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

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:oops:?????

[HEADING=2]101-year-old Maine woman may be the oldest person in the world still lobstering[/HEADING]
[101-year-old Maine woman may be the oldest person in the world still lobstering]("https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/207/101-year-old-maine-woman-may-be-the-oldest-person-in-the-world-still-lobstering/97-f51e49dc-bb67-4f87-a320-53b89ae5720d?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot&fbclid=IwAR1ZP2ne5xuYU62IybOv6TlxHPQ_5yqUXbvmbTCRdTieN4yV84XoiVoA8Lo")

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:oops::rolleyes::ROFLMAO:

This country is f'ed

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[HEADING=2]Woman’s death under investigation after boat sinks in Boston Harbor early Saturday morning[/HEADING]
By[ John Hilliard]('https://www.bostonglobe.com/about/staff-list/staff/john-hilliard/?p1=Article_Byline') and Ivy Scott Globe Staff and Globe Correspondent, Updated July 17, 2021, 6:58 p.m.

A woman’s death was under investigation Saturday after a vessel she was on with seven other boaters struck a day marker and sank off Castle Island around 3 a.m.

The eight people on board were thrown into the water when the center console boat went under, the US Coast Guard reported in a statement Saturday afternoon. Seven boaters were rescued by crews from the local agencies that responded shortly after the sinking.

Five of them were sent to area hospitals, according to Boston Fire Department spokesman Brian Alkins. None of the surviving men and women suffered life-threatening injuries, according to Boston Police Sergeant Detective John Boyle.

A body matching the description of the missing woman was recovered from the water by the Massachusetts State Police shortly after 10 a.m., according to the Coast Guard.

The body was transported to the state medical examiner’s office for an autopsy, Boyle said. The woman’s family has been notified, he said, but police are awaiting the autopsy results before publicly releasing her name, as well as the cause and manner of her death.

Boston police’s homicide unit is investigating the woman’s death, along with the Suffolk district attorney’s office, according to standard procedure, Boyle said. In a statement, police asked anyone with information relative to the investigation to contact Boston police homicide detectives at (617) 343-4470.

A reconstruction of the crash will be done by the state Boat and Recreation Vehicle Safety Bureau, Boyle said. He had no information about whether charges would be filed.

Weather conditions recorded at Logan International Airport around the time the boat sank showed clear skies with a visibility of about 10 miles, according to Bill Simpson, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Norton.

The sinking prompted a massive response by multiple agencies including Boston’s EMS, police, and fire departments, along with the Coast Guard, State Police, Environmental Police, and the Massport Fire Department, the Coast Guard said in its statement.

Captain Kailie Benson, commander of the US Coast Guard’s Sector Boston, said in the statement that her condolences go out to the family and friends of the victim, and reminded people to be careful on the water.

“I would like to take this moment to remind everyone to practice safe boating by wearing life jackets, operating at a safe speed, and considering the risk posed by the environment when taking to the water,” Benson said.

The Coast Guard searched the vicinity of Castle Island for approximately 13 hours, it said.

During the search, first responders had set up a command post near the Carson Beach pier. In the distance, a boat could be seen upside down in the water, while rescue vessels were searching about a quarter-mile away.

Around 10 a.m., a diver from the Boston Fire Department’s search-and-rescue boat could be seen going into the water about 100 yards from the tall day marker. One of those markers was surrounded by several rescue boats.

The deadly boating crash comes a day after [three people were rescued Friday by helicopter several miles off the New Hampshire]('https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/07/16/metro/coast-guard-rescues-3-overturned-sailboat-off-portsmouth-nh/?p1=Article_Inline_Text_Link') coast when their sailboat capsized, according to the Coast Guard. Also on Friday, [a Hy-Line Ferry collided with another vessel in Nantucket Harbor]('https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/07/17/metro/hy-line-ferry-strikes-passenger-vessel-nantucket-harbor/?p1=Article_Inline_Text_Link') in heavy fog Friday evening, the Coast Guard said. No injuries were reported in either of those cases.

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Never going to stop.....

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[HEADING=2]Woman’s death under investigation after boat sinks in Boston Harbor early Saturday morning[/HEADING]
By[ John Hilliard]('https://www.bostonglobe.com/about/staff-list/staff/john-hilliard/?p1=Article_Byline') and Ivy Scott Globe Staff and Globe Correspondent, Updated July 17, 2021, 6:58 p.m.

A woman’s death was under investigation Saturday after a vessel she was on with seven other boaters struck a day marker and sank off Castle Island around 3 a.m.

The eight people on board were thrown into the water when the center console boat went under, the US Coast Guard reported in a statement Saturday afternoon. Seven boaters were rescued by crews from the local agencies that responded shortly after the sinking.

Five of them were sent to area hospitals, according to Boston Fire Department spokesman Brian Alkins. None of the surviving men and women suffered life-threatening injuries, according to Boston Police Sergeant Detective John Boyle.

A body matching the description of the missing woman was recovered from the water by the Massachusetts State Police shortly after 10 a.m., according to the Coast Guard.

The body was transported to the state medical examiner’s office for an autopsy, Boyle said. The woman’s family has been notified, he said, but police are awaiting the autopsy results before publicly releasing her name, as well as the cause and manner of her death.

Boston police’s homicide unit is investigating the woman’s death, along with the Suffolk district attorney’s office, according to standard procedure, Boyle said. In a statement, police asked anyone with information relative to the investigation to contact Boston police homicide detectives at (617) 343-4470.

A reconstruction of the crash will be done by the state Boat and Recreation Vehicle Safety Bureau, Boyle said. He had no information about whether charges would be filed.

Weather conditions recorded at Logan International Airport around the time the boat sank showed clear skies with a visibility of about 10 miles, according to Bill Simpson, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Norton.

The sinking prompted a massive response by multiple agencies including Boston’s EMS, police, and fire departments, along with the Coast Guard, State Police, Environmental Police, and the Massport Fire Department, the Coast Guard said in its statement.

Captain Kailie Benson, commander of the US Coast Guard’s Sector Boston, said in the statement that her condolences go out to the family and friends of the victim, and reminded people to be careful on the water.

“I would like to take this moment to remind everyone to practice safe boating by wearing life jackets, operating at a safe speed, and considering the risk posed by the environment when taking to the water,” Benson said.

The Coast Guard searched the vicinity of Castle Island for approximately 13 hours, it said.

During the search, first responders had set up a command post near the Carson Beach pier. In the distance, a boat could be seen upside down in the water, while rescue vessels were searching about a quarter-mile away.

Around 10 a.m., a diver from the Boston Fire Department’s search-and-rescue boat could be seen going into the water about 100 yards from the tall day marker. One of those markers was surrounded by several rescue boats.

The deadly boating crash comes a day after [three people were rescued Friday by helicopter several miles off the New Hampshire]('https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/07/16/metro/coast-guard-rescues-3-overturned-sailboat-off-portsmouth-nh/?p1=Article_Inline_Text_Link') coast when their sailboat capsized, according to the Coast Guard. Also on Friday, [a Hy-Line Ferry collided with another vessel in Nantucket Harbor]('https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/07/17/metro/hy-line-ferry-strikes-passenger-vessel-nantucket-harbor/?p1=Article_Inline_Text_Link') in heavy fog Friday evening, the Coast Guard said. No injuries were reported in either of those cases.

Over the spring, the Town of Oyster Bay (nary an oyster to be seen of course) replaced many of its red buoys with triangular signs on poles. The poles are not lighted, their numbers simply painted in reflective paint on both sides of the triangle (which of course would be all but invisible when approached from the side.) Friends and I are waiting for the first crash, especially with all the ignorant and rude newbies out there this year.

Never going to stop.....

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this is getting so asinine. I guess my calling the pandemic's source as the ch**a virus is a no- no as well. Well wash my mouth out with soap.

Yikes. If I spell China with a capital C does that get to stay ? I wouldn't want to be politically incorrect ya know, lol. Why is it that the Ebola River and the Marburg (village) malady and the incorrectly appropriated Spanish flu get to be so identified ?

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Yikes. If I spell China with a capital C does that get to stay ? I wouldn't want to be politically incorrect ya know, lol. Why is it that the Ebola River and the Marburg (village) malady and the incorrectly appropriated Spanish flu get to be so identified ?

I wonder if we'll be allowed to call it the C**na virus if we confirm it escaped from their lab.

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That large country east of Mongolia that starts with a 'c' paid off the WHO and too much time has passed to confirm the commies were responsible. I have not believed for one second that it "escaped" or was an accident. Sheeple need to read Sun Tsu. I spent way too much time conducting national security background investigations to trust anything regarding either country on either side of Mongolia.

truly WTF

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For once, an editorial from the Portland Paper that makes sense...

[HEADING=2]Our View: Thrifty Mainers should have the ‘right to repair’[/HEADING]
[pressherald.com/2021/07/22/our-view-thrifty-mainers-should-have-the-right-to-repair-2/]('https://www.pressherald.com/2021/07/22/our-view-thrifty-mainers-should-have-the-right-to-repair-2/')

By The Editorial Board July 22, 2021

The thrifty, crafty New Englander is not just a stereotype — research points to a [longstanding culture of repair and reuse]('https://www.centralmaine.com/2021/04/28/our-view-goodwill-shows-waste-a-problem-for-thrifty-mainers/') in Maine that abhors waste, either in material or money.

But actions by manufacturers have made it harder, and in some cases impossible, for anyone but themselves to fix or maintain many consumer products, limiting consumer choice and raising costs.

The Federal Trade Commission [voted on Wednesday]('https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2021/07/ftc-announces-agenda-july-21-open-commission-meeting') to take action against these anti-competitive practices, which strike right at the heart of small business and entrepreneurship. In doing so, the agency is asserting that we all have — to use a phrase from activists — the “right to repair.”

That right never used to be in question. There was a time when the lives of the things we bought could be extended with a few spare parts and some know-how.

But more and more, companies are keeping a tight hold on both those things, forcing consumers to either use the manufacturer’s own repair service, or buy a new product outright. They are purposely designing products to complicate or prevent repair, keeping parts and repair information to themselves, or using software locks to push out the competition.

“Repairs today require specialized tools, difficult-to-obtain parts, and access to proprietary diagnostic software,” an [FTC report]('https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/reports/nixing-fix-ftc-report-congress-repair-restrictions/nixing_the_fix_report_final_5521_630pm-508_002.pdf') said in May.

As a result, the small businesses that do third-party repair are put at a disadvantage, stunting a local industry full of innovators who offer affordable services. And when a product breaks, consumers have few places to go but back to the manufacturer.

So when someone breaks their smartphone — and it’s their only way to access the internet — there’s probably no shop down the street that can get it back to them quickly and cheaply.

Or when schools need laptops for students, they can find it difficult to rebuild old computers themselves, and are forced to buy new ones — if they can find them with the broken supply chains of the COVID era.

The FTC also heard from farmers with broken-down tractors, hospitals with worn-down ventilators, and members of the military with malfunctioning equipment. All of them wanted to do the repairs themselves but were stymied by lack of help from manufacturers.

Opposition to the right to repair, besides from manufacturers looking to preserve this revenue stream at the expense of consumers, comes from concern over safety should the wrong person work on an item. There are certainly safety considerations in some industries, but the FTC report found those worries in general overblown.

The harm to consumers by repair restrictions is just too high to ignore. Americans everywhere rely on these products to get through the day. When one breaks down, they should have more than just one costly option to get it back up and running.

And, besides, in a world full of waste, we should be reusing the things we buy, not tossing them into a landfill every time a problem arises.

We’re sure any thrifty Mainer will agree.

The headline could read, "LI-based Aircraft Dumbs Trash on Maine Golf Course" ;)

[HEADING=2]Aircraft landing gear breaks off, lands on Gorham golf course[/HEADING]
[pressherald.com/2021/07/21/aircraft-landing-gear-breaks-off-lands-on-gorham-golf-course/]('https://www.pressherald.com/2021/07/21/aircraft-landing-gear-breaks-off-lands-on-gorham-golf-course/')

By Dennis Hoey July 22, 2021

A large piece of landing gear from an airplane broke off and plummeted to earth Tuesday night, landing on the seventh fairway at Gorham Country Club.

Sgt. Ted Hatch of the Gorham Police Department, who recovered the landing gear for the Federal Aviation Administration to inspect, said no injuries were reported.

Hatch said the twin-engined Piper Navajo was preparing to land at the Portland International Jetport, but its pilot decided to fly back to New York after he was informed that the airplane’s landing gear was no longer attached.

The Gorham Police Department received a phone call around 6 p.m. from the golf course informing them that a piece of landing gear was on the course. Hatch said he went to the course and recovered the wheel around 7:45 p.m. Hatch posted photos of the landing gear on the department’s Facebook page. He estimated that the landing gear weighed around 100 pounds.

As for the pilot, Hatch said the FAA told him that the plane landed safely at the MacArthur Airport in New York. Hatch said the pilot turned around in an effort to burn off all his fuel before conducting a crash landing. The pilot was not injured.

Hatch said he was grateful that no one was injured from the falling debris.

“Just when you thought you have seen everything, things really do fall from the sky,” Hatch wrote on his Facebook post. “There were 2 miracles in this event. Number one, nobody was struck by this falling object when it fell on the 7th fairway. Number 2, the plane was able to do a belly landing and landed safely in Islip, New York.”

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