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I’m just trying to imagine how the story tip came in. “People, a group of people, come to our neighborhood at night.”

“I’m not sure that’s a story for us”
“Well, they have flashlights”
“Don’t move I’ll be there with the van”

I’m seriously totally at sea here

I'm wondering if the lights at night came from ... newscameras?

Not local to me now but a few miles from where I grew up. Everyone used to call this town STRANGE RANGE for a reason

https://www.uppermichiganssource.com/content/news/Sheriffs-office--569576961.html

My local rag trying out new adjectives

Officers say the paramedics were treating a burly man when he suddenly lashed out and hit one paramedic with a crutch and threw another over a couch.

beware the burly man

paramedics were treating a hurdy gurdy man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6yXTAZKoyE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8Jx_Hq4J-Y

http://mindfulconstruct.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Burlyman-sticker-001-196x300.jpg

Love the local interest angle here

https://www.ayrshiredailynews.co.uk/post/south-ayrshire-golf-club-owner-loses-2020-presidential-election

Donald Trump, a South Ayrshire golf club owner, has lost the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden

Classic Scottish local newspaper journalism.

An Annapolis woman said she could have been killed had it not been for the infamous “penis house.”

Melissa Shanker wasn’t planning to go out on Dec. 12, but she left her home on a whim — just before it burned to the ground — to see the home in Cape St. Claire that went viral on social media.

“The penis lights kept her from harm,” said Mary Newman, Shanker’s friend. “It was a Christmas miracle.”

The Green Holly Drive house Shanker rented the basement for herself and her 6-year-old daughter was already collapsing by the time firefighters got to it at 10:37 p.m. Fifty-five firefighters from five departments assisted in extinguishing the flames. One suffered minor burns and was taken to John Hopkins Bayview Medical Center.

Shanker left earlier that night when a friend asked to go check out the phallic light display. When they couldn’t find it, the women went back to Shanker’s house and were just about to head inside when she said another friend called saying she knew where the house was and asked for a ride.

When they got to the home on Ramblewood, Shanker and her friends were disappointed to see the rooftop display was not lit and they decided to head back to her place. That’s when Shanker’s roommate called and told her he had just escaped the burning house.

The home was a total loss, Shanker said, with nothing salvageable.

Shanker said she would have been asleep with her daughter on a normal night, and fears they would have been injured or worse her daughter not been there that night.

“Had we not been out looking for the Cape Penis house who knows what kinds of injuries myself and friends could have sustained,” Shanker said.

“Now, knowing that it could have saved our lives I’m more determined than ever to see the penis house relit.”

Capt. Russ Davies, spokesperson for the Anne Arundel County Fire Department, didn’t want to speculate about what could have happened had Shanker been home.

Investigators suspect the cause was an unattended wood fire or fireplace started on the back porch. Shanker and her friends may have found it earlier had they been home, Davies said, but all he knows now is she’s safe.

“It was a serious, fast-moving fire,” Davies said. “They certainly would have been in danger. By not being in the house, at all that definitely removes the risk.”

Heh. Just came here to post that. For context:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CIYfmQ2pIvL/?utm_source=ig_embed

https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/131354640_114156307216105_6053515224115782788_n.jpg?_nc_cat=103&ccb=2&_nc_sid=09cbfe&_nc_ohc=kHPYPNm8vAAAX9dMsIk&_nc_ht=scontent-iad3-1.xx&oh=d5a092219237545db2095b759989ab64&oe=6003C654

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i've already shared this with 5 people, thanking u

miracle on 69 street

the funny thing, to me, is that as capt. russ davies implied, had they been home they might have been able to extinguish the fire. so the penis house may be to blame for her house burning down.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-55912864

Giant snake discovered in Greenock street dies

Police said they had no information about pictures of a different dead snake, said to have been found near the town, which have been circulating on social media.

You can't expect the authorities to keep up with everything.

is this the kind of town that you can become the mayor of by virtue of rolling into town with new rumors of a THIRD dead snake?

i saw it, clear as day, also near town, just like the other. it was dead

Nah, its probably more of a Shelbyville dead snake anyway

lol deems

local FB traffic has gone as high as 14 snakes in various parts of town and in varying health

it's like when there's a mass shooting and it takes 2 hours to determine that it's almost always just the one lone wolf/snake

I also saw at least one Sam L Jackson meme in passing

As if people need any more reasons to avoid Greenock.

xp black snake mon

Here's why it's important to support local news.

https://i.imgur.com/Dxg9nVM.jpg

300-500 hectares of moorland are on fire near Antwerp after a shooting exercise by Belgian army whose only fire truck on the domain isn't available because it's being repaired (plus, the only two people who were licensed to operate it have retired five years ago)

https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2021/04/23/brand-groot-schietveld-brecht/

oh, and another "god fucking dammit, what kind of backward hole country is this?" moment: while the whole Belgian population is on continued lockdown/unable to travel we have just casually let 43 Indian medical students travel here. From a country with its own Covid variant that's wreaking havoc there.

https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2021/04/22/indiase-variant-verpleegkundestudenten-aalst-en-leuven/

Guess what? 22 are infected.

so beyond fucking stupid

https://the32789.com/2021/06/26/local-issued-trespass-warning-over-to-go-salad-order/

restaurant seems dumb, but I don't enjoy the 'victim's' attempt to make himself an insta-celebrity and take a selfie with the kawps

soon to be a major motion picture

Unhinged obituary (written by a relative no doubt) of a notorious local slumlord

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/madison/name/ray-peterson-obituary?id=34030193

MADISON - Ray Peterson, a World War II Navy Veteran (the Navy meant a lot to him) and graduate of the University of Wisconsin, ambitiously driven business owner who was still working running his rental business, 96 year old father of five children, six grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren, faithful husband of Joy Curtis Peterson for 64 years, born December 16, 1924 to Alice and Russell Peterson, died December 15, 2021, a day before his birthday from cardiac arrest, four months after Pfizer mRNA vaccine acquired at routine appointment where Dr. said she would even give it to a 2 year old. He had been hospitalized for injury and suspected heart attack after being found on his floor at home December 6, 2021.

Ray was preceded by his wife, Joy in death and is survived by their children: Debbie (Hoppy), Dawn (Larry), Danette (John), Mark and David; grandchildren: Michele (Jorge), Kristin (Kevin), Amanda, Kenneth (Queenie), Hoppy Jr. and Shaun; great-grandchildren: Jaylin, Braeden, Bryce, Samantha, Kingsley, Makenzie, Makaila and Makyle. Ray's parents; brother, Ralph and sister, Barbara preceded him in death. His nieces and nephews are now numbering more than 50 and are increasing exponentially.

Ray's grandma, Ida Peterson guided him to purchase his first house at age 17, before he went to war serving in the United States Navy and subsequently graduated from University of Wisconsin that he and Joy married a month after. They had met at young adult dances and Ray taught ballroom at Arthur Murray Dance Studio. He and his dad built a ski jump in Michigan. Joy was once supposed to see Ray in a ski jump competition but he hurt his arm or shoulder in the practice run so he didn't compete. When Joy went to visit him in the hospital, she said she fell in love with his strong arms. He taught himself to play guitar and enjoyed playing it and singing Johnny Cash songs especially, he also loved diving off diving boards.

Ray's professional failing Madison marginal rental housing service directed toward the Madison homelessness, with Joy's stressful office management of her husband's business that when she retired their daughter, Danette, assumed and with him gone she was left to manage.

The acceptance of Ray's body was refused by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School, Anatomy Department, being his and Joy's final wishes giving to those they believed to be most in need, due to him dying with Covid he tested positive for upon hospital admittance without symptoms being their reason for not treating it, except to place in Covid ward not allowing any visitors and only began adding Covid treatment after being hospitalized for a week, though they stated as early as day after hospitalized he is confused and doesn't know where he is that's common with Covid. His breathing began requiring oxygen initiated December 12, followed by finally treating the Covid December 13 with steroids, besides Remdesivir that wasn't successful but instead detrimental, nor was our request pleading with them to try monoclonal antibodies or Ivermectin under Right To Try Act, as the Covid exacerbated after not startng treatment when diagnosed. When he was desperately ill December 14, he was still able to respond he wants any measures taken to keep him alive, sadly as he would have said his treatment was discombobulated. His hospitalist Dr. said of Covid vaccinated patients he treats who've had resulting heart problems, average occurrence of hospitalization is 4-5 months after Covid vaccine. Thankfully, the compassionate UW body donor coordinator picked up Ray's ashes, looked up the private area on campus of land restoration where Joy's ashes were placed he remembered handling and placed Ray's with hers.

His memorial service will be Saturday, July 23, 2022 at 3:00 p.m. at VFW Day Post 7591, 301 Cottage Grove Rd., Madison, WI 53716, followed by gathering for fellowship and food.

Helping families understand challenges and improve their ability to support their service member or veteran; NAMI works to educate, advocate, listen and lead to improve the lives of people with mental illness and their loved ones. nami.org.

96 year old gets covid vaccine, dies within a year. coincidence??????

don't be insensitive, who has ever heard of a 96 year old man dying from anything other than vaccine injury?

Some organisation has created a list of "registered frituristen" (it's a Belgian thing, a shop where you buy Frites/french fries etc) and the article about the ones in the city I live in has the most "You are only here because of the photo" look ever (sorry for cookies etc): https://www.hln.be/in-de-buurt/dit-zijn-de-32-erkende-frituristen-uit-de-regio-mechelen-en-de-kempen~a7b218ca/208836888/

That's an impressive fry shelf!

that's how they all look :-)

https://www.google.com/search?q=frituur&source=lnms&tbm=isch

Talkin' about this thing!

https://i.imgur.com/UriDnkw.png

yes, every frituur has that, is what I wanted to show with that google image link :-)

This is the fourth time in a year that this blind guy who lives in my neighborhood gets hit in the face by low hanging signs. They just don't follow procedure (= hanging them at least 2 meters high) - he describes the experience as someone punching him in the face.

https://images0.persgroep.net/rcs/gFXrBsIfONUCo7eTmpCqhfZEKLI/diocontent/220181299/_fill/675/900/?appId=21791a8992982cd8da851550a453bd7f&quality=0.9

https://www.npr.org/2022/09/03/1120933654/pilot-threatens-crash-tupelo-mississippi-walmart

Mississi911

Plane is down now in a field near Ashland (north central MS).

I did demand what news from Shrewsbury.

— Willy Shakes (@IAM_SHAKESPEARE) October 4, 2022

The centre of the #galaxy tastes like raspberries, smells like rum, and is full to the brim with alcohol. We're not joking... @DMorris_Star investigates. #Space #Spacefactshttps://t.co/R2prHnzfMN

— Shropshire Star (@ShropshireStar) October 4, 2022

I meant to post this one a while ago. My old local booze shop:

https://www.brightonandhovenews.org/2022/07/28/brighton-shop-can-keep-selling-drink-after-court-backs-deal-with-council/

Featuring the classic excuse "he had been looking after 10 bottles for a friend and that they had mistakenly ended up on the shelves in his shop".