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Police arrest 5 people after finding 4,000 kilos of oranges in their cars

sudshr47 January 31, 2018

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“Step out of the car sir. Are you aware you were driving well over the seed limit? Also your car is full of oranges.”

Police in Seville, Spain, apprehended five suspects on Friday for allegedly stealing 4,000 kilos of oranges.

Police stopped the vehicles when they noticed three cars driving very close together, according to local media.

#PolicíaSevilla denuncia a cinco personas por el presunto robo de 4.000 kilos de naranjas en una nave de #Carmona #Sevilla
+ Info https://t.co/TNHQAQswAV pic.twitter.com/429OAVOHBc

— Emergencias Sevilla (@EmergenciasSev) January 26, 2018 Read more…

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Incredible footage shows firefighter catching child thrown from balcony

sudshr47 January 16, 2018

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If you ever doubted the bravery of firefighters (for argument’s sake, because why would anyone do that) let this video be the living proof that they are, in fact, heroes.

On Monday DeKalb County Fire Department released helmet-cam footage, showing the moment when a firefighter caught a child who was thrown off the third story of a burning apartment building on 3 January in Decatur, Georgia. 

This wasn’t the only child to be thrown from the building. 

“We were catching babies like a football — literally,” County Fire Rescue Capt. Eric Jackson told the Atlanta Journal Constitution. Read more…

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Culture High School Other

This Twitter thread about ‘The Incident’ in your high school is utterly fantastic

sudshr47 December 26, 2017

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High school! It’s an utterly insane four year slog of pressure and social anxiety and hormones. At some point during the high school tenures of so many, that pressure releases in the form of An Incident. And if you’ve ever wanted to read all of these stories, now you can. 

On Monday night, Buzzfeed writer Katie Notopoulos Tweeted out a simple question:

What was “the incident” in your high school?

— Katie Notopoulos (@katienotopoulos) December 26, 2017

And oh, the responses she got (which as of this writing is 1,825, and doesn’t even count manual “response” retweets).  Read more…

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RIP: The country’s most tragic Christmas tree has died

sudshr47 December 19, 2017

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Better luck next Christmas, Rhode Island.

The Christmas tree in the rotunda at the Rhode Island statehouse has died, the Associated Press reported Friday. The pine’s demise comes after it lost a shocking number of needles over the last month, which by this week had blanketed the fake snow around its trunk. 

It was a sad — and not very Christmas-y — sight to behold.

Image: Michelle R. Smith/AP/REX/Shutterstock

Despite originally insisting that the deteriorating specimen would not be replaced, officials cut its remains down early this week. Read more…

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Ambulance gets called out for figure in park, turns out to be a statue

sudshr47 December 13, 2017

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We know better safe than sorry is the old adage, but if you call an ambulance out for a statue this idiom loses its wisdom a bit.

An ambulance in the UK received a call about a person in a park. The caller was worried that they were sitting perfectly still and covered in snow. It turns out there was a very good reason for that.

Next, call from a member of the public who was concerned that there was someone sat on a bench, not moving and covered in snow!
Luckily, on our arrival, it turned out to be a statue! 🙈👍🏻🚑 pic.twitter.com/mIBHmse4DF

— Katie Tudor (@wmaskatietudor) December 11, 2017 Read more…

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Bitcoin is a victim of its own success

sudshr47 December 8, 2017

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It was never meant to be this way. 

With the price of Bitcoin skyrocketing by the hour, it’s either time to buy buy buy or step back a moment and ask ourselves just exactly how Bitcoin went from a proposed digital currency to an increasingly popular investment opportunity — and what that says about its future. As this is a blog post and not the internal dialogue of a cryptocurrency trader, we’re going to go with the second option. 

Launched in 2009 by a still unknown person (or persons) under the pseudonym of Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin offered a decentralized currency that removed any sort of central authority from the mix. This, of course, is a fascinating idea — and over the following few years news outlets reported on it with a mixture of confusion and befuddled amusement (if they covered it at all). Read more…

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This newspaper’s epic headline fail is a copy editor’s worst nightmare

sudshr47 December 6, 2017

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Ever write something just as a place-holder just so you could come back to it later? [witty example here].

A local paper in the UK had what could honestly be a copy editor’s anxiety dream come to life.

Front page ready to go? You checked it?
Yeah, it’s good@CambridgeNewsUK pic.twitter.com/YqazwkQ7ZZ

— Gareth Marlow (@GarethMarlow) December 6, 2017

To be fair, “100 pt splash heading here” sounds like a major scoop.

If you think you’re having a bad day, just think how the editor of the Cambridge News must be feeling….😱

— Jacqui Oatley (@JacquiOatley) December 6, 2017 Read more…

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