Friday, September 08, 2006

Yellow Jackets

Today a 3rd grader at my daughters school decided he had had enough of the honets coming in and out of a little hole in the ground. So he took a pine cone and shoved it in the hole. This accomplished the following as related by KGW NEWS :

Eighteen youths and two adults were stung by wasps at an elementary school in Boring on Friday morning. The Boring Fire Department responded to a two-alarm medical call to Naas Elementary School, located just north of Highway 212. A group of 1st through 3rd graders were out at recess when the attack took place. Some children were stung multiple times. Two adults were stung while coming to the aid of the children.

-By FRANK MUNGEAM, kgw.com Staff

Okay here is another news line. See if you can figure out the parrelells? Come on..school is back in session:

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Thirteen people, including a U.S. soldier, were killed over a 24-hour period in scattered attacks across Iraq, and 14 bodies showing signs of torture were found around the capital. A roadside bomb exploded Friday in central Baghdad, killing three people, including a mother and child, and wounding six, three of them police officers, Iraqi emergency police said. The attack appeared to target a police commander's convoy, a police official said. The American soldier died when his vehicle hit a roadside bomb while traveling south of Baghdad.

The number of U.S. troops killed in Iraq stands at 2,660 since the 2003 invasion. Seven American civilian contractors of the military also have died in the conflict.

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