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The world is filled with strange and interesting events. Sometimes they're not worthy of a whole thread, or getting lost to the rapid fire pace of [Chat] threads, and thus, this repository was created to house them.
While not a hard and fast rule, the finest additions to previous threads have at least made an effort to express how something might not be good (perhaps even bad) news, that then twists in a positive fashion (perhaps even going right).
So we're on revision 2 of the 2019 edition of the thread, how will the Act 2 of the years wild and weird news go? Will we manage to astound one another and share in the oddity? How often will we have to ask Hedgie "how in the ever loving fuck is this 'gone right'?"? Is the punctuation on that last line highly questionable? (yes, yes it is)
An example to start us off;
Bad news: dog manages to get itself 135 miles out to sea.
Gone right: It was rescued by workers on an oil rig, who intend to find the owner, or adopt it if none can be found.
I'm also now realizing that Huffpost Weird News is probably where half our stuff is hijacked from.
The previous thread
While not a hard and fast rule, the finest additions to previous threads have at least made an effort to express how something might not be good (perhaps even bad) news, that then twists in a positive fashion (perhaps even going right).
So we're on revision 2 of the 2019 edition of the thread, how will the Act 2 of the years wild and weird news go? Will we manage to astound one another and share in the oddity? How often will we have to ask Hedgie "how in the ever loving fuck is this 'gone right'?"? Is the punctuation on that last line highly questionable? (yes, yes it is)
An example to start us off;
Bad news: dog manages to get itself 135 miles out to sea.
Gone right: It was rescued by workers on an oil rig, who intend to find the owner, or adopt it if none can be found.
I'm also now realizing that Huffpost Weird News is probably where half our stuff is hijacked from.
The previous thread
First they came for the Muslims, and we said NOT TODAY, MOTHERFUCKER!
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They have a tag labeled "Life's Rich Pagent" that sums things up.
Good News: That practice had been banned in four states. Marking tires to enforce parking rules declared unconstitutional:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/marking-tires-to-enforce-parking-rules-declared-unconstitutional-in-four-states/
Everything about this confuses me.
It’s not a very important country most of the time
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What a weird ruling.
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Basically, the panel said that marking a car to track how long it's been there is not meaningfully different from attaching a GPS to it to see where it goes, which SCOTUS ruled unconstitutional w/o a warrant in 2017.
The WaPo article that covered it also noted that in the age of smartphones, it probably isn't neccessary either; you could just take a photo of the tire (reason why it's the tire, other than chalkability, is so you can tell if they have moved or not since then) on the first pass and just compare when you return.
Yeah, I was having as much fun as the lawyer that came up with that argument. From the sound of it, they make the leap from GPS monitoring to chalking in a single bound.
I think even the attorney has said something to the effect of, "I didn't quite expect the argument to work this well this quickly."
Like, I don't really care one way or another, I'm just kind of confused by it lol
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If you were by your car, sure, but most people probably aren't.
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It’s not a very important country most of the time
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And also different in every other way
Something and cheese
Not sure what
Also something about trespassing on their property without a warrant. Since they had to physically touch the car to mark it.
Marking tires with chalk has been a thing for a long time in plenty of jurisdictions. The classic response isn't even to wash it off, just roll your car forward or back six inches so the chalk isn't visible any more. Or just, y'know, not overstay your parking.
If anything, this ruling is going to encourage more of that shit I've heard about, where computers in cop cars are constantly taking pictures of license plates and running them for possible violations. That definitely seems like a violation of rights.
The only thing that would make that more Australian is if the pig got eaten by a Croc at the end.
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Gone right: Murder bird now available for adoption! (may not find you funny)
The whole look of the bird is kinda goofy, which makes people miss this fact.
Anyway, I'm glad authorities aren't just automatically putting down the cassowary; there aren't many of the birds left.
Dogs usually get put down because there's a surplus of pets to begin with. Exotic pets or stage animals are usually put in zoos or sanctuaries, though. Sigfreid and Roy's tiger Mantecore lived in a sanctuary the rest of its life.
The one exception tends to be circus elephants, because once they're on a rampage, stopping them humanely while also protecting the public isn't always an option - circuses themselves tend to rely on handlers who are the first ones hurt, and police aren't generally equipped to stop an animal of that size any other way (sometimes not even that way).
So wary.