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cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/17610946 > >The squirrels jumped on the Great Western Railway (GWR) 8.54am train from Reading to Gatwick on Monday, forcing passengers to flee to other carriages. > > > >The passengers alerted staff, who tried to lure the squirrels off the train at Redhill with snacks, before trying to force them off with brooms - but to no avail. > > > >They subsequently called the journey off entirely.
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Not just a short drive, either.
www.palmbeachpost.com
"The bag could have been there a day or two or maybe just hours, but those salty morsels of processed corn made soft by thick humidity triggered the growth of mold on the cavern floor and on nearby cave formations. “To the ecosystem of the cave it had a huge impact,” the park noted in a social media post, explaining that cave crickets, mites, spiders and flies soon organized to eat and disperse the foreign mess, essentially spreading the contamination."
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cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/17451059 > > Andi Norton, 32, who also goes by the name Ben Havoc, said in an Instagram post earlier this month that he blew his nose and, “low and behold,” a Lego dot piece came out. > > > >Havoc explained that, when he was six years old, he put the Lego dot up his nose. > > > >The toy was “too small for me to reach in my nose and grab it,” he said. So, he said he “had the brilliant idea” of shoving a Lego man up his nose to collect it. > > > >“At this point, I’ve panicked loudly and my mom came in and, in her panic, she’s looking at my nose and seeing there’s a Lego head stuck in my nostril,” he said. > > > >His mom pulled out that second toy with a tweezer – believing it to be the only piece. > > > >For the last 26 years, Havoc said he has suffered from multiple breathing issues including asthma and has recently been diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea. > > > > He said that his doctor had recommended he blow his nose in the shower during the summer months in order to take advantage of the steam and humidity. > > > > After following that advice for the past six months, one day he got a big surprise when the Lego piece fell out of his nose.
The hero we don't deserve
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cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/17245204 > > Family members of Krishna Kumar said they took him to Ganpati Hospital in Saran after he vomited several times. "We admitted him and the vomiting stopped soon after. But the doctor Ajit Kumar Puri said he needs to be operated upon. He conducted the operation by watching videos on YouTube. My son died later," Chandan Shaw. > > > > The family members said they do not know if the 'doctor' had proper qualifications. "We think he was self-styled and fake," they said. > > > >The teenager's grandfather said the boy was feeling better after the vomiting stopped. "But the doctor sent the father away on an errand and started operating on the boy without the family's consent. The boy was in pain. When we asked the doctor why he was in pain, he snapped at us and asked if we were doctors. Later in the evening, the boy stopped breathing. He was revived (with CPR) and then rushed to Patna. He died on the way. They left the boy's body on the stairs of the hospital and fled," said Krishna Kumar's grandfather Prahlad Prasad Shaw.
www.theguardian.com
Scratch one life
www.latimes.com
The couple took over a decade to actually join the club, with annual dues of $31,500, but spending closer to $125,000 a year to visit the Anaheim parks. They were expelled from the club five years later when park security guards found the husband intoxicated in the park, a violation of club rules. The couple has since spent $400,000 suing to regain access to the club and ‘clear his reputation,’ claiming he was not drunk but suffering from a “vestibular migraine” which looks a lot like being drunk and can be triggered by red wine. They claim they were targeted for retaliation because they complained about a different club member harassing other club members and staff. The couple plan to appeal.
www.startribune.com
The wipers on the bus ARE TOO DAMNED LOUD
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Same people who tried to charge their iPhones in the microwave?
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cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/16916591 > > Police in Kentucky are looking for a man who has defecated on the same porch multiple times over the past week for no apparent reason. > > > >Louisville Metro Police say they have received three police reports about the alleged “porch pooper,” who’s since gained lots of attention online after doorbell videos of him have been posted on Reddit and Instagram. > > > >The homeowner, who did not want to be identified, being targeted by the so-called porch pooper said he first noticed something was up on Tuesday. > > > >“I went out to my front porch that morning and noticed what I thought was cat poop,” he said. > > > >The homeowner said he cleaned it up and checked his Nest doorbell camera from the night before and that’s when he realized it certainly wasn’t a cat. > > > >“Not only did he defecate, but he also urinated on our welcome mat,” he said.
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Your. Employer. Doesn't. Care. About. You.
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Scientists: Outliers aren't reliable data points. Us: FUCK YOU WE'RE GOING TO DRINK AND SMOKE LIKE THAT ONE LADY WHO LIVED TO BE 114.
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This wasn't so fucking awesome
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If only there was a way to turn those IT skills into a paying career....
This wasn't in the date night song....
The cult of personality surrounding Elon Musk appears to have reached a new peak. ... a giant bronze statue of Elon Musk has been spotted being transported on a flatbed towed by a Tesla Cybertruck. ... The giant Elon Musk statue was spotted in Brownsville, Texas, where Elon Musk's space venture, SpaceX, is building Starbase, a launch pad and rocket factory that will produce the next-generation SpaceX Starship rocket. ... There is a lot of excitement for SpaceX and Elon Musk in the area and a group calling itself ElonRWA appears to have set up shop in Brownsville, and this group is behind the Elon Musk statue. ... ElonRWA took possession of the original drawing of Elon Musk and turned it into an NFT (non-fungible token). After the image is turned into an NFT, you can now buy and own a part of the digital asset. ... the giant Elon Musk statue being towed by a Cybertruck is an attempt to gain notoriety and direct people to purchase a fraction of the Elon Musk drawing NFT and own a piece of the meme.
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cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/16267493 > > Lying that he was a volunteer at a student-care centre and that he needed to complete a game challenge to get back his slippers, Tan Boon Hwee convinced a woman to let him draw smiley faces on her toes. > > > >After drawing on her toes, he touched her feet so that he could adjust their positioning for picture-taking. > > > > For this, Tan, 35, was sentenced on Thursday (Aug 15) to eight months' jail for outrage of modesty. > > > >On top of that, there was another penalty of 36 days' jail because he committed the offence while on a remission order, which is typically issued to prisoners who show good conduct and are then allowed to be released after serving two-thirds of their sentence. > > > >Tan, who has a sexual interest in feet, was convicted before for similar offences from 2019. > > > >He has chronic adjustment disorder with depressed mood and paraphilic disorder (related to atypical sexual interests), but the latest assessment by the Institute of Mental Health, dated May 3 this year, found that these disorders had no contributory link to his offending. > > > > ... > > > > In April 2022, TODAY reported that Tan was sentenced to two weeks and five days' jail after being convicted of two charges of outrage of modesty. > > > >In one of these offences, he had claimed to be a member of a non-existent charity called the "Barefoot Walking Society" when he molested a woman by caressing the soles of her feet. They had met through dating application Tinder. > > > >In 2019, he was fined S$8,000 for five molestation offences.