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It may be "weird", but it most certainly isn't "news", the story being from five years ago.

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https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/loud-fart-gives-away-suspects-hiding-spot-leads-to-arrest

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CLAY COUNTY, Mo. (FOX 9) - When tracking down a suspect, law enforcement might use a K-9 to track down a scent.

This was not necessary for a recent arrest in Missouri.

According to the Clay County Sheriff's Office, over the weekend, Liberty police were searching for a person who a felony warrant for arrest. The person was wanted for possession of a controlled substance.

The suspect hid to avoid police, but apparently let out a fart so loudly, it gave up their hiding spot.

 

 

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On 7/15/2023 at 2:46 PM, sunday said:

Ah, a practical jokes lover.

"Practical jokes" are only jokes if they're conducted between those who consent to them. Once you've been told to stop, you're an asshole and a bully (some redundancy there). Consider the murderous clown "prank" that apparently resulted in the clown getting what he deserved - although some of the instances available on social media are probably staged for the "clout", there are real cases where the "clown" has been stabbed, or beaten, and deservedly so.

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2 hours ago, DB said:

"Practical jokes" are only jokes if they're conducted between those who consent to them. Once you've been told to stop, you're an asshole and a bully (some redundancy there). Consider the murderous clown "prank" that apparently resulted in the clown getting what he deserved - although some of the instances available on social media are probably staged for the "clout", there are real cases where the "clown" has been stabbed, or beaten, and deservedly so.

Mostly agree. It also could be that something that was tolerable at the beginning of the expedition was getting more and more unwanted.

Still, I think you are quite right.

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It has to do with Trump, but I think it fits the category of weird news better.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/lost-israeli-antiquities-said-to-reemerge-in-trumps-florida-residence/

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Israel has discovered that a set of ancient pottery lamps that it lent to the White House for a temporary exhibit in 2019, and which it has been trying to recover, ended up in Mar-a-Lago, the Florida residence of former US president Donald Trump, according to a report Tuesday...

...It is unclear how, in the subsequent three-and-a-half years, the lamps ended up in Trump’s Florida residence, but Israeli officials recently got confirmation of their presence there.

 

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https://stanforddaily.com/2023/07/19/stanford-president-resigns-over-manipulated-research-will-retract-at-least-3-papers/

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Stanford president resigns over manipulated research, will retract at least three papers
Marc Tessier-Lavigne failed to address manipulated papers, fostered unhealthy lab dynamic, Stanford report says

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“At various times when concerns with Dr. Tessier-Lavigne’s papers emerged—in 2001, the early 2010s, 2015-2016, and March 2021—Dr. Tessier-Lavigne failed to decisively and forthrightly correct mistakes in the scientific record,”  Stanford’s report said, identifying a number of apparent manipulations in Tessier-Lavigne’s neuroscientific research.

The report concluded that the fudging of results under Tessier-Lavigne’s purview “spanned labs at three separate institutions.” It identified a culture where Tessier-Lavigne “tended to reward the ‘winners’ (that is, postdocs who could generate favorable results) and marginalize or diminish the ‘losers’ (that is, postdocs who were unable or struggled to generate such data).”

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Seems a extreme case of the "publish or perish" mentality.

Unsurprisingly, related to the kind of medical research that could bring big bucks.

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Troopers initially said that an oil spill in the roadway caused the crash. They later said it was human waste.

According to investigators, Joseph’s Mack truck towed a trailer with an unsecured load which leaked the human waste over the lanes of the highway.

As a result, the roadway was slick. 

Human waste spill leads to several spinouts along I-95 in Bridgeport (wfsb.com)

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1 hour ago, Leo Niehorster said:

I've been molested by a rabid beaver ...

The feisty one from Morocco? 😄

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