The kids at the Ridgewood Elementary School in Portland, Ore., are really psyched – it’s not every day you see your principal pucker up and kiss a frog on the lips.
But that’s exactly what Arlene Hirsch is going to do at a special assembly a week from Friday, making good on her pledge to kiss the slimy green amphibian if the kids raised $20,000 in the school’s annual gift-wrap sale.
The depth of Jeff Sohl’s and Rebecca Fringer’s commitment runs deep, real deep.
They were fishing in the middle of a 17-foot-deep lake in Freemont, Neb., when Rebecca’s engagement ring fell into the water.
While many couples would have just gotten a new ring, Jeff and Rebecca hired a team of scuba divers to comb the bottom.
Remarkably, they found it buried four inches under the muck.
If you think the waterways around Manhattan are yucky, get a load of this.
Milwaukee is about to shell out $2 million on a filtering system at a wastewater treatment plant in a bid to stop condoms from floating into Lake Michigan.
The issue drew attention when a fisherman saw hundreds of used condoms in the Milwaukee harbor. Since then, the city has paid somebody $460 a day to scoop the spent contraceptives out with long-handled nets.
A Florida hooker has been busted for selling herself for $8 and a Baby Ruth bar.
Cops say they’ve spent so much time arresting Melissa Collora, 23, of St. Petersburg over the past five years, she sometimes seems like family.
“The guys in vice have this joke,” one officer told the St. Petersburg Times. “We see Melissa naked more often than we see our wives.”
Volunteers in Holland agreed to have sex while researchers scanned their brains for a scientific study on sexual problems.
The men and women had to keep their heads perfectly still while engaged in the act – and had to finish within seven minutes.
Professor Marc Holstege said all went fine: “As we asked them all to practice before the scan was made, they all succeeded.”