Hot off the Press: May Day edition

A couple Des Moines area teens were arrested last month after they broke into a 4,000-square-foot home in West Des Moines and used it as a spring break party pad while the homeowners were on vacation: http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20120404/NEWS/304040048/Underage-drinking-party-tab-comes-to-10-000-police-say.

Children participating in an Easter egg hunt in Germany stumbled onto a surprise: a live bazooka from World War II: http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,826595,00.html.

Transportation officials in Germany are calling for an alcohol ban on public transit: http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,829788,00.html. I really need to visit Germany before this happens. "So what'd you do in Geramny?" "I drank on the U-Bahn."

Vogue has scrubbed its website of a glamorous profile of Syrian first lady Asma al-Assad, first printed in March 2011 as her husband began a ruthless slaughter of his own people: http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/vogue-profile-on-assads-wife-disappears/2012/04/25/gIQAgMWthT_story.html?hpid=z4.

"A Dutch court on Friday upheld a new law that will prevent foreigners from buying marijuana in coffee shops across the Netherlands, potentially ending decades of 'pot tourism' for which this city and others became universally known": http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/dutch-court-upholds-ban-on-foreigners-buying-pot/2012/04/27/gIQA95pwkT_story.html?hpid=z2. I guess all there is to do in the Netherlands is enjoy its top-notch cycling infrastructure.

"Thinking can undermine religious faith, study finds": http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-religion-analytical-thinking-20120427,0,5374010.story. Duh!

A woman given a 10-year prison sentence for stealing over $537,000 while she worked for the Black Hawk County Clerk of Courts has been paroled after 70 days: http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20120430/NEWS/304300026/Iowa-woman-serves-only-70-days-of-10-year-jail-sentence-for-537K-theft.