News Briefs

Dirty feet = Death by fire

A Chinese man was recently killed by his wife for not washing his feet before getting in bed. The two, Wang and his wife Luo, had just had a drunken argument, and she saw him get into bed without washing his feet. In an inebriated state of rage, she set fire to the bed sheets he was sleeping in. “When he awoke, the two began fighting before a very drunk Wang collapsed.” Luo left the room as the fire engulfed his body and killed him. The couple was recently married on February 2, and was known for constantly fighting over minor things. Luo has already been arrested by Chinese authorities.

Don’t dye your poodle pink

A woman in Boulder, Colorado may potentially have to pay a $1,000 fine since she dyed her poodle pink. Joy Douglas defended her reason for dyeing the poodle because she wanted to bring attention to breast cancer. She said that she used Kool-Aid and beet juice to make the dye mixture. The city ticketed her, citing an ordinance that made dyeing animals illegal. The ordinance was put in place to prevent animals such as chicks and rabbits from being dyed during Easter. Her court hearing that was scheduled for Tuesday was delayed until April so that she could hire a lawyer. She brought her dog to court that day but was forced to leave it outside the courthouse.

1 in 4 teen girls have an STD

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revealed on Tuesday that 1 in 4 teenage girls have a sexually transmitted disease (STD). The most common STD is a virus that can cause cervical cancer. Almost half of the black teens studied had at least one STD in comparison to 20 percent the white and Mexican-American teens. Only half of the girls in the study admitted to having sex. Of the ones that did admit to having sex, 40 percent had an STD. Many people are blaming “the national policy of promoting abstinence-only programs.” The same blame was used last year when the government announced that the teen birth rate went up between 2005 and 2006 for the first time in fifteen years.