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In summary, a man who used to be a Fox News guest analyst and claimed to be a CIA agent was sentenced to 33 months in prison for lying about his security clearance, criminal history, and finances.
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Crispy? Mojave Desert solar plant kills 6,000 birds a year.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/756d24c1-628d-33a7-a3ff-81e0081ee1ae/this-mojave-desert-solar.html

One can see birds falling in wisps of smoke. ?:)
 
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Astronuc said:
Crispy? Mojave Desert solar plant kills 6,000 birds a year.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/756d24c1-628d-33a7-a3ff-81e0081ee1ae/this-mojave-desert-solar.html

One can see birds falling in wisps of smoke. ?:)
That's so terrible! :-(
 
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Local news, a report about a children's event "Farewell to summer holiday"

quote: "The event was so joyful that it was actually sad"
 
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Not sure if this counts as "news", but this sure struck me as weird:

'We need human interaction': meet the LA man who walks people for a living [The Guardian]

Chuck McCarthy recently auditioned as a homicidal biker for a TV show, but the actor is finding glimmers of fame, and possibly a business franchise, with another role: Los Angeles’s first people walker.

He walks humans for $7 a mile around the streets and park near his home, pioneering an alternative to dog walking that requires no leash, just an ability to walk, talk and, above all, listen.
...
 
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OmCheeto said:
Not sure if this counts as "news", but this sure struck me as weird:
That isn't weird at all at least in my area.
 
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jtbell said:
The world's oldest man is about to have his bar mitzvah at age 113. Better late than never!

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-37375629
And I always thought it's mainly because of the gifts ...

"Albert Nimzicki: [Levinson has invited him to pray] I'm not Jewish.
Julius Levinson: Nobody's perfect."
(Independence Day, 1996)
 
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Headline says "weird." So.
cleantechnica.com said:
The one weird trick?
Focus no more than 4 mirrors on anyone place in the air during standby. (When the focal point is the receiver – no dead birds. The potential danger is only during standby.)

“We have had zero bird fatalities since we implemented this solution in January, despite being in the standby position as well as flux on the receiver for most days since then,” he said. “This change appears to have fully corrected the problem.”

Since January’s mishap that delivered the Eureka moment for safe solar power tower development, no more dead birds at all. I did the math as of our conversation this week; a day or so short of 3 months with zero fatalities.

https://cleantechnica.com/2015/04/16/one-weird-trick-prevents-bird-deaths-solar-towers/
 
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Loose moon balloon in Fuzhou, China
Not so weird, but more like bizarre.
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Russians Marvel at Anti-Corruption Cop’s $131 Million Cash Pile
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/russians-marvel-anti-corruption-cop-155910331.html
Russia’s Investigative Committee posted a http://hsrd.yahoo.com/RV=1/RE=1475208371/RH=aHNyZC55YWhvby5jb20-/RB=/RU=aHR0cDovL3NsZWRjb20ucnUvdXBsb2FkL3NpdGUxL2RvY3VtZW50X25ld3MvRGVuZ2lfWmFoYXJjaGVua28tOTI2eDY5Ni5qcGcA/RS=%5EADApwxw.OFpaUDO3jTgFNxPS4TBsTM- of stacks of bills inside a safe after it seized 8.5 billion rubles ($131 million) in cash from a Moscow apartment. It said the money came from an apartment of Dmitry Zakharchenko, a police colonel who heads an anti-corruption unit within the Interior Ministry, providing an eye-opening example for Russians of the scale of alleged graft within the government system.
 
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A new road in my area
(Can't upload a picture, I'll try later)
 
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Nothing is impossible with vodka.
https://www.rt.com/viral/360631-russian-teen-survives-fall/
All of this happened in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk at around 5pm local time. The teenager tried to impress the girl that was with him in the apartment. According to the police report, he climbed over the balcony fencing and swung off the handrails. His grip slipped and he fell.

The teenager landed on a parked Renault Logan that allegedly softened the blow. He was quickly transferred to a nearby emergency care facility.
 
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Borg said:
I'm sure that he left quite an impression on her (and the car).

She made an impression on him in this one

Nothing is impossible with vodka.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/weird/drunk-survives-five-storey-fall-twice/story-e6frev20-1225697113693
"I have no idea why I jumped the first time but when I came back up and I heard my wife screaming angrily at me I thought it was best if I left the room again - out of the window."
 
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http://offbeatoregon.com/H1006d_BiliousPills.html
As Lewis and Clark’s Corps of Discovery worked its way across North America to Oregon’s Fort Clatsop, it left something behind that would prove invaluable to future historians:

Laxatives.
 
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Borg said:
I'm guessing that inertia and basic aerodynamics isn't their strong suit. :wideeyed:

Woman riding mattress on top of van in Virginia falls to her death
Oh dear. This is going to be a long, long list. I always wonder how few people know about basic physics or basic biology. Since autumn is already here, we will probably read more in the news about friction, angular velocity, all types of collision and some optics relating to a low sun and earlier darkness.

<I beg all southerner a pardon>
 
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Groom killed the bride day before their wedding

26yo Alexandra, a lawyer and her 27yo fiancé Marek, a policeman, planned their wedding on October 1st.
However, the evening before they started arguing about the wedding cake and gradually the groom's cheating was revealed. Alexandra decided to cancel the wedding. Marek lost his temper, stabbed her with a knife, wrapped her body in a sheet and burned it in the local forest.
The police immediately found evidence against their colleague and he confessed.
 
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102-Year-Old Woman Gets Arrested, Fulfilling Bucket List Wish
https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/d437a90b-873f-3ec4-96d8-a97b66e64928/ss_102-year-old-woman-gets.html

Edie Simms, a 102-year-old Missouri woman, was handcuffed and placed in the back of a police cruiser Friday as officers helped her fulfill an unusual bucket list wish: getting arrested. Simms was seen being cheerfully escorted to St. Louis’ Five Star Senior Center with accompanying St. Louis police officers that said they couldn’t be happier to help, KPLR reported.
Ok, that's . . . o_O
 
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This is preposterous!

Well, the headline is the only funny thing. I translated some of it with Google Translate (not all, this is hard to write) and it looks like a well analysed issue.
 
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Woman goes to ER for 'kidney stones', leaves with a son.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/woman-gives-birth-surprise-baby-181600705.html

I've heard that it's common to find out about a pregnancy later than normal and up to the 2nd trimester because some women do have bleeding events that coincide with the menstrual period. But usually, it's caught far before labor. How someone couldn't feel the 'party' going on in their womb for the last months is beyond me! My daughter sometimes kicked me so hard in third trimester it would move my shirt (I have it on a few videos)! I remember trying to incite her to move around and play back with me. A baby moving around was a very distinct feeling and seems to me it would be hard to miss, especially it not being her first- there is nothing else like it! They both look healthy and happy about it! Weird, but good outcome for everybody.
 
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Falls are very dangerous :oldlaugh:.
 
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Psinter said:
Falls are very dangerous :oldlaugh:.
And I extra told the mayor last week that the curbs there were too high.
 
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