Fade to Black
About two years ago, I posted about a story of a Missouri town that was trying to combat the goth menace. Today, it looks like (despite federal funding) they either couldn't find any goths, or figured out that they weren't a menace.
In the same spirit, the Kansas City suburb of Blue Springs, Mo., recently returned $132,000 to the federal government, nearly half of a $273,000 grant it received two years ago to study the problem of "Goth culture" among the city's youth. Apparently the grant worked: Blue Springs officials said that, technically, they never managed to find any Goth problems to study.
The city did spend nearly $75,000 on salary and benefits for a project coordinator and an assistant (you need an assistant when you look for Goths) and held 17 sessions for people who work with kids to tell them how to deal with a problem that, alas, they didn't have.
For some reason, that old post still gets an occasional comment.
