Junior High Teacher with ‘Farting’ Chair a Big Hit in Peoria
Number of FBI agents assigned to monitor a Denver peace activist group whenever it served vegetarian meals to the homeless: 8
Number of agents when the group added meat to its menu: 1
Number of agents when only donuts were served and anyone present could have unlimited donuts: 23
Average daily attendance in the classroom of a Peoria seventh grade teacher whose desk chair made a farting noise every time she moved: 97 percent.
Attendance after school administrators provided her with a “silent” chair: 68 percent.
Number of teen-age girls who took off their bras and threw them at the members of a “boy band” playing at a shopping mall in Duluth, Minnesota: 35
Number of middle-aged women who did the same thing: 76
Number of Duluth police called to quell the resulting disturbance: 12