It’s always hard going back

Most students dread going to school, but few do anything beyond complaining.

One 10-year-old boy in Mexico City literally took the matter into his own hands when he used industrial glue to stick his hand to his bed. His mother found him this past Monday morning with his hand fastened to the bedpost, happily watching TV. After two hours of attempting to get him unstuck with nail polish remover, water and oil, she called the authorities.

The boy woke up early and snuck into the kitchen to get industrial strength glue which he used to paste his hand to the bed. His reasons? He told the Mexican newspaper Reforma, “I didn’t want to go to school because vacation was so much fun.”

Unfortunately for him, paramedics were able to unglue him just in time for class.

All in the family

A British pair of twins separated at birth married without knowing they were related. The union was annulled by the court once the couple realized the relation. According to BBC News, the couple told the judge presiding over the case that they “had met later in life and felt an inevitable attraction.”

The story has touched on issues of adoption transparency in the U.K. Adoption authorities are using the story as an example of the importance of adopted children knowing about their biological parents, reported the BBC.

“This sad case illustrates why, over the last 20-30 years, the shift to openness in adoption was so important,” said Mo O’Reilly, director of child placement for the British Association for Adoption and Fostering.

It was noted in the article that the situation has occurred between separated siblings before.

Missing dummy

Police in Lacey, Wash. are researching a kidnapping case involving one of their own: a dummy named Trevor.

Trevor is a uniformed mannequin that is usually found sitting in a patrol car on the side of major roads. His presence has found to influence motorists’ speeds.

This past Friday, the driver’s side window of Trevor’s patrol car was broken and the dummy was missing.

Police Communication Director John Suesselman noted in the Olympian that disabling an emergency vehicle is a felony.

[Reach columnist Erika Cederlind at news@thedaily.washington.edu.]