Sacramento police say they have arrested a man who threw a spear at a moving car.

Police say a witness called Tuesday night to report a man standing in the road throwing a spear at a passing vehicle, and officers arrested 56-year-old Jeffrey Allen Jones on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon.

It was not immediately clear what the spear was made of or where it came from.

The spear was found lodged in the vehicle’s fender. No word on the make or model of Jones’ victim.

Mugshot image via HLN TV.
Via Mercury News.

The couple planning to do this are entirely serious—and they won’t be the first to travel to Hawaii for a dolphin-assisted birth. My professional opinion: this has to be, hands down, one of the worst natural birthing ideas anyone has ever had.

Because of their friendly disposition and common occurance in aquariums, we tend to think of dolphins as trustworthy, loving creatures. But let’s get real for a minute here. Dolphins don’t eat sunshine and fart roses. They’re wild animals, and they are known to do some pretty terrible things.

And by terrible things, let’s go down the list of what sweet creatures dolphins are, and what they do to other dolphins (and people):

• Kidnapping
• Gang rape
• Attacking and killing baby dolphins for practice
• Drowning

Now, don’t get me wrong, I’m not dissing dolphins in any way here. On the contrary, the more I hear about what douchebags dolphins and our closer cousins, chimpanzees are, it just reaffirms the opinion that it really doesn’t matter what kind of animal you are, given the power and opportunity, being an asshat isn’t the sole province of humanity.

So what does the site that is promoting this say?

The Sirius Institute, where the couple is headed, claims that a natural dolphin-assisted birth is completely safe. “Some of the reported occurrences include a mother and a baby playing with the dolphins within 45 minutes of the birth,” claims the site, “another instance of a free dolphin escorting a newborn human baby to the surface for its first breath.”

When Penn and Teller talked to the institute, they found that none of the mothers which came to Sirius actually went through with the ocean birth.

Naturally.

Image via Discover News.
Via Discover.

The relatively small city of Zhongxiang in Hubei province has always performed suspiciously well in China’s tough “gaokao” exams, winning a disproportionate number of places at the country’s elite universities.

When students at the No.3 high school in Zhongxiang arrived to sit their exams this month, they were dismayed to find that they would be supervised by 54 randomly selected external invigilators.

By late afternoon, the invigilators were trapped as students pelted the windows with rocks. Outside, more than 2000 people had gathered, smashing cars and chanting: “We want fairness. There is no fairness if you do not let us cheat.”

Via The Telegraph.