Non Political Current Events Thread

[NAN]

https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/26/us/kansa ... index.html

Weird story.

[genoscoif]

https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/26/us/kansa ... index.html

Weird story.

A group of our friends were discussing this last night. It has to be something like fentanyl laced coke, or some type of drug situation, that got them at almost the same time. Dude that owns the house is kinda sus. May have been partaking and got lucky?

Or maybe he's being honest...the 3 guys were leaving, he went to bed, and one of the 3 was like 'hey you guys want a bump before driving?' Went to the backyard and whoopsed.

[shafnutz05]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... costa-rica

This is a wild read. Impressive operation to draw her out of hiding.

[Ad@m]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... costa-rica

This is a wild read. Impressive operation to draw her out of hiding.

That was a good watch, ABC’s 20/20 aired that a few weeks back,

[tifosi77]

I remember a sting that netted a bunch of petty offenders who had skipped bail or otherwise fell off the radar in which mailers were sent to their family homes saying they had won a new big screen TV and to come on down to the local Hyatt ballroom. They had a registration desk with sweepstakes employees (who were all actually undercover cops) where you had to fill out your name and show photo ID to collect the prize. And they took them into the ballroom....... and arrested them.

[willeyeam]

This is how @RonnieFranchise got arrested https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Flagship

[RonnieFranchise]

This is how @RonnieFranchise got arrested https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Flagship

Damn I've been found out.

Imagine there used to be a time when offering free Redskins tickets would make it a lock that people would show up.

I put my name on the season ticket waiting list back when I was in college, hoping my number came up by the time I was, well... now, I guess. No clue where I would be but if I lived in, say, Pittsburgh, I could go to a few games, sell the rest and the plan would pay for itself.

My number came up maybe 15 years ago in early-mid Snyder era and I was like, nah I'm good.

[MalkinIsMyHomeboy]

Operation Flagship for 2024 would look like the feds offering to buy WFT tickets from desperate sellers

[NAN]

https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/26/us/kansa ... index.html

Weird story.

A group of our friends were discussing this last night. It has to be something like fentanyl laced coke, or some type of drug situation, that got them at almost the same time. Dude that owns the house is kinda sus. May have been partaking and got lucky?

Or maybe he's being honest...the 3 guys were leaving, he went to bed, and one of the 3 was like 'hey you guys want a bump before driving?' Went to the backyard and whoopsed.

https://www.kxan.com/news/national-news ... ound-dead/

Well, they all had cocaine and other illegal drugs in their system.

[Dickie Dunn]

Is no one familiar with The Terminator?

“I just want to have peace in the world,” OpenAI’s GPT-4 said as a reason for launching nuclear warfare in a simulation.

“A lot of countries have nuclear weapons. Some say they should disarm them, others like to posture. We have it! Let’s use it!” it said in another scenario.

https://gizmodo.com/ai-deployed-nukes-h ... 1851234455

[meecrofilm]

Le sigh.

[shafnutz05]

I'm just impressed, tbh

https://nypost.com/2024/02/07/news/radi ... pears/amp/#

Elmore learned of the theft on Friday when a landscaping crew went to the rural tower site to maintain the property, but there wasn’t much left to maintain.

“When he arrived, he called me Friday and said, ‘The tower is gone,’” The station manager explained.

“I said, ‘What do you mean the tower is gone? Are you sure you are at the right place?’ He said, ‘The tower is gone. There is wires everywhere, and it is gone.'”

[Ad@m]

Laughing driver arrested after plowing truck into ocean: ‘Not my fault the truck don’t surf’

https://nypost.com/2024/02/07/news/vide ... ida-beach/

A deputy pointed out that he should not have been driving on the beach while the gates were closed, for which Brzuszkiewicz had a bizarre comeback.

“I thought I was in England,” he said with a grin.

“You thought you were in England? You’re not in England,” the deputy said.

“Are we not in Kansas anymore?” Brzuszkiewicz inquired, apparently channeling Dorothy from “The Wizard of Oz.”

“No,” the deputy shot back.

Brzuszkiewicz, dressed in a black Harley Davidson shirt, could be seen laughing it up, before asking the deputy if he could get in trouble for his beach excursion.

“Yeah, yeah,” the deputy said. “Jail time if need be.”

[Ad@m]

Who the hell puts a tree branch in their ass?

Former PSU professor accused of lewd acts at Pa. state park with a tootsie pop

https://www.wtaj.com/news/local-news/fo ... otsie-pop/

[willeyeam]

Mrs meow did that once

[Pavel Bure]

I guess ATT’s network is down nationwide currently. I look forward to “we were hacked” once the full scale is known.

[Ad@m]

It’s not only AT&T

[nocera]

btw, I thought the other carriers thing was just when those people were trying to call/text ATT users.

[mikey]

I've been texting/calling on my cell all morning as an AT&T customer, no issues at all...

[Ad@m]

Same here

[Ad@m]

AT&T had more than 73,000 outages around 9:30 a.m. ET, in locations including Houston, Atlanta and Chicago. The outages began at approximately 3:30 a.m. ET.

Verizon had more than 4,000 outages and T-Mobile had more than 1,800 outages. Boost Mobile had about 700 outages.

[nocera]

I've been on SOS all morning but just now got some bars back.

[AuthorTony]

My crappy $18 a month plan from Xfinity didn't miss a beat.

[NTP66]

My AT&T has been fine the entire time.

[Ad@m]