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Police pull over car with huge bull in passenger seat
Police in Norfolk, Nebraska pulled over a car for having a huge bull standing in its passenger seat.The car had half of its roof cut off in order to fit the animal.
The man driving the car was given a warning by police, and was ordered to take the bull back home. No-one was injured in the process.
News Channel Nebraska overheard on a police scanner that officers would be attending the scene, so rushed out to capture the moment on camera.
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-66668411
The cops pulled him over to shake his hand right? 
Sadly, most cows appear to be dehorned while young.
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Sadly, most cows appear to be dehorned while young.
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Probably gave the bull a ticket for not wearing his seatbelt 
If they arrested him, I'd like the mugshot on a T-shirt.
If they arrested him, I'd like the mugshot on a T-shirt.
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Florida man arrested after trying to cross Atlantic in hamster wheel vessel
A Florida man was arrested after trying to "run to London" across the Atlantic Ocean in a homemade, human-powered hamster wheel-type vessel.
The US Coast Guard intercepted Reza Baluchi about 70 miles (110km) off Tybee Island, Georgia on 26 August.
Officials said the 44-year-old marathon runner refused to leave the vessel for days and threatened to kill himself.
Mr Baluchi has tried three similar voyages before, all of which ended in Coast Guard intervention.
The makeshift contraption he was using is shaped as a wheel, with paddles that are designed to propel it forward as the wheel revolves.
"Based on the condition of the vessel - which was afloat as a result of wiring and buoys - [US Coast Guard] officers determined Baluchi was conducting a manifestly unsafe voyage," the criminal complaint says.
Mr Baluchi's voyage began as officials were preparing for the arrival of a major hurricane.
But he refused to leave the vessel for three days and threatened to kill himself with a 12-inch knife. He also claimed that he had a bomb on board, according to court papers.
On 1 September, he eventually surrendered and abandoned his vessel after being brought to a Coast Guard base in Miami.
Officials later determined that the "bomb" had been fake.
He is now facing federal charges of obstruction of a boarding, and violation of a Captain of the Port order.
It is unclear whether he has obtained a lawyer to represent him in his criminal case.
This was not Mr Baluchi's first arrest for taking to the ocean in his vessel, which he calls a "bubble".
In 2021, he was arrested after being rescued while trying to ride from Florida to New York after drifting 30 miles south of his departure point.
In 2014, he had to be rescued from a similar contraption near St Augustine, and then two years later he again had to be rescued off the coast of Jupiter, near Palm Beach in Florida.
According to previous interviews, Mr Baluchi said he was attempting the voyages to raise money for a variety of causes, including for the homeless and the Coast Guard.
"My goal is to not only raise money for homeless people, raise money for the Coast Guard, raise money for the police department, raise money for the fire department," he told WOFL-TV in Orlando in 2021.
"They are in public service, they do it for safety, and they help other people."
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66733230
This is the plot of Roald Dahl's My Uncle Oswald, dangit.
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...finance.yahoo.com
The world's hottest chip that costs $5 and comes in a coffin is being pulled off the shelves after a 14 year-old kid named Harris Wolobah ate one and actually died.
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Very shocking as it has been around for years.
"One Chip Challenge" maker Paqui pulls product from store shelves after Worcester teen's death
Paqui, the makers of the "One Chip Challenge," announced on Thursday they are removing the spicy tortilla chip from shelves.
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Very shocking as it has been around for years.
“At the Armory Show, an Artist Is Selling a Collection of All the Underwear Men Have Left in His House for $50,000”
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this was or maybe still is at a New Zealand airport cafetaria . Am pretty certain his privates would not be on display of it was country .
edit: Even weirder is the feeling that ı really wrote "on display if it was my country" . Does the auto-correct have special biases against me or whatever or it happens to anyone ?
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Elon steals logo of Scottish amateur football club (based 16 miles from where I used to live).
https://www.eastlothiancourier.com/...dington-town-stunned-find-badge-similarities/
https://www.eastlothiancourier.com/...dington-town-stunned-find-badge-similarities/
For anyone in South Carolina tonight, please be on the lookout for a crashed F-35 fighter jet.
If you find it, please call the military.
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No Apple Airtag onboard I guess.
If you find it, please call the military.
US Air Force asks if anyone has seen missing F-35 fighter jet after pilot ejects
Officials have asked the public for help in a hunt for a missing F-35 fighter jet after the Marine pilot ejected while flying over South Carolina
No Apple Airtag onboard I guess.
Nice name for a baby!
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Google accused of directing motorist to drive off collapsed bridge
The family of a US man who drowned after driving off a collapsed bridge are claiming that he died because Google failed to update its maps.Philip Paxson's family are suing the company over his death, alleging that Google negligently failed to show the bridge had fallen nine years earlier.
Mr Paxson died in September 2022 after attempting to drive over the damaged bridge in Hickory, North Carolina.
A spokesperson for Google said the company was reviewing the allegations.
The case was filed in civil court in Wake County on Tuesday.
Mr Paxson, a father of two, was driving home from his daughter's ninth birthday party at a friend's house and was in an unfamiliar neighbourhood at the time of his death, according to the family's lawsuit.
His wife had driven his two daughters home earlier, and he stayed behind to help clean up.
"Unfamiliar with local roads, he relied on Google Maps, expecting it would safely direct him home to his wife and daughters," lawyers for the family said in a statement announcing the lawsuit.
"Tragically, as he drove cautiously in the darkness and rain, he unsuspectingly followed Google's outdated directions to what his family later learned for nearly a decade was called the 'Bridge to Nowhere,' crashing into Snow Creek, where he drowned."
Local residents had repeatedly contacted Google to have them change their online maps after the bridge collapsed in 2013, the suit claims.
Barriers that were normally placed across the bridge entrance were missing due to vandalism, according to the Charlotte Observer.
The lawsuit is also suing three local companies, arguing they had a duty to maintain the bridge.
"Our girls ask how and why their daddy died, and I'm at a loss for words they can understand because, as an adult, I still can't understand how those responsible for the GPS directions and the bridge could have acted with so little regard for human life," his wife, Alicia Paxson, said in a statement.
"We have the deepest sympathies for the Paxson family," a spokesman for Google told AP News.
"Our goal is to provide accurate routing information in Maps and we are reviewing this lawsuit."
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66873982
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