And now for something weird...

nsaspook

Joined Aug 27, 2009
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https://www.kptv.com/2024/09/26/couple-allegedly-tried-sell-their-baby-1000-beer/
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According to an affidavit, the baby had been given to a man at the campground who asked if he could “have the baby overnight” in exchange for a six-pack of beer. The man, who appeared “heavily intoxicated” when he spoke to authorities, said that he was concerned about the welfare of the baby.

Ehlers allegedly told the man and another person that “it was not working having three dogs and a baby” and said she would surrender the baby for $1,000.
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cmartinez

Joined Jan 17, 2007
8,780

In ancient times, dairy or animal fat was buried in bogs for preservation or put in a wooden container as an offering to gods or spirits, according to The Irish News.
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"It does taste like butter, an unsalted butter at that. I had a sliver, and I’m still here to tell the tale," Harvey said of the find, according to The Irish News. Historians say that the ancient bog butter could date back to the Bronze Age, according to the Irish Examiner, but more research is being done at the National Museum of Ireland.
 

WBahn

Joined Mar 31, 2012
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Good Lord .. I feel for the poor woman. May she find peace away from that POS of a company. Rest in peace.
Just what "more" is the company supposed to do?

Hire people to go around and do "wellness checks" of every office several time a day, every day, including weekends and holidays?

Most jobs I have had this could have easily happened to me -- and that was before the remote-work craze. Dying in your office on a Friday and nobody notices that you didn't leave? What's so hard to believe about that? Not noticing that someone was dead in their office on Saturday and Sunday when hardly anyone was in the building? What's so hard to believe about that? Not having anyone notice that you didn't come in on Monday and weren't around all day on Monday, when a large fraction of the people working there work remotely much of the time and therefore routinely aren't there on a given day? Doesn't seem like much of a stretch.

When I was working as a researcher at the Air Force Academy, I worked in a set of rooms where I was often the only person there for days, even weeks, at a time. I might go well over a week without interacting with anyone else because I had things I was busy with and so did they. I was in a different part of the building from my department, so when I came and went I seldom passed people I knew or that knew me. Had I had a heart attack and died, it is likely that I wouldn't have been found until the stench got so bad as to force someone to make the effort to track it down.
 

joeyd999

Joined Jun 6, 2011
6,323
How weird is life, the universe, and everything?

Perusing YouTube, this popped up:


I (literally!) spent my childhood summers playing in that church, sleeping in that house, and running around on that farm.

No joke.
 

joeyd999

Joined Jun 6, 2011
6,323
https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/redbox-vending-machine-kiosk-dvd-movies-4e285ee8
Bankruptcy Took Down the Redbox Machine. If Only Someone Could Take Them Away.
The DVD vending machine pioneer is out of business, sticking Walgreens, Walmart and other merchants with 24,000 abandoned big red machines
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/com...only-someone-could-take-them-away/ar-AA1s1XTc
Want a Redbox?
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Someone should pick them all up and start a Blockbuster Video.
 
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