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he will sit there for a while and will take off in Airforce One or whatever and remain out of sight for hours . Impossible to talk about in some place where people do not like the idea that 9/11 was an inside job and the attackers like added some freeplay . That the US Republicans will use , no , actually are using it for proof of Satan's rule over the Democrats and this is mocked or is not mocked is trivial , not on par with that thing 22 or so years ago .
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Sweden's yule goat has been burned, run over and shot. This year, it's going to the birds
'To scare them wouldn't feel like the Christmas spirit, and that's the Christmas goat’s purpose'
The Gävle goat has been torched, shot with flaming arrows, run over by cars and beaten with clubs. But this year, the massive straw statue has a new antagonist to contend with — hungry birds."This has never happened before," Anna-Karin Niemann, the goat's spokesperson, told As It Happens host Nil Köksal.
A particularly rainy harvest season made it difficult for farmers to get the grain out of the straw for this year's 13-metre tall yuletide goat, a Christmas tradition in the Swedish village of Gävle.
As a result, jackdaws and other hungry birds have taken roost upon its mighty horns, where they're ripping off the straw from its frame in search of tasty treats.
"He looks a little bit uncombed or unkempt right now," Niemann said. "But to me, of course, he's still very handsome."
'He's had a few rough years'
The Gävle goat has long been a favourite target of arsonists, vandals and would-be thieves.In 1966, the first year it was installed, someone burned it down on New Year's Eve. In the nearly six decades since, it's only survived the holiday season unscathed about 16 times.
In 2005, two vandals — one dressed as Santa Claus and the other as a gingerbread man — shot it with burning arrows. In 2010, someone tried unsuccessfully to bribe a guard to look the other way so they could steal it with a helicopter.
It survived last year, but was razed to the ground in 2021. In 2019, the main goat made it through Christmas, while its "little brother" goat went down in flames.
"He's had a few rough years," Niemann said.
And yet, every year, the goat returns. This year, Niemann says, it took 10 people 1,000 hours to build it, at a cost of about $26,260.
"He's guarded around the clock," Niemann said. "We have guards and we have security cameras — and, also, other security measures. But we don't want people with bad intentions knowing exactly what we do, so I'm sorry I can't be more specific."
'Let the birds eat'
Nevertheless, Niemann says the town won't be deploying any of its top secret security measures to chase the birds away."On the first day the Christmas goat was up, we saw the birds. And at that moment we decided that we wouldn't scare them," she said.
"To scare them wouldn't feel like the Christmas spirit, and that's the Christmas goat's purpose."
The people of Gävle, she says, support the decision.
"We got so many emails and phone calls," Niemann said. "They think it's positive that the Christmas goat … gets a new purpose. And they say, 'Let the birds eat.'"
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/gävle-goat-birds-1.7066692
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So how long has weed been legal in Sweden?
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Mouse filmed tidying up man's shed every night
Despite being an avid wildlife photographer, retired postman Rodney Holbrook never expected to capture a Ratatouille-style scene unfolding in his own shed.After regularly discovering that things from the night before had been mysteriously tidied, he set up a night vision camera on his workbench.
It captured a mouse picking up clothes pegs, corks, nuts and bolts.
He has since nicknamed the well-kept rodent Welsh Tidy Mouse.
The 75-year-old from Builth Wells, Powys, said the tidying ritual had been going on for two months.
"At first I noticed that some food that I was putting out for the birds was ending up in some old shoes I was storing in the shed," he said.
"Ninety nine times out of 100 the mouse will tidy up throughout the night.
"It is incredible really that they put them all back in the box, I think it's possible that they enjoy it."
Mr Holbrook believes the mouse is using the objects to hide away nuts, and so far the arrangement has been working in his favour.
"I don't bother to tidy up now, I leave things out of the box and they put it back in its place by the morning," he said.
"I think he would tidy my wife away if I left her in there."
No object seems to trouble the mouse either, as it has even been caught carrying cable ties to the pot.
"It's been a bit of an experiment really, I've added different things to the desk to see if they can lift it," said Mr Holbrook.
It is not the first time he has come across an organised rodent.
When living in Bristol in 2019, his friend reached out for help fixing up a night camera when another mouse was keeping their shed in order.
"That one video went viral and reached people around the world," he said,
"So I can't believe here in Builth Wells we have had the same thing happen years later."
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-67902966
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Is anyone following the secret Jewish tunnels in Brooklyn story?
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Link. There's more quoted in the comments.Link?
I don't have any idea what's happening either. The first clip I saw I thought was a weird edgy TikTok prank, but turns out it's real and now the police have been called in to action?
I was hoping someone here might know just what the blazes is going on
ahahahahaha ^^
Bamspeedy
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Skimmed an article....
Illegally constructed tunnel, apparently in an attempt to connect with a womans bathhouse (shut down long ago, so not an attempt to get to women....but perhaps to use the abandoned facilities?). They had been digging for a year.
Tunnel ordered to be sealed up with concrete, and the riot was an attempt to stop the closure of the tunnel. Dispute over who owns the property, with one group that claims ownership condemning the young 'agitators' who were involved in the riot- apparently the other group that claims ownership.
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Nude man nabbed by police after ‘cannonball’ plunge into giant aquarium at Bass Pro Shop in Alabama
LEEDS, Alabama (AP) — A man crashed his car outside a Bass Pro Shop in Alabama, stripped down to his birthday suit and plunged into the giant aquarium inside the store, police said.The ordeal happened Thursday night in front of shocked shoppers in the town just outside Birmingham, Leeds Police Chief Paul Irwin said.
The 42-year-old Alabama man did a “cannonball” leap into the aquarium and then stood under a waterfall. He left the water to yell at two officers, then dove back into the aquarium, police said.
The man eventually climbed over the side of the aquarium and fell to the concrete floor below. Police then apprehended him, the news site Al.com reported.
He faces several charges including public lewdness, disorderly conduct and criminal mischief.
The man was in the water for about five minutes before officers arrived, Irwin said.
https://apnews.com/article/bass-pro...man-arrested-1e3cd9caf8a5eea6e1c4718498c914b3
Bamspeedy
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The guy the police pulled out? Was there in protest to stop the tunnel from being filled with concrete by construction workers. Similar tactic of standing in front of a bulldozer to stop the destruction of a house.
Bamspeedy
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'Expanding the building'. I assume to make use of the nearby abandoned bathhouse, maybe?
Bamspeedy
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Obviously they didnt think it through very well. Most people who try to save money by not getting proper permits dont think things through. (And a tunnel was probably never going to be approved.)
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Exploding toilet at a Dunkin’ store in Florida left a customer filthy and injured, lawsuit claims
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A customer has filed a negligence lawsuit against Dunkin’, claiming he was injured by an exploding toilet at one of the coffee chain’s locations in central Florida.Paul Kerouac is seeking more than $100,000 in a lawsuit filed Wednesday in state court in Orlando, claiming he suffered “severe and long term injuries” following the explosion of a toilet in the men’s room of a Dunkin’ location in Winter Park, Florida, a year ago.
After the explosion left Kerouac covered in human feces, urine and debris, he walked out of the men’s room seeking help from workers and the store’s manager, according to the lawsuit. An employee told him that they were aware of the “problem with the toilet” since there had been previous incidents, the lawsuit says, without diving into further details about the explosion.
When contacted Thursday by email for more details on Kerouac’s injuries, his attorney, Scott Spradley, said he was tied up and couldn’t answer the questions until the following day. The Canton, Massachusetts-based company did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment.
The lawsuit says Kerouac suffered “bodily injury,” and he has required mental health care and counseling since the incident in January 2022.
https://apnews.com/article/dunkin-d...rida-lawsuit-db7794a8ed61a8f1350bfbaffb094aa8
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