POOR GUN CONTROLDavid W. Walls, 57, was trying to control bees in Frankstown Township, Penn., with a .22 revolver loaded with buck shot, state police said. It’s unclear whether he killed any of the bees, but he managed to shoot himself in the hand. Police say he had been drinking. Meanwhile, Jorge Espinal, 44, was drinking beer and playing poker in his Ft. Worth, Texas, home when he had an itch on his back.Espinal “grabbed the first thing he could get a hold of,” a police spokesman said, “which was a revolver.” Sure enough, he shot himself in the back. His poker partners called for an ambulance, and police said Espinal’s injuries were not life-threatening. (Altoona Mirror, Dallas Morning News) …The humiliation level, however, may be.FLUNKEDAfter Alex Barton, a kindergartner at Morningside Elementary School in Port St. Lucie, Fla., acted up in class, the teacher called the 5-year-old boy in front of his peers and asked the kids to tell him what they thought of his behavior. When they were done, teacher Wendy Portillo had the kids vote on whether the boy should be kicked out of class.He lost: 14 to 2. “I feel sad,” Barton told his teacher. Less than a week after Barton was kicked out, tests for autism came back positive: His teacher knew he was being tested. The Barton family has hired a lawyer to sue the school, and the state’s attorney general’s office is investigating. (Port St. Lucie News) …Aren’t teachers supposed to stop bullies, not model bullying so kids can learn how?
