Roller Judge

Did you know that Clark County District Court Judge Valorie Vega put herself through law school by skating on a professional roller derby team? Yeah, neither did we. From the LV Sun:

She started playing while attending law school in 1980.

“It was good money. It was real good money,” Vega says. “It helped pay for a lot of those big, fat law books I had to buy.”

And the night-and-weekend schedule didn’t interfere with her classes at USC, although there was that time she took a toss over the rails that broke her arm and dislocated her shoulder during final exams. She took one while loaded on rhino-grade painkillers. When she left the classroom, she had to ask a friend if she had handed in her blue exam book.

So many questions. Perhaps the most important being: What the hell are "rhino-grade painkillers?"

(LV Sun)