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Yeah, I kind of wondered which tree they tied him to. Somewhere in the article it mentions that he was indeed seen walking along setting fires...
 
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Wait, what?

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https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/27/entertainment/chris-evans-dogs/index.html

@phinds -- Who's your daddy? :smile:
 
An airline passenger has been fined nearly $2,000 after two undeclared egg and beef sausage McMuffins and a ham croissant were found in their luggage by an airport security dog upon arriving in Australia.

The unnamed person traveling from Indonesia to Australia was fined $2,664 Australian dollars ($1,874 in American dollars) after the trio of McDonald's breakfast sandwiches were found in their luggage on arriving at Darwin Airport, https://minister.agriculture.gov.au/watt/media-releases/darwin-detector-dog-zinta-mcmuffins
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/airline-passenger-fined-nearly-2-162302473.html

I could understand raw (or unprocessed) meats, but the food was cooked! Some government policies are simply nuts (absurdly irrational).
 
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Astronuc said:
I could understand raw (or unprocessed) meats, but the food was cooked! Some government policies are simply nuts (absurdly irrational).

From a similar link: https://abc7news.com/passenger-fined-$1846-for-bringing-mcmuffins-to-australia/12094101/
The meat products were sniffed out by a newly trained biosecurity detector dog named Zinta.
Hell, even *I* could smell that in luggage! Sign me up! :smile:

The seized meat will be tested for foot and mouth disease before it is destroyed.
If it tests positive, McDonald's (or McDowell's, whichever) in Bali, Indonesia will be in more trouble than this airline passenger...
 
berkeman said:
[...] Indonesia will be in more trouble than this airline passenger...
It already is.

Various Australian agencies are extremely worried about letting in FMD. See this.

@Astronuc: Alas, such vigilance is not "nuts". Not at all. :oldfrown:
 
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Astronuc said:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/airline-passenger-fined-nearly-2-162302473.html

I could understand raw (or unprocessed) meats, but the food was cooked! Some government policies are simply nuts (absurdly irrational).
It's pretty common that you have to declare food and some countries ban meat, cooked or not.
The US doesn't allow any meat, and undeclared food products can come with a fine of up to $10,000.
The UK doesn't allow meat from outside the EU and a couple of associated countries
Germany does allow the import but you still have to declare it (when from outside the EU and a couple of associated countries). This is probably an EU-wide rule.
 
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Copy-paste error results in Nevada homebuyer getting 87 properties for the price of one home​

https://finance.yahoo.com/copy-paste-error-results-nevada-212533929.html

RENO, Nev. – A Nevada homebuyer literally got more than she bargained for after ending up with an entire swath of lots in a subdivision in the west-central part of the state – while buying a single-family home.

The buyer was originally purchasing a single-family home in Sparks, Nevada, valued at $594,481. However, the Washoe County (Nevada) Assessor and Washoe County Recorder’s Office had records showing the buyer gained not just the property she was buying but also 84 extra house lots – and two additional parcels – in Toll Brothers’ Stonebrook development just northeast of Reno.

The properties include several home sites that have already been built on and sold. At least 64 of the lots were put under the buyer’s name as of Saturday.

The transaction was flagged by the assessor’s office, which says it quickly notified the title company involved in the transaction.

“It appears Westminster Title out of Las Vegas may have copied and pasted a legal description from another Toll Brothers transfer when preparing (the homebuyer’s) deed for recordation,” said Cori Burke, chief deputy assessor for Washoe County.
Now that is a pretty big Ooops!
 
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A Capuchin monkey at a California zoo dialed 911 on a cellphone, prompting San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office deputies to respond to the scene.

They quickly found that none of the humans at Zoo to You near Paso Robles had made the call — and eventually figured out that a monkey named Route was behind it, officials said.

“Apparently, Route had picked up the zoo’s cell phone... which was in the zoo’s golf cart... which is used to travel around the zoo’s 40 acre site,” the sheriff’s department said in a Facebook post.

“We’re told Capuchin monkeys are very inquisitive and will grab anything and everything and just start pushing buttons,” the post continued.

“And that’s what Route did... just so happened it was in the right combination of numbers to call us.”
https://www.firehouse.com/tech-comm...8140/monkey-grabs-phone-dials-911-from-ca-zoo
 
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Woman charged $8,000 after rental car company claims she drove 36,000 kilometres in three days

That's an average speed of 500 km/h.
I remember reading of someone who was charged with doing 40mph in a 30mph limit. The police said they'd noticed his speed, followed him for a while to ascertain that he was maintaining 40, then stopped him. He got off the charge by pointing out that given the times and places they reported first seeing him and stopping him he'd have to have been doing at least 120 the whole way...
 
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He got off the charge by pointing out that given the times and places they reported first seeing him and stopping him he'd have to have been doing at least 120 the whole way...
To drop the issue on the photo below (198km/h) took an official paper from the manufacturer about the top speed (in mint shape it's around 120km/h) of that decently rusted piece of old hardware.
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On the other hand, one such photo definitely makes a selling point o0)
 
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To drop the issue on the photo below (198km/h) took an official paper from the manufacturer about the top speed (in mint shape it's around 120km/h) of that decently rusted piece of old hardware.
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On the other hand, one such photo definitely makes a selling point o0)
I used to have a van like that. The cops stopped me a couple of times. I guess it reminds them of the Cheech and Chong van.
 

Erling Haaland statue stolen after complaints it doesn’t look like him​

The three-meter-high effigy was built on the trunk of a century-old tree and they suspect that a man with a crane pulled it out at night.
https://en.as.com/soccer/erling-haaland-statue-stolen-after-complaints-it-doesnt-look-like-him-n/

The title of the story on Eurosport was:

Statue Of Erling Haaland Stolen: "Some Complained That It Is Too Ugly"​

https://www.eurosport.de/fussball/p...-dass-sie-zu-hasslich-_sto9101496/story.shtml
 
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Queen did not want ‘long, boring’ funeral, says former archbishop of York​

Fortunately, she no longer has to sit through endless hours of boring drivel almost every day, and call it "service".