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The wheel came off a car traveling along Route 1 in South Brunswick, bounced on the divider and smashed through the window of the dump truck which was going the other direction, the South Brunswick Police said in a tweet.
The driver of the dump truck was not injured as the wheel went into the passenger side of his cab, police said.
Bad news: woman collapses at home. The only help are her three children, the oldest being a four-year-old.
Gone right: Four year old is "OK, fine, whatever, I've got this" calls 911 and manages to relay the situation accurately. Then unlocks the door and herds the family's dogs away from the door so they won't get in the way. There's a soundcloud recording of the 911 call and she's completely calm.
A video filmed this week in Lopburi, north-east of Bangkok, showed large crowds of monkeys brawling in the streets, apparently fighting over a yoghurt pot. Residents in the city, which is famed for its monkey population, say the fall in tourist numbers means there are far fewer people offering food.
“It’s the summer, so usually we see a lot of tourists, but now because of the outbreak there’s so few that the markets are very quiet. Not enough tourists come to leave food for the monkeys at Prang Sam Yod [temple],” Sasaluk Rattanachai, who posted a video of the brawl online, told Khaosod English.
The monkeys are known for marauding the streets and stealing food from residents and unsuspecting tourists. Scraps between the monkeys are not uncommon, but a brawl of this size is rare, prompting one Thai reporter to attempt a vox pop with the local monkeys.
Each troop has at least 500 members, according to Manad Vimuktipune of the Lopburi Monkey Foundation. They’ll steal anything, he said: “Colourful ornaments, caps, sunglasses.” There are fewer tourists in the city, he added, and there is not enough food being offered.
The best part of waking up is probably not Folgers on the road.
According to a post from Marion Fire-EMS, crews responded to the northbound lanes on Interstate 81 on Tuesday afternoon for a crash involving two tractor-trailers.
When units arrived, they found a strange sight; coffee canisters and their contents strewn across the roadway.
We live in unprecedented times, so add this to the record book: There were no arrests in Butte on St. Patrick’s Day.
So folks, that means no one was caught driving under the influence, no one underage was charged with being a minor in possession, there were no fights that led to arrests, and as for disorderly conducts — zilch on that one, too.
According to Butte-Silver Bow Undersheriff George Skuletich, residents obeyed the law.
The lack of arrests is a first for Skuletich, who has been in law enforcement for the past 35 years.
“It’s the easiest we have had it,” he said.
Butte - an old school mining town that has a 24 hour bar - is notorious for St. Patrick's Day celebrations that get wild. To have that quiet a day - it shows how serious everything is.
A pair of Darth Vaders strode up the aisle of the Cascade County District Courthouse in Great Falls Friday to the opening drumbeats of the Imperial March.
Where the prosecuting attorneys normally sit, twin lightsabers stood on the desk, ready for battle.
On a television screen that usually displays criminal hearings and trial evidence, Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope played in its full high-definition glory.
The title couldn’t be more appropriate because the day marked new hope for 12-year-old Alex Reyes, who was finally being adopted after multiple foster homes and a year with Pamela and Philip Reyes.
And in the jury box, nearly a dozen siblings of all ages waited for Alex to become an official part of their family.
"Nearly a dozen siblings" is causing me some side-eye
I guess if the kid is genuinely happy though, go them
I know.someone who is the single biological child of someone who started fostering, and ended up adopting. She ended up with something like 11 siblings.
"Nearly a dozen siblings" is causing me some side-eye
I guess if the kid is genuinely happy though, go them
I know.someone who is the single biological child of someone who started fostering, and ended up adopting. She ended up with something like 11 siblings.
When I was a kid I used to be in a outdoor life youth organization. The chapter leader was this archetypical Green-party woman. Mid-30s, drove a VW-van, dressed like it too (all Fjällräven). She had 2 kids of her own. She had started as a fostermom, but had by that time adopted 5 more for a total of 7 siblings.
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With families that end up getting heavily involved with fostering, there's a good chance several of those siblings are adults now who'd been adopted at various ages in their childhoods. You're not starting at year 0 with all of them and older kids need families too.
This all reminds me of an episode of House of all things. The dialog was something along the lines of:
"She was adopted when the parents thought they couldn't have kids. Then they ended up having 3 more. She takes the message as 'Thanks for playing, but we have our real family now.'."
"And the real kids probably think they're accidents while she was hand picked. Everybody has issues with their parents."
I always thought that was a pretty good version of "Everybody always thinks the grass is greener on the other side".
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This all reminds me of an episode of House of all things. The dialog was something along the lines of:
"She was adopted when the parents thought they couldn't have kids. Then they ended up having 3 more. She takes the message as 'Thanks for playing, but we have our real family now.'."
"And the real kids probably think they're accidents while she was hand picked. Everybody has issues with their parents."
I always thought that was a pretty good version of "Everybody always thinks the grass is greener on the other side".
My previous boss had a good follow up to this, "Until they get over there and realize that is because it is growing on top of a septic tank"
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There's not even anything to 'side-eye' about this: the kid obviously got adopted into a family that wanted and loved him. Some families find their purpose into continuing to foster - they don't stop just because one of those adopted kids grew up. "Whelp, we'd sure love to help out another kid without a family, but, y'know, got a lifetime limit of two kids only."
There's not even anything to 'side-eye' about this: the kid obviously got adopted into a family that wanted and loved him. Some families find their purpose into continuing to foster - they don't stop just because one of those adopted kids grew up. "Whelp, we'd sure love to help out another kid without a family, but, y'know, got a lifetime limit of two kids only."
You hear occasional, possibly (probably?) apocryphal horror stories about couples who adopt a ton of kids for tax benefits and then abuse and neglect them. And then there's the quiverfull movement, which is absolutely deserving of side-eye - but kids in those families aren't usually adopted, afaik. Still, huge families tend to be associated with the kind of religious folk whose idea of godly parenting is what the rest of us recognize as physical and emotional abuse.
edit: not saying there's anything shady here, just that the knee-jerk response is somewhat understandable
There's not even anything to 'side-eye' about this: the kid obviously got adopted into a family that wanted and loved him. Some families find their purpose into continuing to foster - they don't stop just because one of those adopted kids grew up. "Whelp, we'd sure love to help out another kid without a family, but, y'know, got a lifetime limit of two kids only."
You hear occasional, possibly (probably?) apocryphal horror stories about couples who adopt a ton of kids for tax benefits and then abuse and neglect them. And then there's the quiverfull movement, which is absolutely deserving of side-eye - but kids in those families aren't usually adopted, afaik. Still, huge families tend to be associated with the kind of religious folk whose idea of godly parenting is what the rest of us recognize as physical and emotional abuse.
edit: not saying there's anything shady here, just that the knee-jerk response is somewhat understandable
That's not usually adopting, it's fostering. You're not going to make enough in tax benefits (at least in the US) to offset keeping a kid alive year to year.
From the social workers I've talked to abusive fostering is also super uncommon though. The most common form of abusing the foster/adoption system is just flat out fraud with foster homes fostering non-existent kids.
The Quiverfull movement is another can of worms entirely and is (thankfully) small enough that it's kinda only note-worthy because of how fucked up it is.
You get the one horrible case that makes the news, then every crime show does an episode based on it, which get spaced out across a couple of years and makes it seem like a more common thing.
I dunno, even absent any abuse, we try to keep school class sizes small to make sure students are not neglected accidentally. Having large numbers of children will either lead to some being neglected just due to limited parental resources or other children having to become proxy parents as well, which is also a bit unfair to them.
Again, worthy of a bit of side eye, but not necessarily casting aspersions on the parents or the family
Bad news: herd of buffalo at Yellowstone decide they want to be on the news and head towards the reporter on camera.
Gone right: reporter moves his ass to a safe distance, proving himself smarter than many tourists who visit Yellowstone.
Anybody who laughs at this man for his reaction has clearly never seen a buffalo up close. They are big, powerful, and quite capable of utterly destroying a person entirely by accident.
The only reason I saw some up close on our vacation to Yellowstone was the herd decided it was their turn to use the road, and any cars in the way were welcome to get out of the way.
There's not even anything to 'side-eye' about this: the kid obviously got adopted into a family that wanted and loved him. Some families find their purpose into continuing to foster - they don't stop just because one of those adopted kids grew up. "Whelp, we'd sure love to help out another kid without a family, but, y'know, got a lifetime limit of two kids only."
You hear occasional, possibly (probably?) apocryphal horror stories about couples who adopt a ton of kids for tax benefits and then abuse and neglect them. And then there's the quiverfull movement, which is absolutely deserving of side-eye - but kids in those families aren't usually adopted, afaik. Still, huge families tend to be associated with the kind of religious folk whose idea of godly parenting is what the rest of us recognize as physical and emotional abuse.
edit: not saying there's anything shady here, just that the knee-jerk response is somewhat understandable
Adoption isn't going to get you enough benefits to get anywhere, you can't even neglect a kid enough to turn a profit from the child tax credit even ignoring that adoption is usually an expensive process. Government fostering programs with a sufficient stipend you can usually *just* make it but most states put heavy scrutiny on households with lots of kids (foster or otherwise) looking to foster, a lot of abuse and neglect doesn't come from people using them to turn a profit but because a lot of kids in the system are troubled or special needs and a lot of families are not up to the task of taking them in.
Quiverfull are not fostered or adopted, they're old fashioned home-made babies. The name comes from a bible verse that reads like a dick joke. It's basically an attempt by certain leaders in the Christian right to out-breed the liberals. It is a breeding ground for abuse and neglect, but even here it's just as likely to be horrific attitudes at the core, as the Duggar family so gloriously demonstrated.
Bad news: herd of buffalo at Yellowstone decide they want to be on the news and head towards the reporter on camera.
Gone right: reporter moves his ass to a safe distance, proving himself smarter than many tourists who visit Yellowstone.
Anybody who laughs at this man for his reaction has clearly never seen a buffalo up close. They are big, powerful, and quite capable of utterly destroying a person entirely by accident.
The only reason I saw some up close on our vacation to Yellowstone was the herd decided it was their turn to use the road, and any cars in the way were welcome to get out of the way.
Bad news: herd of buffalo at Yellowstone decide they want to be on the news and head towards the reporter on camera.
Gone right: reporter moves his ass to a safe distance, proving himself smarter than many tourists who visit Yellowstone.
Anybody who laughs at this man for his reaction has clearly never seen a buffalo up close. They are big, powerful, and quite capable of utterly destroying a person entirely by accident.
The only reason I saw some up close on our vacation to Yellowstone was the herd decided it was their turn to use the road, and any cars in the way were welcome to get out of the way.
The replies to the first tweet are mining that video for some amazing meme material.
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Gone right: Four year old is "OK, fine, whatever, I've got this" calls 911 and manages to relay the situation accurately. Then unlocks the door and herds the family's dogs away from the door so they won't get in the way. There's a soundcloud recording of the 911 call and she's completely calm.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/19/us/4-year-old-girl-calls-911-and-saves-her-mom-trnd/index.html
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Butte - an old school mining town that has a 24 hour bar - is notorious for St. Patrick's Day celebrations that get wild. To have that quiet a day - it shows how serious everything is.
Alone no more: People are turning to dogs, cats and chickens to cope with self-isolation
More people bringing home lonely animals is a really good thing!
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I guess if the kid is genuinely happy though, go them
I know.someone who is the single biological child of someone who started fostering, and ended up adopting. She ended up with something like 11 siblings.
When I was a kid I used to be in a outdoor life youth organization. The chapter leader was this archetypical Green-party woman. Mid-30s, drove a VW-van, dressed like it too (all Fjällräven). She had 2 kids of her own. She had started as a fostermom, but had by that time adopted 5 more for a total of 7 siblings.
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
"She was adopted when the parents thought they couldn't have kids. Then they ended up having 3 more. She takes the message as 'Thanks for playing, but we have our real family now.'."
"And the real kids probably think they're accidents while she was hand picked. Everybody has issues with their parents."
I always thought that was a pretty good version of "Everybody always thinks the grass is greener on the other side".
My previous boss had a good follow up to this, "Until they get over there and realize that is because it is growing on top of a septic tank"
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You hear occasional, possibly (probably?) apocryphal horror stories about couples who adopt a ton of kids for tax benefits and then abuse and neglect them. And then there's the quiverfull movement, which is absolutely deserving of side-eye - but kids in those families aren't usually adopted, afaik. Still, huge families tend to be associated with the kind of religious folk whose idea of godly parenting is what the rest of us recognize as physical and emotional abuse.
edit: not saying there's anything shady here, just that the knee-jerk response is somewhat understandable
That's not usually adopting, it's fostering. You're not going to make enough in tax benefits (at least in the US) to offset keeping a kid alive year to year.
From the social workers I've talked to abusive fostering is also super uncommon though. The most common form of abusing the foster/adoption system is just flat out fraud with foster homes fostering non-existent kids.
The Quiverfull movement is another can of worms entirely and is (thankfully) small enough that it's kinda only note-worthy because of how fucked up it is.
Again, worthy of a bit of side eye, but not necessarily casting aspersions on the parents or the family
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Gone right: reporter moves his ass to a safe distance, proving himself smarter than many tourists who visit Yellowstone.
And then shoots some footage of the bison from said safe distance.
Anybody who laughs at this man for his reaction has clearly never seen a buffalo up close. They are big, powerful, and quite capable of utterly destroying a person entirely by accident.
The only reason I saw some up close on our vacation to Yellowstone was the herd decided it was their turn to use the road, and any cars in the way were welcome to get out of the way.
Adoption isn't going to get you enough benefits to get anywhere, you can't even neglect a kid enough to turn a profit from the child tax credit even ignoring that adoption is usually an expensive process. Government fostering programs with a sufficient stipend you can usually *just* make it but most states put heavy scrutiny on households with lots of kids (foster or otherwise) looking to foster, a lot of abuse and neglect doesn't come from people using them to turn a profit but because a lot of kids in the system are troubled or special needs and a lot of families are not up to the task of taking them in.
Quiverfull are not fostered or adopted, they're old fashioned home-made babies. The name comes from a bible verse that reads like a dick joke. It's basically an attempt by certain leaders in the Christian right to out-breed the liberals. It is a breeding ground for abuse and neglect, but even here it's just as likely to be horrific attitudes at the core, as the Duggar family so gloriously demonstrated.
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The replies to the first tweet are mining that video for some amazing meme material.