After “glitter bomb,” cops arrested former cop who criticized current cops online
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So far, the two species that have fucked 'em up the most have been bunnies and flightless birds...
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Where I'm from the things that are most likely going to kill you are bears and the weather. And I'm not too worried about a bear making a stealth attack on my wedding tackle while I'm on the toilet.
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"Nice party, huh?"Ars is headquartered in Chicago, right? Can you dispatch a beat reported to stay on top of this?
"Sure is! So what do you do?"
"I work for Ars Technica, a venerable and well-respected tech and science blog."
"Fascinating! What do you write about?"
"I'm on the glitter desk."
". . . ."
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Luckily the guy was smart enough to not change the Donut order.
Was his name Gary?
Was his name Gary?
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It's amazing to see how USA went from advanced technological democracy to retarded middle ages police state. They really need USSR ASAP to drag them forward. Oh wait...
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I’m trying to figure out the geometry of a black widow sized spider hiding under the toilet seat and then biting you on the dick. All I can come up with is “he knows you’re not supposed to have your dick touching the underside of the seat, right?”
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A lack of emotional maturity can be very valuable in climbing a hierarchy. Being a vicious egomanic under a thin veneer of responsibility is a real advantage. Same as it ever was, those who are possessed by the desire for power are the least suited to wield it.
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Are we sure it was bad luck? Maybe he's hoping one day his colleagues will try and suck out the venom.
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Sounds like everyone with any responsibility is part of the "You scratch my back..." club, they will delete everything. The out of town lawyer they bring in to defend the civil suit will shout "Settle!" and walk out again.
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It's a redback - they don't even give you anti-venom by default as it's almost as nasty as the venom is on the system - they keep you under observation to see if you're going to die first.
And Australians are actually taught the proper treatment for venomous bites at a pretty early age because the spiders aren't a real risk, but the damned snakes definitely are. Nobody here is going to suck venom out. If he wanted his willy wrapped tightly in bandages, he can do that himself.
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Water in an Australian toilet is much lower than in a US toilet, so there's plenty of room for the spider to just sit there. In a portaloo or an outhouse there's plenty of opportunity for bugs to be attracted to the smell and so make a good feeding site for the spider, so its supposed to be normal practise to check before sitting.
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Most people don't try and ride bears, but they fall off and get trampled by horses all the time...
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So far, the two species that have fucked 'em up the most have been bunnies and flightless birds...
Cane toads and foxes too. No wonder we're rather serious on biosecurity now, when it's rather too late.
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Yeah. That’s not the issue though. They think he was bitten by a spider that really isn’t all that big and doesn’t jump. And he claims to have looked carefully, first, so it probably isn’t that he was sitting in the middle of its web, which would otherwise be a possibility considering how black widow webs are built. So he had to have his Johnson pretty much right up against an interior surface of the toilet.
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Acts of bad faith is the start of the path towards hurt and rage. They are always premeditated, which means perpetrators had time to think about it, and their brain was unable to reason them out of it.
Aren't there versions where they are not to be inhaled at?
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That's what ya'll get for not keeping Crocodile Dundee contained in your own borders, mate. Seriously, the only land borders ya'll have are with more australia - how hard could it be?
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Being from the UK, I see an unfortunate connection with SeanJW's link, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-37481251
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Clearly he didn't look carefully enough. Toilet seats are common enough sites for them that there's even a song about it. Sitting down will certainly get you close enough to annoy a spider.
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Oh man thank goodness the court didn't create an entire legal theory out of thin air that gives police immunity from civil rights suits decades before that ruling. If they had that whole thing would just be another time that Scalia was a lying piece of shit.
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The DA should be blamed for taking the case, not for losing the trial. Unlike cops DAs have law degrees, so they're supposed to be constitutionally well versed. But that DA pressed charges for constitutionally protected speech. The judge should have fined them for wasting their time.
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some people can get distracted by other things and then plan a heist to steal the toilet itself instead: £4.8m Golden Toilet Heist.
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A classic would have been to order a huge number of assorted donuts to be delivered to the police station anonymously via burner email, uber eats, and a pre-paid CC.
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I have had the weather make a stealth attack mind you. There's nothing like those polar vortexes whistling down the vent pipe and up about your bits to make you reconsider some life choices.
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I know cops liking donuts is a stereotype, but would they really be pissed to get free snacks? Or by huge did you mean a truly unreasonable amount of donuts?
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It's not bad, but it's hard to beat the classics, such asBest headline ever
Gordon Ramsay's Porno Dwarf Doppleganger Dies in Badger Den
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My favorite headline is from the early 80's, National Enquirer or similar rag:
JACKIE GLEASON HAS AN ALIEN IN HIS FREEZER
JACKIE GLEASON HAS AN ALIEN IN HIS FREEZER
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The three acts mentioned were:
1) Satirical social media page
2) Glitter bomb
3) Anonymous tip to prompt call from suicide hotline
The first is certainly not criminal, there are clear precedents about the protection of satire as free speech.
As for 2 and 3, if there was any evidence linking those acts to the same perpetrator as 1, it was not reported in this article.
And none of these were particularly harmful; a call from a suicide hotline certainly wouldn't be as dangerous as swatting.
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1. Thin skinned
2. A sense of importance and to be ‘right’
3. Usual misuse and corruption of the system.
2. A sense of importance and to be ‘right’
3. Usual misuse and corruption of the system.
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A "classic" Chicago hotdog is with mustard, relish, onions, tomato, pickle, hot peppers, and never ketchup. Donuts they get a free snack, dogs with ketchup they get a free "fuck you" from the kitchen staff and delivery driver.
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The really dissapointing part is that most other major news outlets DON'T cover this story.
The sharp rise in fascism needs to be covered EVERYWHERE
Don't you agree?
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Sent them the "Chicago" deep dish from Gordano's or Lou Malnati's.
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