https://www.pennlive.com/news/2018/07/couple_high_on_bath_salts_thou.html

A couple high on suspected bath salts who thought fireflies were green lasers from aliens are accused of breaking into two homes in Clinton County last weekend, state police say.

Katherine McCloskey, 22, and Jesse Shields, 30, both of Mill Hall, told police they spent Friday night driving a pickup truck around the Loganton area of Clinton County, and after dark they started seeing green lights similar to fireflies. McCloskey told police they knew they were not lightning bugs because they were blinking twice.

 

Do "bath salts" have any redeeming medical usage at all? I haven't heard of any. Just a way of making the stupid stupider.

 

Do "bath salts" have any redeeming medical usage at all? I haven't heard of any. Just a way of making the stupid stupider.

Bath salts are one of the unintended consequences of the War on Drugs.

They're proof that you can't use the law to keep those determined from killing themselves.

 

Bath salts are one of the unintended consequences of the War on Drugs.

My friends and family are probably sick of me spouting my Law of Unintended Consequences.

I don't have a formal statement of my law yet, but the essence is that the UCs of government policies are usually (always?) more important than the laws/policies themselves, and are usually (again, always?) negative.

It follows naturally from Wayne's Law of Unintended Consequences that the very notion of passing a new, untested law and thinking you will get away unscathed is an act of hubris. Only the most arrogant among us - politicians - think they can be more clever than the forces of nature.

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44729770

The US Postal Service has been ordered to pay $3.5m (£2.6m) for copyright infringement after mistakenly using the wrong Statue of Liberty on a stamp.

The Postal Service used the image of sculptor Robert Davidson's Las Vegas replica on a 2010 stamp design instead of the New York original.

https://ecf.cofc.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2013cv0942-136-0

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44729770


https://ecf.cofc.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2013cv0942-136-0

... How can there be a copyright infringement done on a replica of something?

 

... How can there be a copyright infringement done on a replica of something?

Apparently if you screw it up just enough, it's no longer a replica but an "original" worthy of copyright. I'm not sure I would agree but lawyers say there is precedent.

 

http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/a-teenager-got-a-usb-cable-stuck-in-his-penis/

A 13-year-old boy from China was “curious” about his genitalia and, for some reason, decided that the best way to satisfy his curiosity would be to slowly insert a phone charger through his urethral orifice. He managed to insert 20 centimeters (7.8 inches) of it into his urethra.

 

Apparently if you screw it up just enough, it's no longer a replica but an "original" worthy of copyright. I'm not sure I would agree but lawyers say there is precedent.

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Is this nuked image of the Statue of Liberty worthy of copyright?

 

Is this nuked image of the Statue of Liberty worthy of copyright?

Not anymore, but it was when new.

 

Hidden rooms?

 

PUT... THE CANDLE... BACK.

 

https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article214576365.html

A North Carolina woman was charged with assault over the weekend after allegedly biting her boyfriend repeatedly for changing the TV channel without permission, reports Fox News WGHP.

 

This is why you can't pump your own gas in Oregon.
https://myfox8.com/2018/07/10/40000...lames-after-minivan-rips-off-gas-pump-nozzle/

$400,000 Lamborghini Huracan goes up in flames after minivan rips off gas pump nozzle

 

Truly tasteless publicity:

http://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/2...hok-vodka-named-after-deadly-nerve-agent.html

A gin distillery based in Bristol, England, has apologized after naming its new vodka offering after the toxic nerve agent Novichok, which is thought to be responsible for leaving one woman dead and another man in critical condition in Wiltshire county.

 

We will follow you to your grave (and beyond if we have to) to collect what's owed to us!:

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44783779

It said that Mrs Durdle owed the company about £3,200 and went on to say: "You are in breach of condition 15.4(c) of your agreement with PayPal Credit as we have received notice that you are deceased... this breach is not capable of remedy."

 

La Raccourcisseuse Patriotique

https://www.expatica.com/fr/news/country-news/France-auction-history-crime-guillotine_1973648.html

 

https://www.foxbusiness.com/features/this-honda-lawn-mower-will-go-150-mph

 

Avozilla

http://abc7news.com/food/sink-your-...-4-pound-avocado-as-big-as-your-face/3763290/

 

http://www.kcra.com/article/sacramento-co-sheriffs-deputies-chase-stolen-fire-engine/22149028
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime...long-chase-in-california/ar-AAA6f1u?ocid=iehp