Weird News Compilation

[Keith_McClary]

Tom.schulz

 

[mfb]

Caution: 'Large boulder the size of a large boulder' blocks Colorado road
The article has more backstory, but here is the short summary:
A sheriff wanted to write "Large boulder the size of a small car is completely blocking [road]" a year ago, but accidentally tweeted "Large boulder the size of a small boulder is completely blocking [road]". That tweet went viral. A year later a much larger boulder blocked a road, so they wrote the announcement cited above.

 

[epenguin]

Is this the famous Boulder, Colorado?

 

[Keith_McClary]

Boulder, Colorado?

A boulder the size of Boulder?

ESA / anosmicovni
(That city is not Boulder.)

 

[BillTre]

A boulder the size of Boulder?

ESA / anosmicovni
(That city is not Boulder.)

Nice picture.
Approximate dimensions in km or miles?

 

[Keith_McClary]

https://www.planetary.org/space-images/comet-67p-compared-to-los-angeles

Approximate dimensions in km

Artist's rendering of the 4-kilometer wide Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko compared to the city of Los Angeles.

Here it is in Boulder:

 

[BillTre]

Wow, not so big.
The Chicxulub impactor (dinosaur extinctor) was estimated between 11-80 km and going about 20 km/sec.
Lot of energy to dissipate quickly.
No wonder it made a such a mess.

 

[Astronuc]

Weird, but not necessarily so for Queensland, Australia.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/authorities-found-human-remains-inside-a-13-foot-crocodile-while-searching-for-a-missing-fisherman/ar-BB1dHqBE?li=BBnb7Kz

 

[berkeman]

Krispy Kreme is offering a limited-edition Mars doughnut to celebrate NASA's rover landing

https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/16/world/krispy-kreme-mars-doughnut-scn-trnd/index.html

 

[Borg]

Nearest Krispy Kreme is 20 miles from me and there's a snowstorm predicted for that day. Hmm, how badly do I want a free doughnut...

 

[fresh_42]

Nearest Krispy Kreme is 20 miles from me ...

... and don't ask me!

 

[mfb]

... and don't ask me!

You didn't plan a trip to the UK?

~30 countries, but nowhere in the EU.

 

[fresh_42]

You didn't plan a trip to the UK?

Makes no sense. Doughnuts are daily standard here, and especially these days. However we don't make them with a hole and put in jelly instead of it. But as far as I could see, the Mars doughnut doesn't have one either.

 

[DrGreg]

However we don't make them with a hole and put in jelly instead of it.

A Bob Marley doughnut

Spoiler: I don't get it

Wi^(th) jam in

 

[berkeman]

But as far as I could see, the Mars doughnut doesn't have one either.

Yeah, a free doughnut with a hole will have to wait until we send a probe to the Ring Nebula...

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/ring-nebula-full_jpg.jpg

 

[Astronuc]

Another funny add-on: As I once discussed the Texan secession with a friend of mine who has been raised in NM, she mentioned that there is a movement, that in such a case, Austin would plan a secession from TX.

Like Scotland and Brexit then?

There's been talk of a Texit for some time now, perhaps at least 4 decades, and probably longer. It might be advantageous to some, but disadvantageous for the majority. I don't see it happening.

And speaking of Texas - A High-Stakes Divorce Illustrates How the Rich Play Real-Estate Tug of War
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-high...-rich-play-real-estate-tug-of-war-11586458598

A Houston billionaire is accused of using a complex web of trusts and limited liability companies to prevent his wife from accessing cash and the 13 homes they acquired together.
. . .
By the time the home’s décor was complete, Mrs. Bosarge said, her husband had left her for his 20-something Russian mistress. “He moved her in instead of me,” Mrs. Bosarge recalled.

 

[nsaspook]

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/02/16/business/citibank-revlon-lawsuit-ruling/index.html

Citibank can't get back $500 million it wired by mistake, judge rules

 

[nsaspook]

There's been talk of a Texit for some time now, perhaps at least 4 decades, and probably longer. It might be advantageous to some, but disadvantageous for the majority. I don't see it happening.

And speaking of Texas - A High-Stakes Divorce Illustrates How the Rich Play Real-Estate Tug of War
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-high...-rich-play-real-estate-tug-of-war-11586458598

'20-something Russian mistress'

This ends badly.

 

[mfb]

Citibank can't get back $500 million it wired by mistake

... to people they owed money to. They didn't lose the money, they just repaid loans much earlier than planned.

 

[Rive]

Just where should I put this

Male balding is a major risk factor for severe COVID-19

Recent observations by Wambier et al1 suggest that men with pattern baldness are at high risk for severe symptomatic COVID-19 infection.

 

[berkeman]

OMG, dat's ooogly!

https://abc7news.com/neither-snow-nor-rain-nor-heat-usps-unveils-rugged-new-mail-trucks-/10370067/

 

[Borg]

Russian diplomats and their families leave North Korea by hand-pushed rail trolley due to Covid-19 restrictions

 

[Keith_McClary]

Watch with sound on:


This will probably be the kids' best memory of NK.
Diplomats have a very broad job description.

 

[mfb]

These things are not too bad on a perfectly level terrain (rolling resistance is low), but as soon as there is the tiniest bit of upwards slope...

 

[berkeman]

And just when you thought you'd seen it all, along comes this...

Kroger clinic patients given empty COVID-19 vaccine shots

https://www.kron4.com/health/coronavirus/kroger-clinic-patients-given-empty-covid-19-vaccine-shots/

CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — A Kroger location in Virginia administered shots with empty syringes to multiple patients scheduled for a COVID-19 vaccine.

A Kroger spokesperson told Nexstar’s WRIC that workers at one of their Little Clinic locations made the mistake of administering the shots. They said the health care professional giving the shots was under the impression that a colleague had filled the syringes prior to the appointments.

Vruce said the empty shots seemed “a little reckless” and wonders how someone did not notice the syringes were not full of vaccine.

How in the world can you not notice that the syringe is empty before you insert the needle? How in the world could you keep doing it several shots in a row?

 

[fresh_42]

How in the world can you not notice that the syringe is empty before you insert the needle? How in the world could you keep doing it several shots in a row?

And ... did they actually injected air? If you don't get thromboses from Covid-19, you get them from vaccination, or what?

 

[berkeman]

Syringes come with the plunger all the way down (no air in the body of the syringe), and the only time you draw the plunger back is to draw up the medication to the correct volume mark. So hopefully they did not inject air (although an IM injection of air should probably not cause a thrombosis, I would think).

 

[Astronuc]

https://autos.yahoo.com/trailer-safety-chain-stops-couples-230500361.html

As he [trucker Rod Drury] approached the wreck, he realized that over the edge of the bridge, still attached to the camper only by the trailer safety chain, was a Ford F-350 pickup, dangling nose down over the gorge.

Inside was the 67-year-old driver and his 64-year-old wife, from Garden City, Idaho, along with their two small dogs.

 

[Astronuc]

Czech billionaire Kellner killed in Alaska helicopter crash
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/czech-billionaire-kellner-killed-alaska-061950383.html

PRAGUE (Reuters) - Petr Kellner, the Czech Republic's richest man and founder of investment group PPF, was one of five people killed when their helicopter crashed on a skiing trip in Alaska.

Kellner, 56, was among the passengers and pilot killed on Saturday in the crash near Knik Glacier northeast of Anchorage, Alaska State Troopers said.

Kellner avoided public attention but was known to be a keen skier. A picture of him snowboarding was published in one PPF annual report.

There was one survivor, who was taken to hospital.

 

[Wrichik Basu]

Three women, who went to get vaccinated against COVID-19, were administered Rabies vaccine instead.

https://www.thehindu.com/news/natio...ead-of-covid-19-jab-in-up/article34280202.ece

 

[jack action]

Following my previous post about finding Coronavirus in Asterix, In 1997, an issue of Betty was depicting a scene for remote schooling in 2021:

If only they could have imagined why it became popular!

 

[berkeman]

Not exactly Weird News, but what is wrong with this picture?

https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/coronavirus-in-the-bay-area-vaccine-distribution-by-county/

 

[Astronuc]

Man fleeing police crashes, wedges Maserati under freeway
https://news.yahoo.com/man-fleeing-police-crashes-wedges-213137411.html

I think someone will be looking for a new boyfriend.

 

[berkeman]

Man fleeing police crashes, wedges Maserati under freeway
https://news.yahoo.com/man-fleeing-police-crashes-wedges-213137411.html

How in the world...?!

 

[Tom.G]

Not exactly Weird News, but what is wrong with this picture?

View attachment 281488
https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/coronavirus-in-the-bay-area-vaccine-distribution-by-county/

Looks like the syringe is being tapped to dislodge air bubbles.
In my (limited) understanding this is done after needle removal from the vial.

The photo seems to show this being done with the needle still in the unsupported vial... that's a NO NO. The needle may bend, making it useless, and if the syringe plunger is pushed the vial is now contaminated and must be discarded.

I hope the individual in the photo is an actor, not a medic!
Anyone care to track her down and get her license pulled?