quotes from across the pond

On what happens when stores stop supplying plastic grocery bags, besides that they don't end up hanging off cacti:

[A] scheme in Ireland had reduced plastic bag usage, but sales of bin liners had increased 400 per cent.

On two fourteen-year-old boys who took Viagra at school:

The boys have claimed not to have taken any of them but there has been good reason to believe that was not the case.