Circus elephant gets loose, goes for stroll through Butte MT
An elephant was caught on camera Tuesday roaming the streets in Butte. The Jordan World Circus is in town and the elephant apparently escaped from their show. The elephant is now safe with its handlers. But before the elephant was caught, viewers said it did a number two on a Butte lawn.
Butte resident Mataya Smith was driving south on Harrison Avenue with her husband, who alerted her to the strange scene at noon on Tuesday. “I though he just meant it was in the parking lot. And then I looked up and was like, ‘No, there is an elephant in the road!’” said Smith. “My coworker pointed out, ‘There’s an elephant!’ Started jumping up and down, pointing out the window,” Civic Center Town Pump co-manager Josh Hannifin said. “We ran out the door and finally caught a video of the elephant coming through the lot here. Pretty exciting. It’s not everyday you see an elephant walking down Harrison Avenue in Butte, Montana,” added Hannifan, who was about to wrap hot dog buns before noticing the elephant.Town Pump, a local business in Butte, also shared video of the elephant quickly walking past their doors as a man is seen trying to corral the animal.
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Circus elephant gets loose, goes for stroll through Butte MT
An elephant was caught on camera Tuesday roaming the streets in Butte. The Jordan World Circus is in town and the elephant apparently escaped from their show. The elephant is now safe with its handlers. But before the elephant was caught, viewers said it did a number two on a Butte lawn.
Butte resident Mataya Smith was driving south on Harrison Avenue with her husband, who alerted her to the strange scene at noon on Tuesday. “I though he just meant it was in the parking lot. And then I looked up and was like, ‘No, there is an elephant in the road!’” said Smith. “My coworker pointed out, ‘There’s an elephant!’ Started jumping up and down, pointing out the window,” Civic Center Town Pump co-manager Josh Hannifin said. “We ran out the door and finally caught a video of the elephant coming through the lot here. Pretty exciting. It’s not everyday you see an elephant walking down Harrison Avenue in Butte, Montana,” added Hannifan, who was about to wrap hot dog buns before noticing the elephant.Town Pump, a local business in Butte, also shared video of the elephant quickly walking past their doors as a man is seen trying to corral the animal.
The Butte jokes just write themselves, don't they?
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Belgian man whose body makes its own alcohol cleared of drunk-driving
A Belgian man has been acquitted of drunk-driving because he has auto-brewery syndrome (ABS), an extremely rare condition whereby the body produces alcohol, his lawyer has said. Anse Ghesquiere said on Monday that in “another unfortunate coincidence” her client worked at a brewery, but three doctors who independently examined him had confirmed he had ABS.
Belgian media said in the verdict the judge emphasised that the defendant, who was not named in line with local judicial custom, did not experience symptoms of intoxication. Lisa Florin, a clinical biologist with the Belgian hospital AZ Sint-Lucas, said people with ABS produced the same type of alcohol as found in alcoholic drinks but that they generally felt less of its effects. People are not born with ABS but can develop it when they already have another intestine-related condition. Patients can present with symptoms consistent with alcohol intoxication such as slurred speech, stumbling, loss of motor functions, dizziness and belching
(News reports on this incident vary, some more favorable to the priest and others taking the woman’s side. No doubt about one thing: it’s pure Florida.)
You can now buy a flame-throwing robot dog for under $10,000
Thermonator, the first "flamethrower-wielding robot dog," is completely legal in 48 US states.
If you've been wondering when you'll be able to order the flame-throwing robot that Ohio-based Throwflame first announced last summer, that day has finally arrived. The Thermonator, what Throwflame bills as "the first-ever flamethrower-wielding robot dog" is now available for purchase. The price? $9,420.
Thermonator is a quadruped robot with an ARC flamethrower mounted to its back, fueled by gasoline or napalm. It features a one-hour battery, a 30-foot flame-throwing range, and Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity for remote control through a smartphone.
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You can now buy a flame-throwing robot dog for under $10,000
Thermonator, the first "flamethrower-wielding robot dog," is completely legal in 48 US states.
If you've been wondering when you'll be able to order the flame-throwing robot that Ohio-based Throwflame first announced last summer, that day has finally arrived. The Thermonator, what Throwflame bills as "the first-ever flamethrower-wielding robot dog" is now available for purchase. The price? $9,420.
Thermonator is a quadruped robot with an ARC flamethrower mounted to its back, fueled by gasoline or napalm. It features a one-hour battery, a 30-foot flame-throwing range, and Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity for remote control through a smartphone.
..what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? let them take arms.
~~ Thomas Jefferson
War is where the government tells you who the bad guy is.
Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.
-- Benjamin Franklin (maybe)
You can now buy a flame-throwing robot dog for under $10,000
Thermonator, the first "flamethrower-wielding robot dog," is completely legal in 48 US states.
If you've been wondering when you'll be able to order the flame-throwing robot that Ohio-based Throwflame first announced last summer, that day has finally arrived. The Thermonator, what Throwflame bills as "the first-ever flamethrower-wielding robot dog" is now available for purchase. The price? $9,420.
Thermonator is a quadruped robot with an ARC flamethrower mounted to its back, fueled by gasoline or napalm. It features a one-hour battery, a 30-foot flame-throwing range, and Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity for remote control through a smartphone.
That might clear my driveway in a single charge...
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. -Thomas Paine
You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality. -Ayn Rand
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities. -Voltaire
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
A man who managed to get away with skipping work for six years was finally caught out after he was ironically nominated for an award for his long service.
Joaquín García from Spain was a building supervisor for a water treatment plant in Cádiz and was employed by the local government for two decades. But then one day the 69-year-old just stopped showing up to work and still took home his €37,000 annual salary (before tax) - something he was impressively able to keep up for years. This was thanks to the bureaucratic structure of local government where there was a miscommunication between two departments, with each department assuming the other was overseeing Garcia's work.
It was only when Garcia was nominated for an award for his 20 years of service to the company that his jig was finally up. "I wondered whether he was still working there, had he retired, had he died? But the payroll showed he was still receiving a salary," deputy mayor Jorge Blas told Spanish newspaper El Mundo, as per The Local. “I called him up and asked him, ‘What did you do yesterday? The month before, the month before that?’ He didn’t know what to say,” Blas added.
Consequently, Garcia was required to pay a €27,000 fine (equivalent to one year's salary after tax) for his lengthy absence on the job, the BBC reported.
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A man who managed to get away with skipping work for six years was finally caught out after he was ironically nominated for an award for his long service.
Joaquín García from Spain was a building supervisor for a water treatment plant in Cádiz and was employed by the local government for two decades. But then one day the 69-year-old just stopped showing up to work and still took home his €37,000 annual salary (before tax) - something he was impressively able to keep up for years. This was thanks to the bureaucratic structure of local government where there was a miscommunication between two departments, with each department assuming the other was overseeing Garcia's work.
It was only when Garcia was nominated for an award for his 20 years of service to the company that his jig was finally up. "I wondered whether he was still working there, had he retired, had he died? But the payroll showed he was still receiving a salary," deputy mayor Jorge Blas told Spanish newspaper El Mundo, as per The Local. “I called him up and asked him, ‘What did you do yesterday? The month before, the month before that?’ He didn’t know what to say,” Blas added.
Consequently, Garcia was required to pay a €27,000 fine (equivalent to one year's salary after tax) for his lengthy absence on the job, the BBC reported.
So he got to keep the other 5 years of pay? And stay out of jail? Nice.
I hope he gets to keep the stapler, too. IYKYK
..what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? let them take arms.
~~ Thomas Jefferson
War is where the government tells you who the bad guy is.
Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.
-- Benjamin Franklin (maybe)
THAI MAN LEFT TRAUMATIZED AFTER ATTACK BY SNAKE ON TOILET
Thanat Thangtewanon sat down on the toilet on Tuesday when he felt a sharp pain in his testicles—below him, a 12-foot python, emerging from his toilet, had sunken its teeth into his privates. “I felt something biting my balls. It was very painful, so I put my hands in the toilet to see what was wrong. I was shocked that I grabbed a snake,” Thangtewanon told the Daily Mail. “I quickly stood up and plucked it out,” he recounted. The python, still attached to Thangtewanon, would not let up, so, he began whacking it with a toilet brush. “There was blood everywhere, but I was more shocked to have found a python in the toilet,” he added. Images show Thangtewanon’s bathroom sprayed with a new coat of red from the incident. Thangtewanon and his father rushed to the hospital for a tetanus shot and stitches. Fortunate for him, the wound was not deep and doctors told him it would only take a few weeks to heal. Thangtewanon said his “testicles are safe now” and that he was “lucky it wasn’t a venomous snake.” Even if his injuries have healed, the mental scars still haunt him and he hasn’t “used that toilet again since.” Thangtewanon said, “every time I go, I check what’s inside and put a brush in there to make sure.”
Husband admits adding cocaine, MDMA to wife's Cokes in hopes he would marry her daughter
An Indiana man admitted to putting a poisonous "off-white powdery substance" into his wife's Coca-Cola so he could kill her and marry her daughter, according to state court records.
Alfred Ruf, 71, pleaded guilty to aggravated battery in July for trying to poison his wife. He was sentenced on Monday to four years in prison and five years of probation, Indiana court records show.
Ruf told officers in January 2022 that he had been "spiking" his wife's drinks over the last few months with a substance given to him by his wife's daughter, according to a probable cause affidavit obtained by USA TODAY.
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Poisonous fireworms spotted on Texas coast pack a sting
As if sharks, jellyfish and stingrays weren't enough to worry about at the beach. Now Texans can add fireworms to the mix.
A few of the unusual and poisonous marine critters were spotted along the Texas coast recently, with the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies referring to the sighting as one of your "worst nightmares."
"WARNING!!! Your worst nightmares are washing up right now in the form of fireworms!," according to a Facebook post by the Harte Research Institute, a division of Texas A&M University in Corpus Christi.
While these marine polychaeta worms aren’t exclusive to Texas, two out of three reported sightings were documented in the Lone Star State in the last few years. North Carolina is included on the list, where beachgoers also observed a bristle worm back in August 2022.
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A Florida State fan, who identified himself as "@321nole" posted on Twitter before the FSU-Boston College game:
If Florida State loses to BC this weekend, I will eat dog shit out of a red solo cup with a spoon and post a video of me doing it.
Book it!
Final score: Boston College 28 - Florida State 13.
@321nole has closed his Twitter account and hasn't posted since the game. I'd like to believe the delay was caused by an inability to obtain red solo cups. I'm sure that no matter where he lives in Florida, he would have neighbors who would be more than happy to lend him their dog for a few minutes to supply the necessary edible substance.
A Florida State fan, who identified himself as "@321nole" posted on Twitter before the FSU-Boston College game:
If Florida State loses to BC this weekend, I will eat dog shit out of a red solo cup with a spoon and post a video of me doing it.
Book it!
Final score: Boston College 28 - Florida State 13.
@321nole has closed his Twitter account and hasn't posted since the game. I'd like to believe the delay was caused by an inability to obtain red solo cups. I'm sure that no matter where he lives in Florida, he would have neighbors who would be more than happy to lend him their dog for a few minutes to supply the necessary edible substance.
China: Zoo admits that their pandas are ‘painted dogs’ after backlash from visitors
A Chinese zoo has admitted that the pandas in their exhibits were, in fact, “painted dogs.”
According to the New York Post, visitors at the Shanwei Zoo realized they were being bamboozled when the so-called pandas began panting and barking. Pandas are native to China and an international symbol of the country.
In one visitor’s video, one of the “pandas” was visibly panting while resting on a rock in a fence, while another clip had a panda with a long tail strolling about.
“It’s a PANdog,” one viewer wrote, while someone else joked: “That’s the Temu version of a panda.”
“They were panting that’s why they are pandas,” a third noted.
After visitors publicized the ruse on social media, the organizers admitted they’d painted two Chow Chows — a fluffy dog breed originally from northern China — with black-and-white panda markings. Since then, visitors have demanded their money back for false advertising.
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A woman has been feeding raccoons for the past 35 years in Washington, deputies said.
Then one day, she discovered a shocking scene.
Nearly 100 hungry raccoons had overtaken her property, and they wouldn’t leave, the Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office said in an Oct. 7 Facebook post.
Deputies responded Oct. 3 to her home near Poulsbo.
The woman told authorities she had been feeding the animals for decades, deputies said.
But then the raccoons brought their friends to her property about six weeks earlier, deputies said. A video shows dozens of raccoons crowding around her yard.
She told authorities the animals “surround her day and night demanding food.”
At one point, she fled from her home in her car to get away from the horde of raccoons, deputies said.
Now, the woman is working with a wildlife control operator to trap the raccoons on her property, a spokesperson for the Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife told McClatchy News Oct. 8.
Wildlife officials urge the public to not feed wildlife.
“We discourage people from feeding wildlife, as this causes them to lose their natural fear of people, which can lead to aggression,” wildlife officials said.
Feeding wild animals can also draw them together — like in the woman’s case with the raccoons.
Animals can also carry diseases that can transmit to people and pets.
Poulsbo is about a 35-mile drive northwest from Seattle.
There's a horror movie just waiting to be made here.
Political Comment
This is analogous to our border situation.
..what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? let them take arms.
~~ Thomas Jefferson
War is where the government tells you who the bad guy is.
Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.
-- Benjamin Franklin (maybe)
Hacked Robot Vacuums Across the U.S. Started Yelling Slurs
It’s a tale as old as… the Internet of Things era. Robot vacuums made by Ecovacs have been reported roving around people’s homes, yelling profanities at them through the onboard speakers after the company’s software was found to be vulnerable to intrusion.
“It sounded like a broken-up radio signal or something,” Daniel Swenson told the outlet. “You could hear snippets of maybe a voice.” He opened the vacuum’s app to find a stranger was accessing its live camera feed and remote control feature, but assumed it might be an error. After resetting the password and rebooting the robot, the vacuum quickly started moving again:
This time, there was no ambiguity about what was coming out of the speaker. A voice was yelling racist obscenities, loud and clear, right in front of Mr Swenson’s son.
“F*** n******s,” screamed the voice, over and over again.
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