Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe THINGS WE DON'T UNDERSTAND The New York Post is running an exclusive story saying state investigators in New York have found the principal of a Brooklyn high school allegedly corrected student tests -- resulting in 14 students who actually flunked getting passing grades. Advertisement Pacific High Principal Helen Lehrer allegedly changed social studies tests by erasing mistakes and circling the correct answers. She has denied any wrongdoing. Principals can get $15,000 bonuses if test scores go up, the Post reports, and at Pacific, the grades of 14 students went from Fail to Pass. A teacher became suspicious when she saw the returned tests had green erasures even though the students had taken the test using pencils with red erasers. The 22 tests in question had 119 erasure marks -- with 92 changing a wrong answer to a correct one. NEWS OF OTHER LIFE FORMS An exploding chicken has passed muster with the British Board of Film Classification, clearing the way for the release of the movie "The Dancer Upstairs" next month, the British Broadcasting Corp. reports. Actor John Malkovich's directorial debut upset many people because of a scene where a chicken is seen with dynamite strapped to its leg. Advertisement Malkovich complained bitterly to the BBFC, the BBC says, but the film's production company was prepared to ax the scene. The BBFC decided to pass the movie after receiving assurances the dynamite wasn't real and the chicken, a pet, had been returned happy and safe to its owner. It is illegal to show a film in which animals actually are harmed. TODAY'S SIGN THE WORLD IS ENDING Mental health workers who visited 43-year-old Pat Harris at her home near London, to see if she was OK, couldn't get the woman to engage in a conversation with them so they left, never realizing the woman was dead, the Sun reports online. The workers hadn't seen Harris, who suffered from schizophrenia, for five days but told their bosses when they arrived at the home Harris was sitting in her kitchen with her back to them, the Sun says. They say they got the impression Harris "did not want us there" when she didn't respond to their questions and so, when the phone rang, they left. The local coroner, David Sarginson said it was extraordinary the mental health workers did not realize the woman had died. AND FINALLY, TODAY'S UPLIFTING STORY Advertisement Shoppers don't consider a showerhead to be a high-tech, but the Revolution showerhead from Moen is no ordinary showerhead. It spins each water droplet while simultaneously twisting the whole shower stream. The result is spinning, twisting, spiraling water -- leaving users feeling enveloped in the water stream, according to Moen. Larger drops of water make the shower feel warmer and the increased speed of the water drops results in a perception of higher flow, higher pressure and the sensation of a massaging shower.
