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YORK, Pa. — A math lesson this morning at York’s Smith Middle School involved sixth-graders and more than 5,000 rulers.

It took students about two hours to line up 5,280 rulers end to end outside the school to demonstrate how many feet are in a mile. It wasn’t the straightest line, but the point was made.

“This is like a once-in-a-lifetime experience doing this ruler stuff. And it’s something that we’re probably not going to forget,” said sixth-grader Jose Vasquez.

“It’s a good way to teach students, and it is a fun way. We always do a lot of fun stuff in class,” said sixth-grader Breyonna Small.

York Mayor John Brenner helped students put down the final ruler.

The students got the rulers from within the York City School Districts. Parents and others also volunteered to donate some.

York, PA right up the road from me.

Not too straight is it?
A good way to teach students what? How not to make a straight line? That each ruler is a foot which is why it took 5,280 rulers.
Two hours, huh.
Did the students learn where the length of a mile came from?
Or how Britain modified it to fit their needs? Or how to convert a mile to metric since pretty much the rest of the world doesn’t use miles?

IRVING, Texas — The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission has taken its fight against drunken driving to a new level. TABC agents, along with Irving police, targeted 36 bars and clubs Friday, arresting some allegedly intoxicated patrons before they departed the businesses.

The officers and agents also kept watch on bartenders who might have over-served patrons.

Agents arrested 30 people Friday night. Most of the suspects now face charges of public intoxication.

The agents and Irving police officers traveled from bar to bar and worked undercover, according to an NBC 5 report.

The report also said that some agents shared tables with suspected drunken patrons. Some patrons were subjected to field sobriety tests inside bars.

Agents and officers said the operation represented an effort to reduce drunken driving.

Sgt. Chris Hamilton, of the TABC, said some inebriated bar patrons “end up killing themselves or someone else” after departing the businesses.

I am all being hard on drunk drivers, but this is just insane.
So what is the legal limit for someone sitting in a bar?

Can’t go wrong with cats.

It almost seemed like a miracle to Haldis Gundersen when she turned on her kitchen faucet this weekend and found the water had turned into beer.

Two flights down, employees and customers at the Big Tower Bar were horrified when water poured out of the beer taps.

By an improbable feat of clumsy plumbing, someone at the bar in Kristiandsund, western Norway, had accidentally hooked the beer hoses to the water pipes for Gundersen’s apartment.

“We had settled down for a cozy Saturday evening, had a nice dinner, and I was just going to clean up a little,” Gundersen, 50, told The Associated Press by telephone Monday. “I turned on the kitchen faucet and beer came out.”

However, Gundersen said the beer was flat and not tempting, even in a country where a half-liter (pint) can cost about 25 kroner ($3.75) in grocery stores.

Per Egil Myrvang, of the local beer distributor, said he helped bartenders reconnect the pipes by telephone.

“The water and beer pipes do touch each other, but you have to be really creative to connect them together,” he told local newspapers.

Gundersen joked about having the pub send up free beer for her next party.

“But maybe it would be easier if they just invited me down for a beer,” she said.

The new guy made me do this.

Shootem in the toodles!