My thoughts were there are tractors and there are tractors. The big ones you use for plowing and such you are a long way from the ground and you could miss a lot. What the one you use for mowing is like I do not know.
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Yeah, I know mowing tractors aren't as big as those 'big' tractors, I'd see one outside my house twice a year (very edge of town, city pays the guy to mow a small section owned by the city). Still, where driver sits (whether it has a cab or not), it's higher than being in a car or riding lawnmower for example.
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YouTube star ARRESTED after huge NYC riot over free PS5 giveaway
A riot has broken out at New York City's Union Square sparked by YouTuber Kai Cenat handing out free Playstation 5s. Cenat has been arrested and is in police custody.
I have not seen it reported if he actually gave them away.Playstation 5 riot in New York City!
YouTube star ARRESTED after huge NYC riot over free PS5 giveaway
A riot has broken out at New York City's Union Square sparked by YouTuber Kai Cenat handing out free Playstation 5s. Cenat has been arrested and is in police custody.
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Italian man crushed to death under falling cheese wheels
An Italian man has been crushed to death under thousands of wheels of a Parmesan-style cheese, authorities said.Giacomo Chiapparini, 74, was buried when a shelf broke in his warehouse in the Lombardy region on Sunday, firefighter Antonion Dusi told AFP.
The collapse created a domino effect bringing down thousands of wheels, which weigh about 40kg (84lbs) each.
It took 12 hours to find Mr Chiapparini's body, Mr Dusi said.
Some of the wheels reportedly fell about 10m (33ft) and a local resident told Italian media the collapse sounded "like thunder".
The economic damage caused has been estimated at €7m (£6m).
Speaking to Italian media, a neighbour described Mr Chiapparini as "very supportive… and generous". They also said he lost a child decades ago.
The warehouse, located in Romano di Lombardia, about 50km (31 miles) east of Milan, contained a total of 25,000 wheels of Grana Padano, a hard cheese which resembles Parmesan and is popular in Italy.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66429342
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This is just mental.Playstation 5 riot in New York City!
YouTube star ARRESTED after huge NYC riot over free PS5 giveaway
A riot has broken out at New York City's Union Square sparked by YouTuber Kai Cenat handing out free Playstation 5s. Cenat has been arrested and is in police custody.
A few consoles and these ppl lose their minds.
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Car crashes into second floor of Pennsylvania home
A man drove his car into the second floor of a Pennsylvania home on Sunday in what officials say was an "intentional act".Charges are pending against the driver after police found a grey vehicle sticking out of the side of the house in the city of Lewistown.
Officials have not said how the vehicle made its way to the second floor.
"This is the stuff you see in movies," a fire official told the Washington Post.
One of the homeowners was inside at the time of the crash, but not injured, according to the Junction Fire Company, which assisted in the response to the crash.
The driver was taken to the hospital with injuries after the crash, local media report.
Sam Baumgardner, an administrator with the Junction Fire Company, told the Washington Post he thought the driver hit a culvert - a tunnel that carries a stream under a road or railway - right beside the house, which caused the car to fly in the air.
In a report, Lewistown police said they had determined through an investigation that the crash was "an intentional act".
State police in Lewistown told local news outlet WPMT that the crash was caused by the driver "attempting to inflict self-harm due to a mental health episode". Officials added that the driver will face charges for the crash.
The BBC has reached out to police for comment.
The fire department said it took about three hours to remove the car from the second floor.
Rescue crews helped stabilise the house and put a tarp over the hole from the crash because of upcoming storms, the Junction Fire Company said in a post on Facebook.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66443925
Danish Commune Combats Criminals
BY SUNE ENGEL RASMUSSEN
COPENHAGEN—For 50 years, Christiania, an anarchic, free-spirited commune in Denmark’s capital, has gained global fame for its open-air cannabis market, attracting visitors from across the world, along with hardened criminals and regular police crackdowns.
Now a group of residents has risen up against the gangs that have taken control of the trade, in a risky, clandestine operation aimed at shutting down the famed Pusher Street. In recent years, organized criminals have pushed out most of Christiania’s residents from the lucrative cannabis trade, souring one of Northern Europe’s biggest tourist attractions and a symbol of Danish tolerance. After a spate of violent incidents, including several killings, many residents have had enough. Before dawn on Tuesday, about 50 Christianites—as residents of the commune are called—gathered to watch the cranes they ordered use shipping containers and concrete walls to block off entrances into Pusher Street, hours before drug dealers would arrive to begin the day’s business. “This action is taken in the hope of freeing Christiania from the tyranny of gangs and hard-core criminals,” the activists said, adding that they did so at great risk to their own safety. “We are ordinary people who have to go to work and pack lunchboxes for our children. The gangs are ready to use violence and kill people in order to protect their income and territories.”
The showdown between residents and drug dealers in Christiania is a consequence of a Danish, and European, drug market that is growing larger and more violent. It also marks a turning point for one of Europe’s most radical and enduring social experiments, which has survived at odds with the law since its founding in 1971, when a band of hippies occupied an abandoned military barrack and established an anticapitalist haven. “We need a moment of truth,” a resident involved in Tuesday’s operation said. “We have gone from being a role model of green energy, art, culture and LGBTQ rights to spending all our community meetings discussing violent episodes in Pusher Street.”
Christiania’s early cannabis trade was driven by hippies transporting drugs from Asia to Copenhagen in beat-up Volkswagen vans. Today, about $150 million of cannabis flows each year through roughly 30 plywood stalls crammed into the 100-yard cobble-stoned pedestrian strip that is Pusher Street. It comprises about two-thirds of Denmark’s total cannabis economy, said Kim Møller, associate professor of criminology at Malmö University in Sweden and expert on Christiania.
In the end, the predawn operation ensured that no drug dealers confronted the activists as they moved around Christiania, guiding the shipping containers into place in the dark. While younger participants trashed cannabis stalls, middle-aged residents spray-painted the containers: “Pusher Street is closed.”
BY SUNE ENGEL RASMUSSEN
COPENHAGEN—For 50 years, Christiania, an anarchic, free-spirited commune in Denmark’s capital, has gained global fame for its open-air cannabis market, attracting visitors from across the world, along with hardened criminals and regular police crackdowns.
Now a group of residents has risen up against the gangs that have taken control of the trade, in a risky, clandestine operation aimed at shutting down the famed Pusher Street. In recent years, organized criminals have pushed out most of Christiania’s residents from the lucrative cannabis trade, souring one of Northern Europe’s biggest tourist attractions and a symbol of Danish tolerance. After a spate of violent incidents, including several killings, many residents have had enough. Before dawn on Tuesday, about 50 Christianites—as residents of the commune are called—gathered to watch the cranes they ordered use shipping containers and concrete walls to block off entrances into Pusher Street, hours before drug dealers would arrive to begin the day’s business. “This action is taken in the hope of freeing Christiania from the tyranny of gangs and hard-core criminals,” the activists said, adding that they did so at great risk to their own safety. “We are ordinary people who have to go to work and pack lunchboxes for our children. The gangs are ready to use violence and kill people in order to protect their income and territories.”
The showdown between residents and drug dealers in Christiania is a consequence of a Danish, and European, drug market that is growing larger and more violent. It also marks a turning point for one of Europe’s most radical and enduring social experiments, which has survived at odds with the law since its founding in 1971, when a band of hippies occupied an abandoned military barrack and established an anticapitalist haven. “We need a moment of truth,” a resident involved in Tuesday’s operation said. “We have gone from being a role model of green energy, art, culture and LGBTQ rights to spending all our community meetings discussing violent episodes in Pusher Street.”
Christiania’s early cannabis trade was driven by hippies transporting drugs from Asia to Copenhagen in beat-up Volkswagen vans. Today, about $150 million of cannabis flows each year through roughly 30 plywood stalls crammed into the 100-yard cobble-stoned pedestrian strip that is Pusher Street. It comprises about two-thirds of Denmark’s total cannabis economy, said Kim Møller, associate professor of criminology at Malmö University in Sweden and expert on Christiania.
In the end, the predawn operation ensured that no drug dealers confronted the activists as they moved around Christiania, guiding the shipping containers into place in the dark. While younger participants trashed cannabis stalls, middle-aged residents spray-painted the containers: “Pusher Street is closed.”
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So this pub was sold to a property firm that owns the adjacent land. It was set on fire a week after the sale was completed with the only road access blocked off by a huge mound of earth and then promptly demolished a couple of days later by the new owner against the council's instructions.
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The Crooked House: Mystery and anger surround wonky pub destruction
Mystery surrounding the destruction of The Crooked House in the West Midlands has prompted a sense of anger and grief, and not only in the local community.Many stories have emerged, sharing sometimes very personal connections with what was once dubbed the UK's "wonkiest" pub.
"I think it was the only pub in the world, when you walk out, you feel more sober," customer Matt Wright said.
A week ago, having recently been sold to new owners, it stood proud, if at an angle that made you question its durability.
But on Saturday, a fire, later to be treated by police as arson, left it an empty shell, only for the remains to be mysteriously demolished less than 48 hours later.
"It is like losing someone in your family. It's still the lack of belief it has really gone," Mr Wright said.
"It was like the beating heart of the Dudley community. It didn't matter where you went, when you told people you were from Dudley, a lot of people would mention The Crooked House."
The 45-year-old has become part of a Facebook group campaigning to rebuild it, which has seen its numbers swell to more than 13,000.
How the pub got its stoop is the stuff of Black Country legend.
The building itself dates back to the 18th Century when, in 1765, it was built as a farmhouse. In about 1830 it was converted into a pub and named the Glynne Arms, after the landowner at the time, Sir Stephen Glynne.
The "crooked-ness" began in the middle of the 19th Century when, due to mining work in the area, the building began to subside on one side.
The lean was about 15 degrees and it would have collapsed but for the addition of buttresses to support one side, the Lower Gornal local history group said.
It was then known by locals in the area as the "siden house" or "sidin" (side-in) as an expression in the area for crooked, the group added.
The pub was condemned in the 1940s and would have been demolished but instead the buttresses on the south side were further strengthened.
It's not clear how gradual the subsidence was or why the decision was first made to support the structure, rather than demolish it, Colin Morris, from the local history group, said.
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But to many in the Black Country, it was so much more.
"It was Dudley's Leaning Tower of Pisa for a long time," local author Miranda Dickson said.
She said she regularly visited The Crooked House from her childhood and added it was "part of our local psyche".
"It was a very strange place to drink in, you didn't want to be having a few drinks and then sitting there because already the room was spinning," she said.
When the BBC's Nationwide programme visited in September 1974, much was made of how bottles and other objects appeared to defy gravity by seeming to roll uphill.
Since then, many have said they have tried the same trick with marbles, including Cora Barras who, on a visit from Northern Ireland with her daughter, said "the thrill of trying to figure out" what was going on was "such fun".
Georgia Witton said a university friend made a special request to go the pub and roll a marble up the bar during a visit.
"I just remember the magic of it - the fact it was wonky, people would talk about it and you'd see it really was like that," she said.
The place was so unique, Sara Howes and her husband Mic could not think of a better place to celebrate their wedding in September 2021.
"We chose there as it was quirky and matched our aesthetic," she said.
But as well as talking of the magic of the place, feelings quickly turn to anger at The Crooked House's destruction.
"I feel angry - I don't understand how it was able to happen," Mrs Howes said.
Kel Cunningham, who regularly visited the Crooked House on trips back to the area said she almost "burst with pride" to take her husband there in December.
"I am devastated, it's like mourning the loss of a family member - she won't ever be the same," she said.
There has been talk, including from the mayor of the West Midlands, of rebuilding the pub, although others have questioned whether that would even be possible.
It's a move Mrs Dickinson would support, although "it would not be the same building" she said.
"It's such an important part of all of our childhoods here," she added.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-birmingham-66465558
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Baghdad advertising boards turned off over porn screening
Iraqi officials have ordered all electronic advertising screens to be shut down in Baghdad after a hacker used one to show a pornographic film.It happened at a major road junction in the Iraqi capital. Videos have been shared widely on social media.
A man has been arrested in connection with the incident, police say.
A statement said the suspect was a technician who had financial issues with the company that runs the advertising screens.
He was said to have acted in retaliation.
The hacker "showed a pornographic film for several minutes before we cut the power cable" on Saturday, a security source who requested anonymity told the AFP news agency.
These "immoral scenes" prompted the authorities to "turn off all advertising screens in Baghdad" while they review security measures, the same official explained.
Screens in the capital - which are generally used to advertise products or politicians - were switched off on Sunday morning.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-66563678
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Live worm found in Australian woman's brain in world first
In a world first, scientists say an 8cm (3in) worm has been found alive in the brain of an Australian woman.The "string-like structure" was pulled from the patient's damaged frontal lobe during surgery in Canberra last year.
"It was definitely not what we were expecting. Everyone was shocked," said operating surgeon Dr Hari Priya Bandi.
The woman, 64, had for months suffered symptoms like stomach pain, a cough and night sweats, which evolved into forgetfulness and depression.
She was admitted to hospital in late January 2021, and a scan later revealed "an atypical lesion within the right frontal lobe of the brain".
But the cause of her condition was only revealed by Dr Bandi's knife during a biopsy in June 2022.
The red parasite could have been alive in her brain for up to two months, doctors said.
The woman, who lived near a lake area in south-eastern New South Wales state, is recovering well.
Her case is believed to be the first instance of a larvae invasion and development in the human brain, researchers said in the Emerging Infectious Diseases journal which reported the case.
'I pulled it out... and it was happily moving'
The neurosurgeon who found the worm said she had only begun to touch the brain part that had shown up strangely in the scans when she felt it."I thought, gosh, that feels funny, you couldn't see anything more abnormal," said Dr Bandi.
"And then I was able to really feel something, and I took my tweezers and I pulled it out and I thought, 'Gosh! What is that? It's moving!"
"Everyone was shocked. And the worm that we found was happily moving, quite vigorously, outside the brain," she said.
She then consulted her colleague Sanjaya Senanayake, an infectious diseases expert, on what they should do.
"Everyone [in] that operating theatre got the shock of their life when [the surgeon] took some forceps to pick up an abnormality and the abnormality turned out to be a wriggling, live 8cm light red worm," said Dr Senanayake.
"Even if you take away the yuck factor, this is a new infection never documented before in a human being."
Researchers warn the case highlights the increased danger of diseases and infections being passed from animals to people.
The Ophidascaris robertsi roundworm is common in carpet pythons - non-venomous snakes found across much of Australia.
Scientists say the woman most likely caught the roundworm after collecting a type of native grass, Warrigal greens, beside a lake near where she lived. The area is also inhabited by carpet pythons.
Writing in the journal, Australian parasitology expert Mehrab Hossain said she suspected the woman became an "accidental host" after using the foraged plants - contaminated by python faeces and parasite eggs - for cooking.
"The invasion of the brain by Ophidascaris larvae had not been reported previously," writes Dr Hossain.
"The growth of the third-stage larva in the human host is notable, given that previous experimental studies have not demonstrated larval development in domesticated animals, such as sheep, dogs, and cats."
Dr Senanayake - who is also an associate professor of medicine at the Australian National University (ANU) - told the BBC the case is a warning.
The ANU team reports that 30 new types of infections have appeared in the last 30 years. Three-quarters are zoonotic - infectious diseases that have jumped from animals to humans.
"It just shows as a human population burgeons, we move closer and encroach on animal habitats. This is an issue we see again and again, whether it's Nipah virus that's gone from wild bats to domestic pigs and then into people, whether it's a coronavirus like Sars or Mers that has jumped from bats into possibly a secondary animal and then into humans."
"Even though Covid is now slowly petering away, it is really important for epidemiologists… and governments to make sure they've got good infectious diseases surveillance around."
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-66643241
Elon Musk's 77-Year-Old Dad Says He's Asked To Donate His Sperm: 'Why Go To Elon When They Can Go To The Actual Person Who Created Elon?'
Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk's father recently said he was approached by an undisclosed South American company with an unusual proposition. The company expressed interest in him donating sperm to facilitate the creation of people who share genetic traits with his famous son, the 77-year-old told The...
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might not be current but this is the closest book cover to the movie ı once saw , blue eyes in indigenous people , thanks to Josef Mengele . And what comes next is among the results to a query of Mengele in Colombia
adolf Schuttlemayer and a guy who volunteered to be a CIA informant in around June 1954 , before the mustache guy fled to Argentina . This is of course a bait . Which found no takers and stuff .
people are supposedly like "what" with regards to my posts . Accordingly , the Musk guy will not fight in a cage (because they could sue each other to the cost of billions) . So , we are now to believe the first is unworkable so they want another person , worthy of similar adulation . And no cloning ! Because Musk has lived fast and ruined himself , right ?
might not be current but this is the closest book cover to the movie ı once saw , blue eyes in indigenous people , thanks to Josef Mengele . And what comes next is among the results to a query of Mengele in Colombia
adolf Schuttlemayer and a guy who volunteered to be a CIA informant in around June 1954 , before the mustache guy fled to Argentina . This is of course a bait . Which found no takers and stuff .
people are supposedly like "what" with regards to my posts . Accordingly , the Musk guy will not fight in a cage (because they could sue each other to the cost of billions) . So , we are now to believe the first is unworkable so they want another person , worthy of similar adulation . And no cloning ! Because Musk has lived fast and ruined himself , right ?
“Two people have been charged in an alleged murder plot after a mother tried to hire a hitman online to kill her 3-year-old son using a parody website, according to court records from Florida.
Jazmin Paez, 18, was arrested July 18 after she submitted a request on rentahitman. com to kill her son, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.
While she was trying to hire a hitman, Paez submitted an address and a picture of her son, the affidavit says. She also provided a safe word for the potential contracted killer, which was “Put me in coach,” the affidavit says.”
https://news.yahoo.com/florida-mom-accused-trying-hire-014235993.html
Jazmin Paez, 18, was arrested July 18 after she submitted a request on rentahitman. com to kill her son, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.
While she was trying to hire a hitman, Paez submitted an address and a picture of her son, the affidavit says. She also provided a safe word for the potential contracted killer, which was “Put me in coach,” the affidavit says.”
https://news.yahoo.com/florida-mom-accused-trying-hire-014235993.html
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