oddly enough

oddly enough

Denver-area school won’t let child eat cookies in lunchbox

AURORA, Colo.

A suburban Denver 4-year-old came home from school disappointed, with untouched Oreos and a note from her teacher.

Denver news station KMGH-TV reports that preschooler Natalee Pearson told her mom Friday that she wasn’t allowed to eat the cookies in her lunchbox.

The note told parents to pack a nutritious lunch that includes a fruit, vegetable and healthful snack.

Natalee’s mother, Leeza Pearson, says she doesn’t agree with the decision by the Children’s Academy in Aurora.

She says Natalie also had a sandwich and cheese and that the school took things too far.

A spokeswoman with Aurora Public Schools says they gave Natalee a healthful alternative to the cookies.

Pearson says Natalee attends the private Children’s Academy as a public-school student under the state’s preschool-option program.

School tour of South Dakota bank inadvertently trips alarm

MITCHELL, S.D.

Police officers who responded to what they thought was a robbery of a South Dakota bank found a school tour instead.

Sgt. Dave Beintema told The Daily Republic newspaper that students were being given a tour of the First Dakota National Bank in Mitchell on Tuesday when one of them apparently inadvertently pushed the bank’s panic alarm.

Beintema says the group of students found the whole incident amusing.

Mitchell is 70 miles west of Sioux Falls.

Bad vibrations: Buzzing inside mailbox shutters town square

BELLEFONTE, Pa.

Police were picking up some bad vibrations from a buzzing mailbox in a Pennsylvania town, enough to prompt them to shut down the town square for a couple of hours.

Bellefonte police Chief Shawn Weaver says the “vibrating noise, like an alarm going off” was reported at about 10 a.m. Tuesday. Because police couldn’t be sure what was causing it, Penn State bomb experts and state police were called in, and a section of downtown was cordoned off until about 12:30 p.m.

It turns out someone had dropped a medical-alert pager into the mailbox.

Police don’t yet know whether the device was dropped accidentally or put there by a prankster.

Associated Press