Weekly Daily Brickbats Archive 2007 November 22-31

Students at Wigan, England's Standish High School weren't happy with the school food, so they began calling out orders to a nearby sandwich shop. Owner Michael Daley would then deliver the food to the students though the school gates. But school officials found out what was going on and asked the police officer assigned as the school liaison officer to pay Daley a visit and tell him to stop. "We offer a wide variety of meals which the majority of children are satisfied with," said school head Hugh Crossan.

Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has banned pay raises along with increases in rents, prices and service charges. The government says this is an attempt to rein in inflation, which is running at around 8,000 percent. Anyone caught raising prices or salaries without government approval faces fines, up to six months in jail or both.

Colorado Springs' Discovery Canyon Campus elementary school has banned tag and any other form of chasing. Assistant Principal Cindy Fesgen says students were complaining about being chased.

Police in Tehran held down Saeed Ghanbari and gave him 80 lashes across his back while a large crowd watched. Ghanbari was reportedly being punished for drinking and having sex outside marriage.

Bogdan Mohora is $8,000 richer, thanks to the Seattle police. Mohora snapped some photographs of a man being arrested last year. That's when two Seattle police officers stopped him and demanded he give them his camera. When he asked what he had done wrong, they arrested him and took the camera along with his wallet and satchel. An hour later, they released him but warned him he could be charged with disturbing the peace, provoking a riot or endangering a police officer. But he was not charged, and when the ACLU took his case on, they found that the officers had not written an incident report on his arrest, in violation of department policy. The city settled the case for $8,000.