The only water that runs through New York's Dutchess County is the Hudson River, known for Northern Pike, Atlantic Sturgeon and the occasional odd whale. So authorities became curious when they learned a Dutchess County man was selling sharks.
It turned out that Joshua Seguine had been keeping live sharks in a pool at his home and offering them for sale on the internet.
Seguine, 40, was convicted Wednesday in LaGrange, New York, of illegal trafficking and ordered to pay a $5,000 fine. He pleaded not guilty.
“The tide has turned for Joshua Seguine, who was convicted and held accountable for his unlawful acts,” said New York Attorney General Letitia James. “We will not tolerate anyone who preys on protected species to line their pockets.”
A German police bomb squad called to investigate a suspected hand grenade in a Bavarian forest has revealed that the object was a rubber sex toy.
A jogger reported finding a bag containing the device on Monday in a forest outside the city of Passau, near Germany’s borders with Austria and the Czech Republic.
The discovery of forgotten or hidden munitions is a regular occurrence in Germany more than 75 years after the end of the second world war.
When the bomb squad arrived and inspected the contents of the bag, they determined it was a rubber grenade replica. The condoms and lubricant in the bag helped point to the device’s intended use, police told the German news agency dpa.
“An internet search confirmed the suspicion,” police said. “There are actually sex toys in the form of hand grenades.”
Re: Weird Headlines
Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2021 3:19 pm
by Suranis
Guys... if you need a frigging hand grenade to make sex fun, maybe you should revaluate what you actually want out of sex or whether sex is right for you at all...
Re: Weird Headlines
Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2021 5:13 pm
by zekeb
Suranis wrote: ↑Tue Apr 27, 2021 3:19 pm
Guys... if you need a frigging hand grenade to make sex fun, maybe you should revaluate what you actually want out of sex or whether sex is right for you at all...
Well Suranis, I just got out of the "more you get, the more you want" phase just a mere few months ago.
Re: Weird Headlines
Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2021 7:10 am
by Foggy
Suranis wrote: ↑Tue Apr 27, 2021 3:19 pm
Guys... if you need a frigging hand grenade to make sex fun, maybe you should revaluate what you actually want out of sex or whether sex is right for you at all...
I don't know about you, Mr. Irish Smartypants, but here in 'Merika we use guns as substitutes for large penises. How big a jump is it from that to hand grenades?
' Course, it's Germany. Ya never really know about Germany.
Suranis wrote: ↑Tue Apr 27, 2021 3:19 pm
Guys... if you need a frigging hand grenade to make sex fun, maybe you should revaluate what you actually want out of sex or whether sex is right for you at all...
I don't know about you, Mr. Irish Smartypants, but here in 'Merika we use guns as substitutes for large penises. How big a jump is it from that to hand grenades?
' Course, it's Germany. Ya never really know about Germany.
I suppose a hand grenade is more likely to give the feeling of the earth moving than a gun but one really needs to use something with greater explosive force. Anything from a C4 demolition block to a small thermonuclear device seems more appropriate depending on the desired experience.
Suranis wrote: ↑Tue Apr 27, 2021 3:19 pm
Guys... if you need a frigging hand grenade to make sex fun, maybe you should revaluate what you actually want out of sex or whether sex is right for you at all...
I don't know about you, Mr. Irish Smartypants, but here in 'Merika we use guns as substitutes for large penises. How big a jump is it from that to hand grenades?
Guns and pickup trucks.
Off Topic
As far as the Germans being obsessed with things that go "boom," let's just bear in mind that a lot of "energetic materials" research (i.e., finding new things that go "boom") takes place there, including work contracted by the US military. One scientist over there with whom I am vaguely familiar - being, as I am, a font of useless knowledge - is Thomas Klapötke, whose Wikipedia page includes this charming tidbit for those initiated:
A flavour of the "exciting" nature of his research interests comes from the "Things I Won't Work With" thread of the Chemistry blog "In The Pipeline", which introduces that day's topic thus: "But remember, N-amino azidotetrazole is the starting material for the work I'm talking about today. It's a base camp, familiar territory, merely a jumping-off point in the quest for still more energetic compounds. The most alarming of them has two carbons, fourteen nitrogens, and no hydrogens at all, a formula that even Klapötke himself, who clearly has refined sensibilities when it comes to hellishly unstable chemicals, calls exciting. ... The compound exploded in solution, it exploded on any attempts to touch or move the solid, and (most interestingly) it exploded when they were trying to get an infrared spectrum of it."
For context, and those who don't know this bit of chemistry: Nitrogen atoms are just dying to triple bond with another nitrogen to form N2 gas, and they release quite a lot of energy in the process. More nitrogens, in other words, means more bang.
In other words, by German standards, a grenade seems fairly tame and serene.
Re: Weird Headlines
Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2021 1:26 pm
by qbawl
Suranis wrote: ↑Wed Apr 28, 2021 7:15 am
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A herd of dairy cows is credited with helping authorities nab a suspect after a 13-mile chase Monday night in Wisconsin.
The police pursuit began in Barron and continued through the rural area until it ended on a farm with the driver coming face to face with the cows, according to the Barron County Sheriff’s Office.
“We would be remiss if we didn’t thank the Barron County Bovine Unit for jumping into the fray when the vehicle came into their patrol area,” the sheriff’s office posted on Facebook.
The sheriff’s office couldn’t resist a pun.
Re: Weird Headlines
Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2021 8:08 am
by keith
Australian TV has a traditional 'weird headline' roundup on "Shaun McAlleff's 'Mad As Hell'
Re: Weird Headlines
Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2021 10:54 am
by AndyinPA
keith wrote: ↑Wed Jun 02, 2021 8:08 am
Australian TV has a traditional 'weird headline' roundup on "Shaun McAlleff's 'Mad As Hell'
I get message video not available in my country.
Re: Weird Headlines
Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2021 2:46 pm
by northland10
Keith lives down under which is why he can see it but not us.
Re: Weird Headlines
Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2021 3:50 pm
by Jim
Man, that karma has one hell of a sense of humor...
It could be viewed as a dramatic demonstration of the concept of karma: a group of young boaters hurling homophobic abuse towards another vessel flying gay pride flags, then needing to be rescued by their intended victims when their own boat explodes into a ball of flame.
Sunday’s incident on Washington state’s Lake Moses occurred two days before the start of June, which is known as gay pride month because of demonstrations and celebrations centered on the annual pride parades in cities around the world to commemorate the Stonewall uprising for LGBTQ equal rights in New York in 1969.
Video of last weekend’s happenings has gone viral on TikTok, amassing more than 8m views and prompting an investigation by the Grant county sheriff, Tom Jones.
“We got them out of the water safely, we were nicer than they were,” the video’s author posted alongside the clip, noting that the three people rescued, two men and a woman, did not offer any thanks.
keith wrote: ↑Wed Jun 02, 2021 8:08 am
Australian TV has a traditional 'weird headline' roundup on "Shaun McAlleff's 'Mad As Hell'
I get message video not available in my country.
Sorry. Didnt realuze it was geoblcked. May a VPN could make it work?
Re: Weird Headlines
Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2021 7:27 pm
by RTH10260
VPN located in Perth made it appear in the Swiss Alps
Re: Weird Headlines
Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2021 9:52 pm
by Patagoniagirl
Serial Trump Pooper Caught.
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JUNE 3--A 70-year-old Ohio man who told cops he was a “Trump man” confessed to repeatedly urinating and defecating in front of a neighbor’s home because the residents "are Democrats and support Joe Biden," according to a police report.
Jerry Detrick, the accused septuagenarian serial pooper, was cited Sunday for littering after the homeowner caught him in the act around 3:15 AM in Greenville, a western Ohio city."
Patagoniagirl wrote: ↑Thu Jun 03, 2021 9:52 pm
Serial Trump Pooper Caught.
"
JUNE 3--A 70-year-old Ohio man who told cops he was a “Trump man” confessed to repeatedly urinating and defecating in front of a neighbor’s home because the residents "are Democrats and support Joe Biden," according to a police report.
Jerry Detrick, the accused septuagenarian serial pooper, was cited Sunday for littering after the homeowner caught him in the act around 3:15 AM in Greenville, a western Ohio city."
