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The discussion revolves around sharing unusual and funny news stories. One highlighted case involves artist Peter Doig, who is being sued for $5 million by a man claiming a painting is his, despite Doig's insistence that he did not create it. Another story features inmates in Texas who broke out of their cell to save an unconscious guard, raising questions about their behavior. Additionally, a couple of dogs in the UK were caught damaging cars, leading to their eventual capture and a search for adoptive homes. The thread showcases a variety of bizarre incidents, emphasizing the oddities found in everyday news.
  • #751
fresh_42 said:
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.
mfb said:
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.
 
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  • #753
Astronuc said:
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'
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This ends badly.
 
  • #754
nsaspook said:
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.
 
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  • #755
Just where should I put this o_O

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.
 
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  • #758
Watch with sound on:


This will probably be the kids' best memory of NK.
Diplomats have a very broad job description.
 
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  • #759
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...
 
  • #760
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? o0)
 
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  • #761
berkeman said:
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? o0)
And ... did they actually injected air? If you don't get thromboses from Covid-19, you get them from vaccination, or what?
 
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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).
 
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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.
 
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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.
:oops: :frown: There was one survivor, who was taken to hospital.
 
  • #770
berkeman said:
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?
 
  • #771
Tom.G said:
I hope the individual in the photo is an actor, not a medic!
It could be a "stock photo". Like:

repair-soldering-a-printed-circuit-board-204001492.jpg
 
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  • #772
Keith_McClary said:
It could be a "stock photo". Like:
OMG, you owe me a new keyboard! :-p
 
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  • #773
Tom.G said:
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!
Yeah, I'm not sure what is going on with the syringe and vial, but the thing that caught my eye is the terrible fit of her gloves. There's no way I could work with gloves like that. I guess it's possible that they ran out of every size except for XXL gloves, but I don't think I'd be taking pictures on that day... (plus I always have extra pairs of my favorite gloves on me, in case there is any issue with availability where I'm working)
 
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Big Dog's Backyard Ultra: The toughest, weirdest race you've never heard of
https://www.bbc.com/sport/56720358

Guillaume Calmettes, a French software engineer who ran 245 miles - 59 hours - to win in 2017, says: "It's painful, but it's painful in a good way."

"I enjoy some level of suffering," says American Maggie Guterl, who became the first woman to win when she breezed her way through 250 miles in 2019. "Most ultra-runners don't want to go to a spa for a relaxing break."

Johan Steene, a 46-year-old chief executive of a Swedish technology company who clocked up 283 miles in 68 hours to win in 2018, describes it as a "special game with fantastic rules".

"It's a fun mental challenge," says American Courtney Dauwalter, runner-up to Steene with 279 miles and a big enough star in the niche world of ultra-running to be a guest on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast.

A 36-year-old former science teacher who is now one of very few professional ultra-runners, Dauwalter is no stranger to unfathomably long races. In 2017 she was outright winner of the Moab 240 - a 240-mile race over the mountains of Utah - beating the fastest man by 10 hours.

Running continuously for 3 or 4 days?! :oops: :rolleyes:
 
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  • #777
mfb said:
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.
The boulder story continues!
Boulders block road in Boulder Canyon near Boulder according to Boulder County Sheriff’s Office

No information whether it was the size of a small boulder or large boulder.
 
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Its a bold story, but could be boulder.
 
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  • #780
Ibix said:
I'm just glad the roads aren't blocked near Buffalo.
That neighborhood uses both Rain and Snow, usually but not always at different times of the year.
 
  • #781
This could be an Onion article if it wasn't a serious one.

An underground radioactive chemical storage tank in southeast Washington state is leaking gallons of nuclear waste...

Ok.

his department recognized that B-109's liquid level was decreasing more than a year ago, but that they weren't sure what was causing it. The Washington DOE were notified Thursday, however, that the tank was indeed leaking...

Hmm, decreasing liquid levels in underground tanks. I wonder what alternative hypothesis they had besides leaking.

constructed during World War II to make plutonium for nuclear weapons, includes tanks that contain various mixed waste materials made of both radioactive components and some of the "most dangerous waste created over four decades,"...

Hmm, so it dates back to 8 decades ago, and it's leaking the most dangerous waste created over 4 decades? Which decades are we talking about exactly?

In the past, more than 67 tanks at the reservation have been suspected to be leaking or have actually leaked...

Some of it is confirmed leaking and some of it might be leaking, but also could be just shrinking, or possibly escaping the tank through some kind of not leaking based process.

"It will just basically sit around in the soil but in fact, it does migrate and some of it has migrated," he said...

Hmm. So it will just sit there, but it won't just sit there and some of it has already gone from there. Sounds good.

Alarming, but also reassuring. It's like if the doctor says you might be dying of cancer, but this could also just be a dream or a simulation.

https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEESzqcXZPpFV0yGbZAXLkwQqGQgEKhAIACoHCAowyNj6CjDyiPICMJyFxQU?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US:en
 
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Jarvis323 said:
This could be an Onion article if it wasn't a serious one.
Ok.
Hmm, decreasing liquid levels in underground tanks. I wonder what alternative hypothesis they had besides leaking.
Hmm, so it dates back to 8 decades ago, and it's leaking the most dangerous waste created over 4 decades? Which decades are we talking about exactly?
Some of it is confirmed leaking and some of it might be leaking, but also could be just shrinking, or possibly escaping the tank through some kind of not leaking based process.
Hmm. So it will just sit there, but it won't just sit there and some of it has already gone from there. Sounds good.

https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEESzqcXZPpFV0yGbZAXLkwQqGQgEKhAIACoHCAowyNj6CjDyiPICMJyFxQU?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US:en
Yes, the internet has killed journalism. It's all about how fast you can type and how many clicks you can get. Copy editors have gone the way of buggy whips.
 
  • #783
In a documentary about long-term implications in Chernobyl, a Ukrainian scientist said, that one major risk is ##{}^{241}\text{Am}## as a consequence of ##{}^{241}\text{Pu}## decay, which was produced in the facility. Americium is solvable in water and bears therefore the possibility that it enters the food chain via groundwater or leaks.

So "stays there, will migrate, has already leaked" can be plausible.
 
  • #784
Jarvis323 said:
Hmm, decreasing liquid levels in underground tanks. I wonder what alternative hypothesis they had besides leaking.
John drank it.

No information how problematic the tank contents are, or why they didn't bother to convert its content to something solid in all these decades.
 
  • #787
fresh_42 said:
Belgian farmer accidentally moved the border with France, making his home country about 1,000 square meters bigger.
This will make up for that time the French janitor knocked over the Meter Bar, making everything smaller.
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Some turtles do this when they hibernate underwater.
They have greatly reduced metabolic oxygen needs when hibernating and can stay underwater a long time during non-hibernating.
 
  • #795
mfb said:
How can you know it's deadlier than 7/8 with just 4 cases?
I don't know. Most of the papers here are saying that it is deadlier, which is why I posted it.
 
  • #796
China 2nd league football (soccer). A millionaire and club owner forced the team manager to send his son on the pitch:

 
  • #797
China ultramarathon: Severe weather kills 21 runners
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-57216601
High winds and freezing rain hit participants in the 100km (60-mile) ultramarathon in the Yellow River Stone Forest, a tourist site in Gansu province, on Saturday.
The race was halted when some of the 172 runners went missing, and a rescue operation was launched.
Eight of the 151 rescued runners were injured.

I'm guessing it is in the Jingtai Yellow River Stone Forest, which is located in the southeast of Jingtai County, Baiyin City, Gansu Province.

In Jingtai county:
Highest elevation 3,321 m (10,896 ft)
Lowest elevation 1,276 m (4,186 ft)

https://www.npr.org/2021/05/23/999546242/21-die-in-extreme-weather-in-china-cross-country-race

The race is a 100-km ultramarathon! In the mountains.

The high-altitude Huanghe Shilin Mountain Marathon began saturday morning in sunny conditions, with 172 runners in the lying area. According to local data, around noon yesterday, the ultrarunners contesting the high-altitude stage of the 100-kilometre background race had already arrived between 20 and 31 kilometres of the route.
https://trailrunningspain.com/2021/...in-marathon-extreme-weather-kills-21-runners/

Rescuers said hail, freezing rain and high winds hit the runners when they were about 20-30 kilometers in on the high-altitude section of the race held in the Yellow River Stone Forest in northwestern Gansu province.
https://www.dw.com/en/china-extreme-weather-kills-21-runners-in-ultramarathon/a-57633712

When in the mountains, it is important to be prepared for a rapid change in weather. In places like the Grand Canyon, hikers are told to be prepared for extreme heat and extreme cold.
 
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  • #799
fresh_42 said:
Avoid totalitarian regimes by all means, even in air during a fly-over!
Ryanair flight was flying from Greece to Lithuania. I wonder how close they were to the Polish border.

They should have tried to make it to Polish airspace, and contacted NATO for protection.
 
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The blue line is by car. It is 900 km longer, so the deviation above EU countries would only have been about 300 km I guess. Still cheaper than the gas needed for an additional landing.

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