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Hook those brains up to a computer and we can dramatically increase the quality of online discourse.
 
Cyberpig 5000 would be the best poster ever!
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So, we are one step closer to cybernetic pigs!:assimilate:
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-43928318
Actually the Chinese government has already started handing out special equipment that looks like sunglasses but actually identifies suspects and malcontents to their security personnel and tells them to arrest those people.

Wait, I've just clicked on the ‘next page’ button. It's a different type of pig.
 
Your link is broken. :)

"This incident resulted in the use of significant resources that were not available to attend to genuine emergency calls for service," police said in a release.
Really?
So they found the car, they looked at each other like doofuses, spent significant time to figure out that this is actually not a movie shoot of some kind.
But then they had to absolutely urgently deal with this to the point of, supposedly, prioritising it - absurdly - over "genuine emergency calls"?
Really?

Firefighters then safely removed the vehicle.
So there was an emergency that could have been helped by additional firefighters - like, say, a fire - going on while they were doing that?

I find this way of prioritisation really confusing.
Also: Wow, Toronto emergency services are really easily tapped out.
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I am now through multiple links on this event. And i can still find no mention of maybe - wild idea - police pointing out that this is maybe dangerous reckless feces to do. Noho!
But think of the work! They had to do work! Unnecessarily! Because other people were inconsiderate jerks! Imagine for that to happen.... to anybody!

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Look, in what a real hurry they are to get to that fire and all those other emergencies they are neglecting.
They look positively frantic.


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Hey, but i guess this disturbed traffic a lot.
I bet they shut down half of Toronto's motorways over this.

Newscaster:
"It only took firefighters seconds to cut it loose."

Ok, maybe not.


 
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Your link is broken. :)
whoopsie. no idea how i missed that.
Looks like they even went through the trouble of removing the windows first. I wonder if they removed the engine and transmission too. That would have made it considerably easier to string it up.
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University engineering students in the US, Canada and the UK have a history of similar tomfoolery.

In 2009, one antic from University of British Columbia students failed when the cables holding up a suspended car from a bridge in Vancouver broke, plunging the vehicle into the water.
Aw shucks! There goes their originality points.:sad:
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In 2001, UBC students claimed responsibility for dangling the shell of an old Volkswagen Beetle from the railing of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.

In 1994, MIT engineering placed a police car on the roof of a campus building and it had to be disassembled to be removed.
Engineering students are awesome!:goodjob:
 
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well Engineering student pranks > frat boy pranks.
 
Makes me wonder what kind of pranks rocket engineering students pull......:mischief:
 
I'm sure his application has already been submitted. I wonder if the Darwin Awards has a Selfie category.....
 
The last two sentences prompted my dystopian future comment:

The Hindustan Times said "the fellow passengers who watched the entire act were busy in shooting the incident instead of trying to rescue him."

This is the third wild animal selfie death in this region of India in the past year.
 
Well, if he was dumb enough to do it......besides, The Indian Justice system has an unfortunate habit of going after people who help victims after an accident and holding them responsible 'cause they can't be bothered to do any actual investigative work. Unless the good Samaritan pays a bribe.....
 
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