Isn’t it Friday yet, Washington? Alas, we’ve still got to muddle through two hot, muggy days before what’s looking to be another gorgeous weekend finally begins. With weather like this, you might be tempted to don footwear most people would deem inappropriate for work, like say, flip-flops. Other people might then be tempted to make fun of you for your choice of shoes, and they wouldn’t be wrong — flip-flops are, as we all know, meant for the beach or perhaps for slipping on to go to the mailbox, and not, we repeat not, for the workplace. But now, the maligned flip-flop wearing legions can have their revenge: a woman in York County, Va. claims her rubber flip-flops saved her life when lightning struck her home late last month. Don’t choose to wear flip-flops everywhere you go? Fine, but you’re choosing to risk death!
ANSWER Refuses to Take Down Signs: The Post picks up the story of the city’s War on Signs with the anti-war group ANSWER, who are now refusing to cooperate with an order to take down dozens of signs plastered around the city advertising an upcoming march and pay fines for gluing them on to utility boxes. “We don’t consider these fines to have any legal basis,” said Sarah Sloan, ANSWER’s national staff coordinator. “So there is no need to remove the signs or pay the fines.”
Residents Demand More Police Protection: Residents in the LeDroit Park and Shaw neighborhoods are speaking out about the rash of recent muggings along parts of Rhode Island Ave. NW, and asking police to increase patrols in that area. WJLA picked up the story of the muggings that has been circulating on local blogs like Fifth and Oh.
Briefly Noted: Three murders overnight in Southeast … Fourteen year-old Wheaton girl missing … Three corrections officers involved in gender mix-up to be fired … More Maryland schools meeting No Child Left Behind standards.
This Day in DCist: Last year we welcomed the first of the city’s crime surveillance cameras, and the year before that we wondered if D.C. could be the next city to ban trans fats.
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