Is a sign required?
You know the corner of River St. and whatever that side street is parallel to the Charles, in Cambridge? It is legal there.
There was only ONE recorded homicide in New York City on 9/11.
What, the WTC deaths were manslaughter?
From the wiki of the victim, Henryk Siwiak,
In Melbourne, Australia, we have a few remaining intersections where “hook turns” are mandated. You pull over to the side of the intersection, wait for the lights to change, then proceed with the traffic.
Those few intersections are so that you don’t block the trolley cars while stopped in the middle of the intersection, waiting for oncoming traffic to clear. It’s only a few places, more places just have turn lights and separate traffic cycles for turning cars and trams.
Anyway, I was told, dunno if it’s true, that originally all intersections in Victoria were like that. Or perhaps all intersections with trams? There was no legal cross-traffic turn at all. You had to pull over, stop, wait, then proceed across the intersection.
Just the opposite. It’s just like right turn on right: it’s allowed by default unless a sign forbids it.
But there are only a limited number locations where it’s possible, and it doesn’t apply to New York City.
It seems that the US Army is now issuing robotic dogs to security forces. I think they call them droids, but the article picture showed a thing with what appeared to be four legs.
Jack the Ripper was in the midst of his notorious crime spree when Ninetendo - the maker of the Mario Brothers games - was first incorporated.
In the James Bond movie “Dr. No” (1962) - a Francisco de Goya painting of the Duke of Wellington, stolen in August 1961 from London’s National Gallery, is found on an easel next to the stairs in Dr. No’s dining area, which is why Bond stops to notice it as he passes it while going up the stairs. It was recovered in 1965. The thief was found guilty of theft - not of the painting, but the frame. (thank you, IMDB).
A “speedy” escape from wartime death:
He studied tap dance and became a drummer, despite being born with brachydactyly caused by Poland syndrome, which made three fingers on his left hand significantly smaller than those on his right hand.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Burghoff
The amount of blood shed on Alderaan could paint The Death Star.
The Empire – We Cover the World
Sherwin Williams | Logopedia | Fandom.
I’m sure they had this in mind when they made that visual.It even has the same number of “splashes”
Reminds me of a 1970s issue of National Lampoon, wherte they had a comic book scene in a Communist cell, and they had a poster with that logo up on the wall. Only instead of “SWP”, it had a Hammer and Sickle.
I want to know how it occurred to anyone to make this weird comparison.
Wow! There’s some major tech here and they recover (most of?) them, get video footage, spray thieves with fart/skunk smell…
Yeah… the kit they have in there looks a lot more interesting and valuable than most things a thief might hope to find in a stolen package.
I did something similar in LJ once. There had been an ad circulating for 300:Rise of an Empire, and the voiceover said “The Greeks will fall. Only stout wooden ships can save them… and a tidal wave of heroes’ blood.” So, I looked up how many gallons were in a tidal wave. The best I could find was a site for a water park that featured a tidal wave, and it claimed the volume was something like 300,000 gallons. I converted gallons to pints, found how many pints of blood are in a typical human body, divided the number of tidal wave pints by typical human pints, and looked up the casualties of the Battle of Salamis. I remember the figures were actually pretty close.
I thought the guy admitted to faking his videos, but I guess it was only some pieces that were admittedly fake.
Thanks for posting that. I had heard of the glitter bomb but never saw the original. Quoting from CNBC:
Rober said he removed a minute and a half of the footage from the original video after learning that some of the “thieves” were actually acquaintances of the person he asked to help plant the packages on doorsteps. Rober said he agreed to compensate the person, who was a friend of a friend, based on the number of packages that were successfully recovered. The YouTuber later learned his helper recruited two people to collect the packages on tape. Three apparently real reactions remain in the video, Rober said.
Hopefully version 3.0 has weeded out the fakes.