A High School Prank With a Purpose

Today is Tuesday, February 23, 2016.  We learn about a high school prank, G-rated character classes, and a dog helps wash a police car.

High School Prank With a Purpose

A teenager posing as a state senator toured a high school and spoke to a class, and school officials didn’t realize they were fooled until weeks later, Mohawk Local School District officials said Izaha Akins, of Marion, Ohio, visited the high school in December and claimed to be a lawmaker replacing another senator.

They realized they’d been duped when Republican Sen. David Burke, of Marysville, showed up to speak weeks later, as scheduled.

The Blade newspaper of Toledo reported that Akins said he was making a point about school security in small communities. He was charged recently with felony counts of telecommunications fraud and impersonating a peace officer.  “These country schools think it can’t happen to them,” Akins told The Blade in a brief interview.

G-Rated Classes

Duke put the characters from G-rated movies into classes based on their job.  They put the characters into classes based on their job. At the top are upper class characters: royalty, chief executives and celebrities.  The working class have jobs like soldiers, sailors, miners and sweeps. The lowest category is the jobless poor.

Working-class lives in children’s movies are often portrayed as so fun that rich people will voluntarily go down the class ladder to join them, the researchers say. Poor people are portrayed as happier, too.

Their analysis showed that in most cases the main character is wealthy and the majority of the cast are either upper or upper-middle class, meaning that poorer sectors are under-represented.

K-9 Carwash

This dog loves the car wash.