Cythereal posted:

Just when you think American politics can't get any weirder...

https://mobile.twitter.com/Z_Everson/status/1057435121622638599

Samuringa posted:

Sir Lemming posted:

I guess in some remote way I can understand something getting lost in translation -- "I want you to make this special for them because this is an annual tradition, they lost their son years back but they want it to be a joyful occasion rather than mourning..." And... ... ... Yeah I'm still not really sure.

Chuck Buried Treasure posted:

That’s the 7th pit of the 8th circle of Hell.

ultrafilter posted:

Kids YouTube Star Blippi “Regrets” The Viral Video In Which He Poops All Over His Friend

Platystemon posted:

So there’s a factory there making fetish wear and some of the product found its way onto the streets, am I right?

chitoryu12 posted:

Florida mayor arrested for practicing medicine without a license, shooting at police

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PORT RICHEY, Fla. — The mayor of Port Richey was arrested after law enforcement officers say he shot at Pasco County deputies.

The Pasco Sheriff's Office said around 4:40 a.m. Thursday, SWAT team members were attempting to serve a search warrant at a home on Hayward Lane in Port Richey.

The sheriff's office and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement said Mayor Dale Massad fired two shots at the entry team who he claims he thought was the Port Richey Police Department. Deputies did not shoot back.

AKA Pseudonym posted:

https://twitter.com/kron4news/status/1115686982653366272?s=20

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The hospital's head of ophthalmology, Dr Hung Chi-ting said at a press conference that such bees nest near graves and in fallen trees, so chances of coming across them while hiking in the mountains are high, according to Apple Daily Taiwan.

Azathoth posted:

If you go to see Slipknot, you deserve everything you get.

Sir Lemming posted:

More like Splitnut

(and definitely not more like oldpainless)

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The man who drew the ire of animal lovers after he was accused of causing the death of Pinky, a beloved Chilean flamingo at a Florida them park, has died.
Joseph Anthony Corrao, 48, was struck by a pickup as he crossed a road in Orlando, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. Corrao was taken to a hospital, where he died June 5.

Henchman of Santa posted:

Serial toilet clogger sentenced to 150 days in jail, 3 years of probation

https://www.sheboyganpress.com/story/news/2019/07/01/sheboygan-toilet-clogger-sentenced-probation-150-days-jail/1569553001

zoux posted:

https://twitter.com/mekosoff/status/1153779382147850240?s=21

Cartoon Man posted:

Weird News Headlines: A cooler filled with penises

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A 37-year-old man whose legal name is Sexy Vegan pleaded not guilty Friday to two misdemeanor charges stemming from allegations that he sexually assaulted his dog and posted a video of the assault on social media.
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Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies arrested Vegan on Thursday morning after authorities said he posted a video on one of his social media accounts Sept. 5 depicting "inappropriate behavior" with a pit bull, prosecutors said.
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Vegan's IMDB profile says he moved to West Hollywood from a Chicago suburb in 2016 and legally changed his name to Sexy Vegan. He has his name tattooed on his forehead and chest in blue ink. The profile also describes him as a 2020 presidential candidate, an "Instagram sensation" and a singer who released a 28-track album on YouTube called "Ending World Suffering the Fun Way."

During an appearance on the "Dr. Phil" show in 2017, security guards escorted Vegan from the studio after he engaged in an expletive-filled rant and attempted to moonwalk across the stage. He appeared on the show a few months later to apologize.

Cartoon Man posted:

M_Sinistrari posted:

I'm wondering if that's the same vegan guy who'd get posted here in the Internet Weirdos and AUG threads. He had one creepy video where he went on about 'vegan ladies lovely labias' and demonstrated how he would go down on them.

jojoinnit posted:

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PG&E’s lawyers have requested proof — understandably, a whole lot of proof — after a married couple claimed the 2018 Camp Fire destroyed a massive $280 million emerald they’d been keeping in their Paradise home.

The so-called “Beleza Emerald” is described in court documents as a 500-pound “solid block of black schist and quartz with green crystals.” PG&E’s attorneys write that the alleged owners, in an insurance claim filed July 15 to Pacific Gas and Electric Co., say the state’s deadliest and most destructive wildfire in recorded history damaged or destroyed their precious gem as it sat in their home on Edgewood Lane in Paradise.

That item was among several termed “suspicious” by lawyers for PG&E and its debtors in a court filing last Friday, an effort to lower the estimate on its financial liability for the disaster. The beleaguered utility declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy earlier this year and remains entrenched in legal battles as it processes tens of thousands of insurance claims related to the devastating November 2018 Camp Fire, which killed 85 people and for which PG&E has been found liable.

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In a letter to U.S. District Judge James Donato of the Northern District of California, attorneys for PG&E and its debtors allege that seven individual claimants have “collectively asserted over $350 million in damages,” coming from “duplicative and/or exceptionally large monetary claims, which appear suspicious.” The Beleza Emerald would make up about 80 percent of that figure.

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The $280 million emerald would be remarkable, if it in fact existed. A list of top emeralds sold by Christie’s auction house maxes out at around $6 million. A nearly 800-pound emerald found in Brazil in 2017 was valued at about $309 million, according to a Forbes report. As comparison, the famed Hope diamond is valued between $250 million and $350 million.

It was unclear exactly how the couple claimed the emerald was destroyed. While the Camp fire burned hot enough to melt aluminum — which has a melting point of 1,221 degrees Fahrenheit — emeralds start to degrade at temperatures around 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit

A Google search found no record of a “Beleza Emerald.”

According to Realtor.com, the house in question was an 8-bedroom, 4,400-square-foot home in Paradise with an estimated value of $586,000 — raising further doubts that it contained a gem worth more than 477 times the price of the house.

Oscar Wild posted:

https://twitter.com/DailyMirror/status/1198501503700324352?s=19

Pastry of the Year posted:

I have to double-dip from this thing because






gay people have caused California to be overrun with small brown ants

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An alleged burglar who identified himself as Jesus and smashed up a Placerville sporting goods store with a hatchet was arrested this week, police said.

Officers responded around 2:40 a.m. Tuesday to an alarm triggering at the Big 5 Sporting Goods store on Placerville Drive. The alarm company “reported multiple glass breaks and a male subject on the phone inside the store claiming to be Jesus Christ,” the Placerville Police Department said Thursday in a news release.

Police arrived at the scene to find a hooded man outside the front of the business, where a white Subaru had been used to ram the front door and gain entry, according to the news release. The suspect then retreated inside the Subaru and closed the door, but officers quickly got him out and took him into custody.

The man, identified by police as Blake Thacker, 32, of Georgetown, was arrested and booked into the El Dorado County jail for commercial burglary.

Store surveillance video showed Thacker driving his Subaru through the doors, gaining entry and using a hatchet to smash glass display counters, according to the Police Department.

“Thacker ransacked the store in what appeared to be random acts of vandalism,” the news release said.

Police say the burglary appeared to be related to an earlier incident handled by the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office on Monday evening, in which a man associated with the Subaru had been “banging on the doors at Walmart on Missouri Flat Road,” reportedly “demanding a firearm to kill someone.”

Thacker remains in custody at the jail for the burglary charge, with bail set at $10,000.

Anyone with information regarding the case is asked to contact the Placerville Police Department at 530-642-5210.

Beachcomber posted:

Guy who picks the Papa Smurf hat has cojones.

Platystemon posted:

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1246916796583751687

Facebook Aunt posted:

How is that even possible?

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Panda gestation length ranges from 90 to 180 days, with an average pregnancy lasting 135 days. This wide variation in gestation occurs because the fertilized egg usually floats freely in the mother's uterus before it implants and begins developing.

The Lone Badger posted:

Extremely difficult. Those little bastards cling.

Zil posted:

So do you think one would need to learn Japanese or is just grunting fine?

just kidding for the love of god don't show this to my wife