HOW BIZARRE NEWS (9/15/08)

A 33-YEAR-OLD WOMAN IMPERSONATED HER DAUGHTER . SO SHE COULD GO TO HIGH SCHOOL AND BECOME A CHEERLEADER???

Last week, 33-year-old Wendy Brown of Green Bay, Wisconsin, was arrested for felony identity theft . . . after she pretended to be her 15-year-old daughter and enrolled in high school. Apparently, Wendy's daughter lives in Nevada with her grandmother. So Wendy used her daughter's name and social security number to enroll at Ashwaubenon High School. Wendy even joined the cheerleading squad, and went to a pool party at the cheerleading coach's house. But after Wendy skipped four days of class last week, school officials started looking into her background. When they learned what was really going on . . . they called the police and had Wendy arrested. On Friday, a judge set Wendy's bond at $8,000. If she's convicted, she could get up to SIX years in prison. (New York Daily News / KBCI News 2 - Boise)

(--So why did Wendy do it? Apparently, she felt like she missed out on her own high school experience . . . and it was something she regretted.)(--And get this . . . according to Wendy's math teacher, Wendy didn't LOOK like a high school student, but she was so behind emotionally and academically . . . that it didn't seem like too much of a stretch that she was a high school student.)

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It's no secret . . . New York City tap water ISN'T the deadly poison you might think it is. In fact, it's consistently rated one of the cleanest tap waters in the country. (--And as any New Yorker will tell you, it's better to order regular tap water when you go to a restaurant there, instead of buying the overpriced bottled stuff the servers are always trying to push.) Well, now you can actually BUY New York tap water . . . by the bottle. A new company called "Tap'd NY" has started purifying, bottling, and selling New York tap water. According to their website, they, "do not deliver to Fiji or France . . . they can keep their water and we'll keep ours." (--You can order some New York tap water here . . .) http://tapdny.com/ (Boingboing.net)