Oops!

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220429-paris-suspends-electric-bus-fleet-after-fires

Following a second blaze on Friday morning, in which no one was hurt, "RATP has taken the decision to suspend use of 149 electric buses" of manufacturer Bollore's Bluebus 5SE model, the state-owned company said.

The number 71 bus that caught fire in southeast Paris early Friday released thick clouds of black smoke and a strong smell of burning plastic, according to an AFP journalist on the scene.

"The bus driver immediately evacuated all the passengers. Nobody was hurt," RATP said, while the city fire service said the blaze was put out by around 30 firefighters.

A first bus caught fire on the upscale Boulevard Saint-Germain in central Paris on April 4, destroying the vehicle but again causing no injuries.

Wow! That was fast from the initial smoke to total fireworks of burning metal. With a high power battery destruction there seems to few limits to the speed of conflagration to Deflagration like with liquid fuels that require a specific range of vapor pressures for burning or explosion.

 

That is a beast!

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crim...er-defunding-the-police/ar-AAY8Lzz?ocid=ientp

Seattle is refunding roughly 100,000 parking tickets worth approximately $5 million total after transferring parking enforcement duties from police to civilian parking enforcement officers in the fall of 2021, finding that the civilian officers lacked the legal authority to write the tickets, according to The Seattle Times. Parking officers also conducted more than 10,000 car tows and impounded 1,700 cars without the proper authority during this period.
“What’s going to happen here is that we’re going to get sued, I can guarantee it,” said Chuck Labertew, president of Lincoln Towing, which has the sole contract for city-initiated towing, according to The Seattle Times. “And I’m going to forward every one of those lawsuits on over to the city.”
The decision to remove this responsibility from police was part of a push in 2020 to reduce police funding and have civilians take on jobs typically handled by police, according to The Seattle Times. The City Council cut the police budget by 17% in 2020, far short of its 50% goal.
The cost of the city’s mistake may not be limited to the $5 million in refunded tickets: people will likely contest the tows and impounds authorized by the non-police parking authority, Labertew told The Seattle Times, but the city will not refund those tows automatically.

 

 

I'd rather see the bridge collisions.

 

 

 

The adventures of Florida man, with money. Here, hold my boat while I drink a beer.

 

 

A Final Destination type crash.

They found the suspect driving away loaded with pool cleaning supplies in the back of a pick-up truck. They attempted to stop him. The driver fled from Vista into Oceanside at a high rate of speed. The driver lost control at the above intersection and went head-on into a traffic light. Deputies attempted to pull the man out of the truck, but the chemicals had spilled causing a dangerous muriatic gas cloud.

 

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/19/holiday-weekend-sees-massive-amount-of-flight-cancellations.html

 

 

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1539410957914578946

 

A 9,000 passenger cruise will make its maiden voyage to the scrapyard

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The plans to launch Global Dream II, one of the world's largest cruise ships, have been scrapped after its builders filed for bankruptcy earlier this year. The hull of the ship will make its maiden voyage to the scrapyard, The Guardian reported.

 

A 9,000 passenger cruise will make its maiden voyage to the scrapyard
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Wow!

 

Expired tags?

 

The US Air Force Once Tried Landing Bombers On Tank Treads – It Didn’t End Well

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OMG!!!

This guy was totally off his rocker and then some.

Spoiler

 

August 5, 2017

https://news.usni.org/2022/06/11/marine-corps-identify-5-killed-in-southern-california-mv-22b-crash

 

RIP Chris Darnell