How exactly did lightning kill 323 reindeer in Norway?

Not a lot of info, don't get your hopes up.

I wonder how many got away? You can see the extent of the lethal shock with all of them in a neat circle.

I'm not sure I'd want my reindeer pre-cooked.

It was completely explained. Same principle also explains why an adjacent power strip does not protect electronics.

I just figured the reindeer were being emotional children...

85% of problems are directly traceable to Santa.

Clearly they were only having a tantrum.

Too bad DanaC doesn't live here. We may have a developing career field for her in academia. It's off to a rocky start though:

:D

British woman accidentally dials Massachusetts police to report crash in England
 

Audio of the call + article here: Masslive.

Since this report surfaced over here, more information has emerged which rather dilutes the weirdness factor:

BBC Report

Yeah, that qualifies as weird, alright.

And now we've gotten to the heart of the centralized or outsourced emergency call center controversy.

Thank God for the War on Drugs.

I bet the people of Thurmont, Maryland feel a lot safer now...

Undercover operation, in which officer worked at Burger King, netted 5 grams of marijuana, 2 pills

Almost two months of undercover work to get those couple grams of drugs off the street.

The most expensive war ever. :rolleyes:

If you can skip through good times for two months with ANY list of hourly BK employees, and not score more weed than that, you are probably not a very good, or a very undercover, undercover cop.

Five grams and they found felony charges to make it all worthwhile. what heroes

Professional house-moving company was moving a house to a new location in downtown Austin. Professional house-moving company did not measure the width of the streets they were traveling down. House got stuck. House stayed stuck for 6 days, until city approved a special bond to pay to cut it free.

Then professional house-moving company got the same house stuck in Kyle.

This does not smell right.
 

Breaking News: Google to Donate Its Search Engine to the American Public

:eyebrow:

Gee, I hope porn doesn't become illegal. :lol:

Charities are exempt from Do Not Call Registry restrictions. You'll be getting some phone calls. For a charitable contribution they'll be from your favorite porn sites.

It could happen!
 

Erin Hatzi’s husband assumed his wife wasn’t home on Tuesday when he didn’t see her car on the driveway or in the garage. But when he stepped inside, there she was. Surprised, he asked where she had parked. “In the driveway,” she responded, confused by his question. “Nope!” he replied. Panic started to set in. It was 9:30 p.m. and her red 2001 Subaru Impreza was missing.

The Portland, Oregon, couple frantically checked security footage from a camera located outside of their garage. Sure enough, around 7 p.m., they saw a woman get into the car, back out of the driveway and zoom off. So, they immediately called the police. “We were pretty angry and astounded that the car was taken directly from our driveway,” Hatzi told CBS News.

But less than 24 hours later, the car reappeared. And it turns out, the whole thing appears to have been a giant mixup.

They pieced together the story after police stopped a woman who drove up to the house in the missing Subaru Impreza. Hatzi’s husband happened to pop his head out the front door as police were making their stop.“He told them that the car belonged to his wife and that it was stolen from the driveway they were standing in front of,” she said.

As he examined the car, he spotted a note and some cash tucked underneath the windshield wipers. In it, the woman gave her name and phone number, and explained: “Hello, So sorry I stole your car. I sent my friend with my key to pick up my red subaru at 7802 SE Woodstock and she came back with your car. I did not see the car until this morning and I said, ‘that is not my car.’ There is some cash for gas and I more than apologize for the shock and upset this must have caused you. ... So so sorry for this mistake.”

At first Hatzi thought this couldn’t possibly be true — it seemed so far-fetched. But as the police investigated, they confirmed that the woman’s story checked out.

An officer explained that in some older model Subarus the keys can be interchangeable, which is likely how someone mistakenly drove off with the wrong vehicle.

“I was very relieved and then it was mostly amusement and disbelief that something like this could happen,” Hatzi said.

...aaaand the theft rate of older model Subarus goes through the roof.

In 1959 there was a '58 Chevy blocking the 4-H cattle barn loading ramp at the Eastern States Exposition. Asking people walking by if they drove a Chevy, it took less than five minutes to find a key that would work so we could move it.

Surprisingly enough, the same is true of modern trucks.
Mine has one of two dozen keys. No, they do not have chips or lasers or anything advanced like that.

Semis are as easy to steal as lawn tractors.

Yes, they cost as much as a house but have the security of a garden shed. Amazing. :facepalm:

What happens if it is a convertible?

When I first worked at the pizza place in 1995 or so, our boss had just bought himself a new sports car, don't know what kind but it was new. The Asian nail place next door was friendly with us, and the man running it owned a piece of shit car that was roughly 10-15 years old. The key to the piece of shit car worked on the new sports car, and they moved it a few times to fuck with him before admitting what they'd discovered.

Heh...They go through their own roof, creating the 2016 Subaru Inception.

:D

Possibly NSFW (Text only)
 

I thought carefully before posting this, given that the woman in the principal role suffered injury.
However, the weirdness quota was high enough to convince me.

metro.co.uk

I have several issues with that article.

The least of which is "...no flammable materials were in the operating theatre during the surgery..." and then, "...eventually reaching the surgical drape and causing the fire..."

So, was there flammable stuff in the O.R., or not? Was the surgical drape in the O.R.?

And there's this:

Ever lit a fart? Ever seen it done? Not the easiest thing in the world, not particularly difficult, either. The fart definitely will not ignite if allowed to leak out into the room, it has to be pretty much contained to the vicinity of the escape portal. Otherwise the world would have exploded a long time ago. And I have never heard of anyone being harmed by lighting a fart.

Now, I do have a couple of other questions:

Isn't there usually OXYGEN in an operating room?

Isn't OXYGEN extremely flammable?

:eyebrow:

Don't spoil it with scientific facts! ;)

:D

In that context they may be drawing on the distinction between definitions for flammable and combustible materials which is regulated by both national and international safety organizations. Items that are categorized flammable (e.g. ether) catch fire more easily than items that are categorized combustible (e.g. surgical drapes which cover the patient around the operating area).

Oxygen is not flammable. It's required as an oxidizer for something that will burn (that which constitutes a fuel); but, oxygen alone does not. Exposing something already burning to more oxygen will increase the combustion rate and therein lies the danger with oxygen tanks. It can cause a lit cigarette to flame up and when dropped set clothes on fire.

Doesn't oxygen expand rapidly when heated - IE the containing tank will explode if heated. Some mistake that for it being combustible.

Only the same as something inert like Argon.

I can see most people would assume an exploding tank as combustion.

Weird news?

Um, check.

Woman becomes pregnant twice after having sex only once

Funny thing about those whore-moans.

I'd heard about this, but just bothered to look it up:

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Potential world-record nontypical buck taken in Tennessee

I think that he used an unfortunate choice of words in there.

That looks like nascent antler tumor.

Or it escaped from a deer farm.

Whew, good thing he killed it...can't have mutant deer running around all willy-nilly. :right:

It looks like a fucking cedar stump.

Non-typical antlers are known to occur in wild deer populations and can range from a single "drop tine" on one or both antlers to the infamous Hole In The Wall buck. There are whole galleries of non-typical antlers, including the highest-scoring on the Boone & Crockett scale of measurement in every species recorded. In the wild they're uncommon, typically dying young or failing to breed due to tangling their antlers in brush or other antlers. On deer farms they're bred for multi-point tendencies. That mule deer wouldn't fetch a big stud fee from a farm, believe it or not. Look up "non-typical farmed buck" or something similar and see what kind of craziness you find!

My bad-checked the source material on that buck and he's not a muley. They're mostly western, though they may be expanding eastward. Interesting side note: DNA analysis has shown that the mule deer is a hybrid! About 8,000 years ago a group of whitetails and Sitka blacktails decided to start intermingling, and the result is the modern mule deer.

What are 'drop bears' and why is one town naming a street after them?

:lol2:

Follow-up on an internet story about an Arizona grandmother who accidently tweeted an invitation for Thanksgiving dinner to a stranger along with her family's invitations and the stranger replied asking if he could still come: :)

http://www.msn.com/en-us/video/peopl...EJ?ocid=HPCDHP

love that

WTF? If he had already cleared security but they had a problem with his bag, why would pat him down instead of the bag?
I'm glad I don't fly anymore, I'd never make it on the plane. :eyebrow:

Its not news. But is a curiosity.
Surfing

West Ham fans name post man of the match in victory over Hull

I've heard it said that Offense wins games, Defense wins championships. Well, here's some more weird "football" news as proof of that aphorism:

Seattle Sounders FC win MLS Championship 2016 match without recording even a single shot on goal during regulation time and overtime.

Ikea says illegal teenage sleepovers must end

Problem is, all the kitchen stuff will be packed away, so no meatballs when you get hungry.

Fools!

Now it's going to go viral with copycats and they are going to have to hire teams of employees to open each cabinet in every store and make sure it's empty.

Which is what they want, for teenagers to believe IKEA is cool and spend lots of harmless, playful time in there--"OMG guys, you know what? This bed is pretty comfortable!"--as if it were their own idea.

Except when a bunch of hooligans eventually get high in there and trash the place, they'll wish they hadn't tried to turn this into a secret marketing campaign.

Nah, motion detectors and or sniffing dogs, followed up with unrelenting pressing of charges and paying off local prosecutors to take the families to the mat would get the word out quick enough that it is a bad ikea to sleep at Ikea.

see what I did there?

Its Trump's fault. He's creating jobs all over the world!

Somewhere we discussed the plastic rice, I don't remember where, and I said they confiscated several tons in Africa. Here's the result...

I suspect it was stolen somewhere along the way.

link

It was the Snap, Crackle, and Pop gang.

At least it will create employment opportunities, right? Although "Nighttime anti-teenager Ikea patrol" might look weird on a resume.