Brickbat: Not the Sharpest Knives

Officials at Wamsutta Middle School in
Massachusetts suspended Morgan LaPlaume for one day after they
caught her with a
butter knife. The girl was only using the knife to cut a pear,
but officials say the school has a zero tolerance policy on
knives.

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Brickbat: Pirate Radio

Zimbabwean police have been
seizing
radios in villages across the country. Officials say the radios
are being used to spread hate speech. But human rights activists
worry it's part of a clamp down on media before elections later
this year.

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Brickbat: You'll Put an Eye Out with That

Kitchen staff at England's Castle
View School have been ordered to no longer
cut flapjacks, or what Americans call granola, into triangles.
The order came after one student was hit in the face by a flapjack
thrown by another student. Staff must now cut the flapjacks into
squares or rectangles. Officials say the triangular flapjacks are a
safety risk, but others note that square flapjacks have an even
greater number of pointy edges.

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