Meanwhile in...

[Carruthers]

Originally Posted by sexobon

Your post followed shortly after mine...great minds and all that.

All is now clear!

Many thanks.

[xoxoxoBruce]

It's a shame this is B&W so you can't see the gold.

It weighed less than 250 lbs, but the flooding caused significant damage.

[monster]

Meanwhile in New Zealand....

Man takes clown to redundancy meeting

[sexobon]

...all is not OK:

Teenage waitress arrested for saying she wanted to ‘shoot 400 people for fun' with her new AK-47

A teenage waitress in Oklahoma was arrested after showing off photos of her new AK-47 to a coworker and telling her she was going to shoot up hundreds of people at her former high school. …

… Wilson had been expelled from the high school over violent incidents and was suspended at one point when she was found with a knife. …

… A report said that Wilson told authorities she used to be suicidal and “borderline homicidal to the people of McAlester school because she was bullied.” ...

… Wilson was charged with felony terrorist hoax and is being held in jail on $250,000 bond.

I pity the fools who didn't leave her a tip!

[tw]

Originally Posted by sexobon

I pity the fools who didn't leave her a tip!

If you don't leave a tip, then you have a one minute head start. Leaving others to confront an angry waitress.

Does that make you complicit in their murder?

[Carruthers]

Meanwhile, in Worcester Massachusetts.....

...or was it Worcester, England?

Runner completes 'wrong' Worcester half marathon

A runner who accidentally signed up to the wrong half marathon completed the race distance on the same day - just on the other side of the Atlantic.

Sheila Pereira booked a place at the Worcester City Half Marathon, thinking it was in her hometown of Worcester, Massachusetts.

But the event was 3,200 miles away in the English city of the same name.

Undeterred, Ms Pereira ran 13.1 miles on her own in the US on the same day as the Worcestershire event.

She has been praised by UK organisers, who are sending her a race finisher's pack including a participation medal and T-shirt.

Legendary British athlete Steve Cram, who runs Events of the North, which set up Sunday's event along with Worcester City Council, invited Ms Pereira to the UK for a future edition of the race.

"We organise events throughout the country and some of them do attract entries from overseas," he said.

"Those are usually from runners who are visiting the UK for another reason and have taken the opportunity to take part in a race while here.

"That's what we assumed that Sheila was doing.

"We'd love to welcome Sheila in person next year - I don't know much about Worcester, Massachusetts, but Worcester, England, is a beautiful city and well worth a visit."

Ms Pereira, 42, added: "Participating even though I was some distance from the Worcester City Runs [it] was awesome.

"The love of running crosses boundaries and I hope to have the opportunity to take part in person in the future."

These things happen.

LINK

[xoxoxoBruce]

I wonder how they pronounce it, here it's wus-ter?

[Carruthers]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

I wonder how they pronounce it, here it's wus-ter?

Tis the same here.

[Happy Monkey]

Ask Jeeves™.

[sexobon]

He took a practical joke too far and people got pissed.

[sexobon]

Fuhgeddaboudit.

Germany's Highest Court Rules Convicted Murderer Has the 'Right to Be Forgotten' Online

Germany's highest court decided that a man convicted of murder in 1982 has the right to be forgotten, meaning his name can be removed from online search results.

Also known as the "right to erasure", the "right to be forgotten" rule gives EU citizens the right to request that data about them be deleted.

In a statement released on Wednesday, the judges said that while it was allowable for search engines to provide news reports on current crimes, "the justifiable public interest in reports that made perpetrators identifiable decreased over time."

The man hoping to be forgotten was part of a major news story in Germany in 1982. As a crew member of a sailing ship named Apollonia, the man shot and killed two people and severely injured another following an argument on board. …

… Germany has a long history of data protection, dating back to the 1960s. In 1977, Germany enacted the first Data Protection Act at the federal level. They also have what one newspaper described as "one of the world's toughest laws around hate speech." ...

[henry quirk]

Originally Posted by sexobon

Fuhgeddaboudit.

The only thing that ought to be in the Memory Hole is the Memory Hole.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by henry quirk

The only thing that ought to be in the Memory Hole is the Memory Hole.

True.

[monster]

Meanwhile in California

Penis fish

[sexobon]

SEAL Running for Congress Violates Rules by Showing Up in Uniform, Launches Campaign in Wrong District

It wasn't the best way to start a Congressional campaign. Retired U.S. Navy SEAL Floyd McLendon wore his Navy dress whites to his campaign kickoff in Dallas, Texas in November. Unfortunately, it's against regulation to wear his uniform to such an event—which was held in the wrong district.

His choice to wear his Navy dress whites uniform violated a Department of Defense policy which prohibits members of the Navy and Marine Corps from "wearing uniforms of the naval service while attending or participating in a demonstration, assembly, or activity knowing that a purpose of the demonstration, assembly or activity supports personal or partisan views on political, social, economic or religious issues."

That regulation also applies to retired Navy SEALS, such as McLendon.

McLendon, who is running for a seat in the 32nd Congressional District, kicked off his campaign in the 30th Congressional District.

"I don't know if I can think of a time where somebody kicked off their campaign in some place that wasn't in their district," Lone Star Project Democratic strategist told Business Insider. "And then it would be really outrageous is when they didn't realize it was in their district. They need to have a pretty darn good reason for kicking off their event in a district in another one they're running in." ...