$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')t would have seemed ridiculous a decade ago, but in today’s terror prone world it’s become business as usual. The latest threat?
Candy Canes.
If reports are to be believed, administrators at Battlefield High School in Haymarket, VA punished ten members of the school’s Christmas Sweater Club for participating in the spreading of Christmas cheer, part of which included the tossing of small, individually wrapped candy canes to students.
According to accounts by several students, the school punished them with detention and cleanup work because the popular holiday treats pose a possible threat to others due to the ease of weaponizing the candy canes.
Skylar Torbett, a junior, says he was told, “candy canes are weapons because you can sharpen them with your mouth and stab people with them.” Zakk Rhine, another member of the club, was told that the candy canes could, “maliciously maim students with the intent to injure.”
and our dollar is at US parity - last time I looked.
However, as you say, fuel is by our references cheap in the US. I was paying, if my memory serves me correctly, $3.20 - 30 at either Boulia or Hamilton Crossing in 1972 and nearly $4.00 at Kings Canyon and it was not much cheaper at the "Rock", but like Arnhem land they are a fair way off the beaten track when one is talking about reasonably large provincial cities like Hervey Bay or Maryborough for instance. I guess there are places in the US where they pay prices comparable to what we pay, but they are probably in remote areas. 
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