And now for something weird...

nsaspook

Joined Aug 27, 2009
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https://www.stripes.com/news/europe/soldier-charged-in-humvees-free-fall-1.476690#.WV1sZ1QrK2w
VICENZA, Italy — A sergeant with the 173rd Airborne Brigade has been charged in connection with the spectacular destruction of three Humvees that plummeted to the ground from a C-130 during a parachute drop in Germany last year.

Sgt. John Skipper was charged with destruction of government property and making a false official statement, brigade spokesman Maj. Juan Martinez said Tuesday.
NSFW language.
 

nsaspook

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Florida

https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdfl/p...-repay-1574314-social-security-administration
Tampa, FL – Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces that the Estate of Allan Dunn agreed to the sale of assets, from which the government was paid $15,743.14, to resolve allegations that Mr. Dunn failed to report the death of his wife and thereafter improperly collected her Social Security benefits.

Allan Dunn and his wife, Margaret Dunn, resided together in Sun City Center until Mrs. Dunn passed away at home in 2002. Mr. Dunn concealed his wife’s death by placing her body in a freezer in their home. He then collected her Social Security benefits until his own death in 2010. In all, he improperly collected $92,088 in federal benefits. Following Mr. Dunn’s death, authorities discovered that Mrs. Dunn had died eight years earlier.
 

atferrari

Joined Jan 6, 2004
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That's a layer that I only know too well in my poor, contaminated city... :(
Not a layer like that precisely but the smog cloud all over Buenos Aires was painfully easy to sea when approaching the city through the River Plate.

Most of it became history when (50 years ago?) garbage incinerators (every building had one) were prohibited. Even soot stopped staining terraces and buildings.
 

nsaspook

Joined Aug 27, 2009
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Not a layer like that precisely but the smog cloud all over Buenos Aires was painfully easy to sea when approaching the city through the River Plate.

Most of it became history when (50 years ago?) garbage incinerators (every building had one) were prohibited. Even soot stopped staining terraces and buildings.
LA/Long Beach had the dirtiest air on the planet in the 70's. We could the see the brown air at sea before we saw the city.


Part of the problem is just location and weather patterns.
http://gizmodo.com/why-air-pollution-has-always-been-a-problem-in-l-a-an-1572151647
A blanket of haze hung over the land that would become Los Angeles on October 8, 1542, when Spanish sailors entered San Pedro (or perhaps Santa Monica) Bay and made the first written observations of the Southland. This early air pollution so impressed the the sailors and their captain, Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, that they named the area "Baya de los Fumos, or "Bay of the Smokes." (The name, sadly, did not stick.)
 
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cmartinez

Joined Jan 17, 2007
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The police report did not mention which side of the "Star Trek" vs. "Star Wars" debate each of the men argued.

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment...rgument-ends-assault-arrest/story?id=48501161

"At this point, the victim was fearing for his life and he reached for a pocket knife on his night stand," the report said.

Whyte, who allegedly fled the room after he was cut by the knife, according to the report, was later deemed the aggressor in the fight and booked on assault.
 

nsaspook

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nsaspook

Joined Aug 27, 2009
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I've done worse.
One night I slept in a car wash because a heavy snow was coming down. I had to lay down a ladder and unroll my sleeping bag on top of it to stay above the water running across the floor.:(
Or you could pay $250,000 for a dump.

http://www.oregonlive.com/hg/index.ssf/2017/07/reddit_pdx_concrete_shed_250k.html



Commenters remember it used to be a biker gang hangout in the 1990s and a "clubhouse of hoodrats and rapscallions in the naughty aughties." That memory prompted "susiederkinsisgross" to add: "Some scallywags used to be there too, be honest."
 
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