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In summary, a man who used to be a Fox News guest analyst and claimed to be a CIA agent was sentenced to 33 months in prison for lying about his security clearance, criminal history, and finances.
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https://hasanjasim.online/after-arm...-thicket-was-discovered-to-be-a-shopping-bag/

After Armed Cops Were Dispatched To Assist, The ‘Lion Hidden in a Thicket’ Was Discovered to be a Shopping Bag!​

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jack action said:
You can use an endless pool:

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Surely Shanghai has public pools that could be used for the test.
 
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Not weird, but extremely cool! Live long and prosper, Ruth!

103-year-old skydiver Ruth Larsson sets new Guinness World Record​

Updated: 30/05/2022
A judge from the Guinness Book of Records was present when Ruth Larsson became the oldest person in the history of the world to skydive on Sunday 29 May.
When Ruth Larsson was 90 years old, she wanted to learn more about flying and started trying things like paragliding, gliding and hot air ballooning.
In 2019, she made her first parachute jump at the age of 101. But there was no world record because a few months earlier, American Kathryn Hodges jumped, at 103 years and 129 days.

Today, Ruth Larsson has passed that age, and at 2 p.m. on Sunday she was ready to take the world record, at the same spot where she jumped three years ago, just outside Motala.
The first Swede to make a parachute jump was Axel Raoul Thörnblad in 1920, when Ruth Larsson was two years old.

https://www.euronews.com/2022/05/30...r-ruth-larsson-sets-new-guinness-world-record
 
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Hornbein said:
I know that the us prez sheets are guarded so the bad guys can't get his DNA.
How would there be enough DNA on his sheets? Oh, wait,... :oldruck:
 
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strangerep said:
Does this qualify as "weird news"?

https://www.parismatch.com/Actu/International/Poutine-malade-rumeur-ou-tumeur-1810897

Putin's bodyguards always collect his poo when he travels abroad -- to prevent other states from gaining information about his health from analysis of his droppings.
He's still potty training? That would explain a lot concerning his mental development - that of a one or two year old.
 
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fresh_42 said:
https://www.sciencealert.com/china-...spicious-signals-in-its-search-for-alien-life

I find this a bit ironic...
Astronomers at Beijing Normal University...
 
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Somewhere, a few billion years ago, a level 4 Kardashian (wait... that doesn't sound right) radio-interactive species parent is/was giving their teenager sh*t for blaring the music too loud.
 
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berkeman said:
I find this a bit ironic... [Beijing Normal University]
Careful! Glass houses and all that.

See this.
 
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fresh_42 said:

Astronomers in China Claim Possible Detection of 'Extraterrestrial Civilizations'​


https://www.sciencealert.com/china-...spicious-signals-in-its-search-for-alien-life

That's crackpottery on a completely new level!
Science alert has been named as a Predatory site. Give them your money and they will publish it. I still use it for main stuff, just bearing that in mind.

Talking of nuts...NASAs next big project? UFO study. Yes, that's what i thought.

The video below is great, I ended up watching all 27 minutes but it is time stamped.

A great section on memory, culture and also the length and cost of the project.
 
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Hornbein said:
https://restofworld.org/2022/axie-infinity-hack/

The Axie Infinity Hack. This is so 21st century I can't quite follow the story. Weirder than science fiction.

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On March 23, the hackers had made off with $620 million worth of cryptocurrency – the biggest heist in crypto history. Sky Mavis hadn’t noticed the money missing until six days after it was taken.

Sounds pretty fishy to me. :))
 
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And in one of the weirder cases of arson...

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https://www.firehouse.com/community...rsonist-hits-wyoming-county-ny-fd-burn-houses

Jun. 22—Two houses in Wyoming County that volunteer firefighters use for training were scheduled to be burned down after the exercises were complete.

Authorities say an arsonist beat them to it. And they are eager to learn who that is.

Those two fires in the town of Orangeville and Wethersfield and a third at a silo in Orangeville are all being investigated as arsons.

"There's nothing solid yet, but we're turning over every stone," said Bill Streicher, fire coordinator for the Wyoming County Office of Emergency Services. "We're looking into every angle and possible scenario."

The fires were all reported in the 11 p.m. hour on successive Saturdays in June.
 
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/amid-attacks-thefts-retail-workers-174956439.html
There was the customer who stomped on the face of a private security guard. Then the one who lit herself on fire inside a store. The person who drank gasoline and the one who brandished an ax. An intoxicated shopper who pelted a worker with soup cans. A shoplifter who punched a night manager twice in the head and then shot him in the chest.

And there was the shooting that killed 10 people, including three workers, at the King Soopers supermarket in Boulder, Colorado, in March 2021. Another shooting left 10 more people dead at a Buffalo, New York, grocery store last month.

In her 37 years in the grocery industry, said Kim Cordova, a union president in Colorado, she had never experienced the level of violence that her members face today.
Has anyone noticed an uptick in "weird" stuff like this in your area?
 
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Seriously, that is tremendously sad. ^^^
 
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At least he didn't have to fly to the airport. :oldbiggrin:
 
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Largely due to a clerical error, a worker was paid a much larger sum back in May. The company (Consorcio Industrial de Alimentos (CIAL)) accidentally paid him 165,398,851 Chilean pesos, which is $174,182. This is about 330 times his regular salary—though other sources report 286 times his salary.

https://scoop.upworthy.com/his-comp...alary-so-he-promptly-resigned-and-disappeared

the company's human resources department picked up on the error and CIAL reached out to the employee to discuss his mistaken wage. Chilean legal documents claim, "He was informed and clarified that this money did not correspond to the payment of any service." Initially, the employee agreed to go to his bank the next morning to sort out the repayment but he then failed to show up to work and went on to disappear completely.

His employers were unable to contact him, despite reaching out to the employee multiple times via telephone, text and the messaging app WhatsApp. On June 2, nonetheless, the worker made contact to tender his resignation. Having heard nothing else from the former employee, the firm has launched legal action against him to try and get the excess pay back. Thus far, no arrests have been made and legal authorities in Chile are still on the hunt for the unnamed worker.

The worker is receiving support from many on social media.
 
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The art of wasting everybody's time and resources:

Couple fined $1,500 for parking in own driveway​

The Craines told ABC-affiliate KGO-TV that the San Francisco Planning Department is enforcing a decades-old section of code that bans motor vehicles of all kinds from being parked on a carpad or setback in front of a house unless it's accompanied by a garage or cover.

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The Craines believe the space has been used for parking since the house was built in 1910. So the planning department told the couple that the city would waive the fine if they could prove that the lot has historically been used for parking.

The Craines dug up a photo of their daughter from 34 years ago, where their car is just visible in the driveway -- but officials said the photo wasn't old enough.

Then, after a lot of Googling, they found a blurry aerial photo from 1938 that shows a car -- or a possibly a horse-and-buggy -- pulling into the driveway of the home. But the planning department says they never were shown this photo and will reconsider Craines' parking plight.

"The 1938 aerial photo shown in ABC 7’s segment was never shared with the Department," Daniel A. Sider, the chief of staff at the San Francisco Planning Department, told ABC News. "The first we learned of it was during Friday’s broadcast. To that end, we’re reopening the matter and hope to have more clarity in the coming days."

The planning department was alerted to the Craines' use of their driveway by an anonymous complaint that was lodged against the Craines and two of their neighbors, who were also tagged with the same violation.
 
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Hornbein said:
Was his name Titus Andronicus?
Hehe, I had forgotten about that piece of Shakespeare. Poor mom ...
 
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Jodo said:
Hehe, I had forgotten about that piece of Shakespeare. Poor mom ...
I thought more of Sweeney Todd. Then again I am Mancunian.
 

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