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Today in the Apocalypse: A 14-Year-Old Girl Did... What?!

Brian Fairbanks — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:19:00 GMT

This story is so disturbing, it has us worried about the next two generations...

A 14-year-old New Zealand girl was arrested earlier this week for driving drunk-- and that's just the beginning of the story. When her breathalyzer tests were released by police, it turned out she had a blood-alcohol level more than six times the legal limit. And there's more:

Acting Sergeant Kevin Crawford told the Northern Advocate the girl, who was four months pregnant, was stopped after her driving caught police attention.

She allegedly gave a false name and had difficulty spelling it.

She was forbidden to drive and taken to Whangarei police station, where she recorded a breath-alcohol level of 828mcg. The legal limit for drivers under 20 is 150mcg and driving licences are not issued to people under 15.

The girl would be referred to Youth Aid, Mr Crawford said. [Stuff.co.nz]

So, to recap: this wasn't some random checkpoint bust or a case of the cops pulling someone over for a broken tailight and then discovering the problem-- she was driving erratically, putting more than just two lives in danger. She tried to get out of it by using a fake name, which she couldn't even spell. And she didn't even have a driver's license to begin with-- who the hell gave her their car keys?!

Frightening.

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Our Favorite Leftover Photos of 2008

Brian Fairbanks — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:41:00 GMT

While hunting stories on the internet, we often stumble across a photograph that doesn't work as a story in itself. Case in point, this shot of a naked man fleeing the police in Japan, which we included in an utterly irrelevant post about the vicar with the potato stuck in his butthole.

Then there are photos which never get used for any story, yet we can't bear to delete them, so they sit all yearlong in the Nerve Photos folder on our desktop. Because, even this late in the game, we can't bear to dispose of them in the proper computer trash bin, here they are for your insatiable amusement:

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This is the Part Where Parents in the State of Washington Thank Jamie Lynn Spears for Getting Knocked-Up at 16

Emily Farris — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 16:07:00 GMT

From seattlepi.com: OLYMPIA -- The Bush administration is cutting off funding for abstinence-only sex education in Washington because this state now requires schools to provide additional, medically accurate information about preventing unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.

Sloppy Seconds: Special Pregnancy Edition

Emily Farris — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:12:00 GMT

We were trying really hard to not think too much about Jamie Lynn Spears' pregnancy. Really hard. But we can't get away from it. It's everywhere. Kind of like global warming: we can't really see it yet but everyone is talking about it and we know it's out there and that it's real and that someday it will affect us. Someday we will be filling the pages of Scanner with tales of Jamie Lynn and her baby and her baby daddy like we once did (and will probably continue to do) with Britney. But does the world really need or deserve this right now? No. Either way, it's happening, and there's nothing we can do to stop it. In fact, we're pretty sure that everything stopped happening everywhere so there would be no news to interfere with this the most breaking and important of all news, except you know, all the other pregnancies. So, we have to sit back and take it all in. Thus we bring you a special Pregnancy Edition of Sloppy Seconds:

Britney didn't know about Jamie Lynn's pregnancy until the rest of us did. (When we get knocked up, our sister will be the first person we tell, after our baby daddy).

Poor Lynne Spears. Her parenting book (say what?) is on hold "indefinitely."

Nickelodeon respects Lil Spears' decision to follow in her sister's footsteps.

Britney went shopping after she found out about Jamie Lynn's pregnancy. And no one noticed her new dark hair.

Lilly Allen! Everyone is so caught up with Jamie Lynn's pregnancy that they all forgot about yours. Well, we didn't Lilly!

Jennifer Love Hewitt is NOT pregnant.

Previously: John Edwards' Love Child: Never Meant to Be

Get Knocked Up, Get Paid

Emily Farris — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:40:00 GMT

We grew up in a kind-of po-dunk place. Once, in the tenth grade, when the office lady called the names of nine girls to the health room, it took us a few minutes to realize that those were all the pregnant girls in our class. It happens, especially in small towns; girls get knocked up in high school. But none of them, as far as we know, did it on purpose, and we have enough faith in our former guidance counselors to know that they probably didn't recommend it. Even in college, when we needed more loans to cover tuition and went into the financial aid office to cry every semester, no one suggested we get pregnant to get more money from the state. Maybe that's because Bush's abstinence-only funding plan is paying off? Because across the pond, an orphaned teenage girl in West Yorkshire was told by her benefits advisor that the only way she'd get more money from the state was to get knocked up.

While this was run as one of those kind of "feel good, help this poor girl" stories, in the UK's Metro, it kind of pisses us off. But if it would make her boyfriend stay with her forever and ever against his will, that's a whole other story...