the "Headline That Caught My Attention or the WTF" thread

Odd that I've never heard of this thing:

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Odd that I've never heard of this thing:

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Really? I can remember back to at least the 80’s. They started putting up Halloween and Christmas decorations and charged way to much to drive through.

Odd that I've never heard of this thing:

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I haven’t been there in a few years, but I used to love to go there

[URL unfurl="true"]https://nypost.com/2025/09/30/us-news/how-24-year-old-illegal-migrant-anthony-labrador-was-caught-through-one-phonecall/[/URL]

[URL unfurl="true"]https://nypost.com/2025/09/30/us-news/how-24-year-old-illegal-migrant-anthony-labrador-was-caught-through-one-phonecall/[/URL]

The ones the believe themselves to be normal, are so blatantly gullible. Deport every single one of them, no mercy.

Wow. :eek:

This just keeps getting louder and funnier. First ICE busts the guy, now it turns out he doesn't actually have a degree.

[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2025/09/30/dmps-superintendent-ian-roberts-claimed-doctoral-degree-morgan-state-university/86431683007/[/URL]

Doesn't anybody do any background checks? Da fuq?

[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/driverless-cars-tickets-happened-bay-100000504.html[/URL]

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I see a potential conflict of financial interests here when somebody has their self-driving cat bring them home from a tavern.

All of these things represent a potential massive loss of revenue to law enforcement and insurance companies.

I see a potential conflict of financial interests here when somebody has their self-driving cat bring them home from a tavern.

All of these things represent a potential massive loss of revenue to law enforcement and insurance companies.

or it could go the other way...................

There maybe no driver but the vehicle is registered to someone. Whomever that is - should be the fined entity.

I see a potential conflict of financial interests here when somebody has their self-driving cat bring them home from a tavern.

All of these things represent a potential massive loss of revenue to law enforcement and insurance companies.

Could be the municipality didn’t legally change what was allowed. A no u-turn could have been just put there without due process. Have you ever seen a posted speed limit different than what’s posted on a vehicle navigation? They’ll be blaming the mapping world.

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WTF????!?

[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/3-old-finds-live-wwii-144033460.html[/URL]

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Department of Building had their Annual BBQ fest at Governor’s Island on Tuesday… kabooms…
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But wait.... There's more!

Criminal record too..

[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.foxnews.com/us/dhs-reveals-extensive-criminal-history-former-des-moines-superintendent-arrested-us-illegally[/URL]

well this can't be a good thing....................

[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/researchers-reanimating-40-000-old-180638503.html[/URL]

[HEADING=2][SIZE=7]Wreck of Shackleton’s Endurance Tied to Culprit Other Than Ice[/SIZE][/HEADING]
The explorer’s journey to Antarctica was likely doomed before it began.

[IMG alt="A person wrapped in protective winter gear stands with some sled dogs resting on an ice floe. In the distance, masts rose from a distant ship stuck in the ice."]
The Endurance, in the background, stuck in ice in August 1915 during the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition led by Ernest Shackleton. In the foreground, a dog sled team on a food-gathering expedition. Credit...Frank Hurley/Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, via Getty

On Oct. 27, 1915, after being caught and crushed by packed ice for nine months in the Weddell Sea off Antarctica, Ernest Shackleton and his crew abandoned the Endurance and their quest to traverse the frozen continent by land. The doomed ship drifted atop the ice for three more weeks before finally sinking.

For over a century, experts have put the blame for the ship’s demise on an ice floe overwhelming the rudder and creating a large gash in the vessel. But [a study]('https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/polar-record/article/why-did-endurance-sink/6CC2C2D56087035A94DEB50930B81980') released Monday in the journal Polar Record contends that the ship, not the ice, was to blame. The Endurance was ill equipped for its mission, a flaw that Shackleton was aware of long before he launched to Antarctica.

[Jukka Tuhkuri]('https://www.aalto.fi/en/news/ice-scientist-jukka-tuhkuri-embarks-on-seven-week-expedition-to-the-antarctic-topics-of-study'), an ice researcher and naval architect at Aalto University in Finland and author of the new study, was aboard Endurance22 with the team that [discovered the wreck in 2022]('https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/09/climate/endurance-wreck-found-shackleton.html'). As a side project, he began analyzing diaries, personal correspondences and the ship’s wreckage to find out why the Endurance sank.

A year and a half later he was staring at images of what had been described as the strongest wooden ship ever built in the archives of the Royal Geological Society in London. A hypothesis came to him.

“It’s not the ice, it’s the ship,” Dr. Tuhkuri said.

He noticed that the hull of the Endurance lacked the beams that would have given it enough brawn to endure an onslaught of crushing ice. As a result, the rudder, stern post and part of the keel were torn apart, causing the ship to fill rapidly with water.
[IMG alt="A black-and-white portrait of Ernest Shackleton, with some smudges and other imperfections on the print."]
Ernest Shackleton during the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914 to 1917.Credit...Frank Hurley/Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, via Getty Images

While Shackleton wrote in his book “South: A Memoir of the Endurance Voyage” that it was insurmountable ice floes that doomed his ship, the study suggests that he knew otherwise. He wrote to his wife, Emily Shackleton, that “this ship is not as strong as the Nimrod constructionally,” referring to the wooden vessel Shackleton took on his 1908 Antarctica expedition.

Endurance, a touring ship built for hunting polar bears and walruses in the Arctic, was “designed to work at the edge of the pack ice but not to be frozen in,” said [Walter Ansel]('https://www.thewoodenboatschool.com/faculty-staff/walt-ansel/'), the senior shipwright at Mystic Seaport Museum, in Mystic, Conn., who was not involved in the study.

Not only was Shackleton aware of Endurance’s shortcomings, but he also had the expertise on how to fix them. He had helped the German polar explorer Wilhelm Filchner equip his ship Deutschland with the same structural beams that Endurance lacked. Later, in 1912, Deutschland drifted in the ice-packed Antarctic waters for eight months but survived.

The paper notes five ice compression events taken from the diaries of crew members, building up to a culminating event on Oct. 17. One crew member, Reginald James, wrote that “the pressure was mostly along the region of the engine room where there are no beams of any strength.” Capt. Frank Worsley described the engine room as “the weakest part of the ship.” Both entries, dated to Oct. 17, describe a ship being crushed by ice because of its structural inadequacies.

The American whaling fleet had repeatedly run into similar catastrophes. In 1876, 12 inadequately reinforced ships were lost as a result of compressive ice near Alaska, Mr. Ansel said.

[Michael Bravo]('https://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/people/bravo/'), a professor at the Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge, who was not involved in the study, said many polar exploration ships were not suited for their journeys. Such vessels were seldom readily available. “Most of them were purchased second hand and adapted as time and money permitted,” Dr. Bravo said.

Indeed, this could have been true of Endurance, suggests Michael Smith, author of the book “Shackleton: By Endurance We Conquer,” who was not involved in the new study. Shackleton may have known that the ship wasn’t ideal for the voyage. But he was restless at home, and struggling with financial debt and a failing marriage.

“The scale of this expedition is truly daunting, but he needed something to get his teeth into and he wanted to get away,” Mr. Smith said. He added that Shackleton was competing with other explorers to conquer the Antarctic.

Still, Mr. Smith doubts this will change our view of Shackleton. Historians knew already that he was a man who took chances and made big calls under pressure. The grave risks of these missions were known to the explorers.

“To be a polar explorer a century ago was an act of faith in itself,” Mr. Smith said.

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