Two nine-year-old girls have been caught on video hurling bricks from a bridge at cars traveling on Britain's busiest motorway, police said Thursday.

Surrey police released the CCTV footage as part of a warning to parents following a sharp increase in such cases.

The girls were caught after a motorist rang the police to report his windshield had been smashed by a brick thrown from a motorway footbridge on the London orbital M25.

They were taken home but no prosecution is possible because they are deemed under the age of criminal responsibility.

This hits home to me because Bob was driving home one night last week and had his windshield shattered by something--it happened so fast, he isn't sure what it was, and he wasn't going under an overpass so I don't think it was anyone doing it on purpose--he's okay, but it could so easily have caused a terrible accident.

One can only hope that the children's parents take some disciplinary action. Hard to imagine what would go through the mind of a nine-year-old to cause them to do something like this. Is this the modern version of Pooh Sticks?

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As a pharmacy technician, Kramm knew young children hated swallowing medicine, but it had never seemed like an earth-shaking problem. Hadley made it one. Home from the hospital, his infant daughter balked at the four daily doses of phenobarbital she needed to prevent grand mal seizures that deprived her brain of oxygen. "She would clamp her mouth shut and you couldn't get it open," says Kramm. "If you did get it open, she'd hold the medicine in her mouth for half an hour until she'd start crying and it would come out all over her. That was worse because we didn't know how much she'd gotten, and we were afraid of giving her more in case she got too much." The Kramms erred on the side of undermedication, and as a result Hadley's seizures continued, sending her to the emergency room over and over again.

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Performed by students from the nearby agricultural university, the dance is perhaps the only militaristic drill in the world centred upon a vegetable.

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Annabelle Gurwitch, former host of the TBS program "Dinner & A Movie," hosts the program with her cat, Stinky. Broadcasting from their fictional living room, they narrate segments like "Squirrel Alert," where squirrels run up and down trees to fast-paced music.

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I did go to Wal-Mart, though. Liz Franklin, the office organizer lady, told me that it was the very best place to buy containers, even better than the Container Store. At the Container Store, they ask you for your address when you make a purchase.

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The Panawave Laboratory cult predicted that that a major disaster would devastate the Earth on Thursday. However, as doomsday approached, a senior member of the cult hinted that it would be "delayed" until around May 22.

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Marnie Holz, 18, had sought a temporary restraining order in the case, but Cook County Circuit Court Judge Julia Nowicki rejected the request. Two other suspended students also have filed suit.

Holz claimed the suspension would damage her academic standing, bar her from attending Saturday's prom, and possibly prevent her from graduating with her class.

Perhaps you should have thought of that before you beat up those younger girls and sent them to the hospital.

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"It will be caused when electromagnetic waves strike the Japanese archipelago and the delicate gravitational balance between the Andromeda nebula and other nebulas is altered."

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Those who knew her as a child almost universally describe the ailing 69-year-old cult leader as a weirdo.

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She scored a 1570 out of 1600 on the SAT and is deciding whether to attend Harvard, Stanford, Duke, Princeton or Cornell -- all of which have accepted her.

But despite her best-in-her-class grades, her school district wants to name her co-valedictorian with two other students.

Hornstine, the 18-year-old daughter of a state Superior Court judge, has asked a federal judge to intervene, saying that being forced to share with students with lesser grades would detract from what she has accomplished.

I think it's a shame that our first response when something doesn't go out way is to search for someone to sue.

She's not the first, of course.

In the last year alone, judges have been asked to consider similar cases in Ohio, Washington and Michigan. In two of the cases, students who wanted to be included as co-valedictorians were allowed by judges to be included. The third case, in Michigan, involves a student who wanted an A changed to an A+ so he would be more likely to be valedictorian.

Would it even have occurred to me when I was in high school to sue the school district because I wasn't named Valedictorian? I think I was the third in my class--maybe I could have sued somebody to increase a grade or something so that I could have been second, or even first.

Certainly it's good, I suppose, to question authority in some cases, but in cases like this, what does it really accomplish? Gets you publicity, I guess, if that's what you're looking for.

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