victim” when he’s hitting some hot 23-year-old teacher. But that’s me. And, apparently now, the state of Georgia, whose landmark decision from its state supreme court has changed the landscape on age-of-consent laws in that state.

Melissa Lee Chase, a former high school softball coach, had a 10-year sentence overturned by that court last month. The conviction, stemming from a relationship with a 16-year-old at her school, was overturned since Chase was not allowed to use the 16-year-old’s consent as a defense. From The School Law Blog at Education Week:

The age of consent for sex in Georgia is 16, although school personnel are subject to the state law, revised in 2006, that bars them from sex with those under their supervision. The 16-year-old was in Chase’s class, but their romantic relationship began later. The girl testified that she had initiated and “pushed” the relationship with the teacher.

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