Is the world going batty?

Three stories that caught my eye this week.

Two of them involve beating the system and one is about a fella who takes matters into his own hands.

The latter is about a Georgia man that walked into a Walmart, grabbed a baseball bat from the sporting goods department, walked over to the electronics department and proceeded to smash 29 flat-screen TVs to oblivion. Twenty-nine for twenty-nine. One heck of a batting average. Who knows why he did it. He might have been upset because of his picture quality at home on his own set, or maybe he was just upset with the cable company. I wonder if he used a batting glove?

And how about the guy out in California? An 18-year-old walks into a restroom at a public school and pays for a couple of kids to provide him urine samples. Surveillance cameras caught him in the act and he was arrested. Obviously, he was trying to beat the system and get around an upcoming drug test.

And closer to home, we have a state representative, Frank Antenori, who would like to see a bill passed that would catch thousands of people, who are on food stamps and are out to beat the system.

Antenori has had it with a certain part of the population who walk into a store, plop down their benefits card to pay for their groceries and then reach into their pocket, bring out a $100 dollar bill and buy cigarettes and alcohol. He obviously is frustrated with the fraud in the system. According to Antenori, he would like to see to it that people on food stamps have only basic cable at home. In other words, if they can afford cigarettes, alcohol and extended cable then they shouldn't be on food stamps.

It's a crazy news week!