Transit pervs on notice
Gov. Cuomo has signed legislation that increases the penalty for forcible touching in New York’s masstransit systems.
The new legislation could send offenders behind bars for up to a year, he announced Saturday.
The law says a person can be convicted for subjecting someone else to sexual con tact to gratify the perpetrator’s sexual desire or to degrade the victim.
Cuomo said commuters have been victimized when someone grinds against them on crowded trains because they cannot flee their attacker.
Previously, the maximum penalty was three months in jail.
An 8yearold New Jersey school girl got suspended from school — for wearing the wrong shade of green.
The Winslow Township School rules state that shirts must be “white, dark green or navy,” so when Kylie, whose surname was withheld, wore a kelly green shirt, school authorities banned her from returning to school the next day.
Perhaps it’s better to keep the past buried, as staff at Michigan’s Bay County Historical Museum learned when they dug up a time capsule that had been buried 50 years agi.
Locals had written letters and included keepsakes in the 1965 time capsule, but disappointed museum officials found mainly mold, water and rotting documents after opening the buried treasure last week.
Police in Kingston, England, stumbled across 150 marijuana plants reaching over five feet high.
“Whoever set this up used a really remote spot; the only way to get there was a 20minute walk through wasteland,” said Constable Sarah Henderson.
Officers tweeted photos of the plants, which will be destroyed, accompanied with the hashtags #TheseAren’tXmasTrees
and #saynotodrugs. A British couple narrowly avoided jail time after performing lewd sex acts in their car outside a McDonald’s for about 20 minutes.
“Your animalistic lust led the two of you to lose any shred of selfrespect,” said a judge, who gave the pair suspended sentences.